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8,737	10,128	There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.	Jessamyn West	communication
3,488	36,594	I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.	Studs Terkel	hope
5,165	38,252	Information is not knowledge.	Albert Einstein	intelligence
11,479	13,020	On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.	Candace Parker	dad
11,628	3,563	Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.	Richard Rogers	architecture
838	56,562	I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.	John F. Kennedy	power
3,285	39,635	Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.	Alban Berg	knowledge
2,544	24,491	Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.	Arnold Schwarzenegger	freedom
11,210	62,294	But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.	Jack Vance	science
2,545	41,239	It's not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!	Christopher Parker	learning
9,799	15,072	We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.	Katie Holmes	dreams
1,613	24,171	'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.	Harlan Coben	forgiveness
9,689	48,680	You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion.	Midge Ure	morning
2,532	52,568	My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.	Robert Wise	patience
6,269	39,036	Knowledge is the life of the mind.	Abu Bakr	knowledge
6,277	47,109	Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.	Patina Miller	mom
9,722	50,230	Music can change the world because it can change people.	Bono	music
6,780	56,462	Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.	Phillips Brooks	power
4,751	62,458	If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.	Red Skelton	smile
11,411	4,076	Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.	Frank Lloyd Wright	art
4,826	10,236	Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. And so many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old.	Amy Klobuchar	communication
6,981	17,205	Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.	Mary Douglas	equality
3,502	9,321	Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.	Ray Bradbury	change
5,884	56,066	For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.	Terry Eagleton	positive
1,762	36,553	I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.	J. B. Priestley	hope
7,025	61,657	In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.	Marie Curie	science
3,912	53,391	The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.	Arthur Henderson	peace
4,025	56,163	Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.	Gabriela Sabatini	positive
6,529	11,122	President Clinton is going to embrace President Obama, as he should. They are working together. They're different kinds of people. Obama is cool, Clinton is a schmoozer. Both are great speakers. It's a great merging of the party.	Bill Richardson	cool
3,765	44,792	You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.	Jeremy Sisto	marriage
11,275	22,532	I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.	Richard Trumka	fear
284	73,607	I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.	Eminem	women
10,603	58,969	Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.	Gregory Bateson	religion
6,129	9,532	I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.	Roy Orbison	change
6,138	52,118	I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.	Georg Cantor	nature
467	3,929	I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.	Marilyn Manson	art
7,427	49,682	My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.	Ben Affleck	movies
2,180	56,648	Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.	Napoleon Hill	power
1,082	7,543	The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.	Andrew Jackson	business
4,581	52,916	Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.	Richard M. DeVos	peace
2,204	38,712	I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it.	Jeffrey Jones	intelligence
6,445	16,872	I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.	Vivienne Westwood	environmental
4,873	11,418	Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.	Will Champion	cool
3,576	42,955	Love does not dominate it cultivates.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	love
10,998	63,482	Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.	Peter L. Berger	society
1,104	68,183	That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.	Martin Luther King, Jr.	time
495	31,760	Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.	Anatole France	great
1,453	68,459	For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.	Johnny Depp	time
6,784	39,171	If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.	Mao Zedong	knowledge
10,761	22,815	People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.	Carol Moseley Braun	finance
4,755	53,164	Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.	Hiawatha	peace
2,938	46,474	People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.	Gary Vaynerchuk	mom
1,683	286	An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.	Andre Maurois	age
1,139	69,887	And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.	Elton John	trust
5,417	2,767	When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.	Claudio Reyna	amazing
10,265	2,149	The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.	Ben Stein	amazing
9,311	72,236	Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.	Daisaku Ikeda	war
10,439	69,350	What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.	George Byron	travel
10,935	17,276	Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality he carried the American flag.	Adrian Cronauer	equality
6,906	49,274	Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.	Zoe Saldana	movies
1,180	58,278	A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.	Tab Hunter	relationship
11,511	7,702	You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.	William Shatner	business
6,011	18,109	When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?	Charlie Kaufman	experience
2,906	33,991	In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.	John F. Kennedy	history
6,613	44,153	Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.	Rick Wright	marriage
6,839	73,794	When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.	Mindy Kaling	women
7,713	20,230	I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.	Gordon Ramsay	family
2,624	72,482	The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!	Rupert Everett	war
5,173	68,977	Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.	Mia Hamm	time
4,525	74,473	If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.	Ogden Nash	work
4,016	69,499	A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.	David Cone	travel
2,630	22,763	The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.	Alfred Marshall	finance
8,045	41,777	Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.	Roger Wicker	legal
2,357	29,475	No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.	Roger Ebert	good
7,905	28,531	I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.	Susan B. Anthony	god
4,206	54,935	He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.	Henry Adams	politics
3,835	72,391	The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.	Thomas Friedman	war
3,770	64,637	Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.	John W. Gardner	strength
1,281	58,968	I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.	Barbara Kingsolver	religion
3,914	35,502	By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.	Iain Duncan Smith	home
1,210	3,125	For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.	Paula Cole	anger
832	15,361	Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.	William Graham Sumner	dreams
1,108	60,117	This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.	Andrew Bogut	respect
3,718	39,615	The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world it does not have vastness.	Robert Delaunay	knowledge
5,466	49,706	I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.	Christopher Nolan	movies
6,926	15,939	Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.	Joseph Stalin	education
6,681	3,403	Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.	Harry Seidler	architecture
584	14,513	I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'	Claudia Schiffer	design
5,079	56,837	Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.	Tyler Perry	power
625	38,622	Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.	Christine Baranski	intelligence
10,172	5,351	That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.	Kevyn Aucoin	beauty
6,832	48,081	Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.	Dennis Miller	money
11,605	66,067	For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.	Kristen Wiig	success
5,573	47,976	I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.	Eva Braun	money
3,757	73,367	Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.	Wallace Stegner	wisdom
8,560	37,116	Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.	Allen Klein	humor
4,550	16,812	No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.	Garrett Hardin	environmental
1,053	61,485	Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'	Dave Parnas	science
8,226	14,190	I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.	Julianna Baggott	death
7,393	9,572	A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.	Henry A. Wallace	change

8,737

10,128

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

Jessamyn West

communication

3,488

36,594

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.

Studs Terkel

hope

5,165

38,252

Information is not knowledge.

Albert Einstein

intelligence

11,479

13,020

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

Candace Parker

dad

11,628

3,563

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

Richard Rogers

architecture

838

56,562

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

John F. Kennedy

power

3,285

39,635

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

Alban Berg

knowledge

2,544

24,491

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

freedom

11,210

62,294

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

Jack Vance

science

2,545

41,239

It's not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!

Christopher Parker

learning

9,799

15,072

We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.

Katie Holmes

dreams

1,613

24,171

'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

Harlan Coben

forgiveness

9,689

48,680

You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion.

Midge Ure

morning

2,532

52,568

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

Robert Wise

patience

6,269

39,036

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

Abu Bakr

knowledge

6,277

47,109

Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.

Patina Miller

mom

9,722

50,230

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Bono

music

6,780

56,462

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Phillips Brooks

power

4,751

62,458

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.

Red Skelton

smile

11,411

4,076

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Frank Lloyd Wright

art

4,826

10,236

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. And so many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old.

Amy Klobuchar

communication

6,981

17,205

Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.

Mary Douglas

equality

3,502

9,321

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

Ray Bradbury

change

5,884

56,066

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

Terry Eagleton

positive

1,762

36,553

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

J. B. Priestley

hope

7,025

61,657

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Marie Curie

science

3,912

53,391

The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.

Arthur Henderson

peace

4,025

56,163

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

Gabriela Sabatini

positive

6,529

11,122

President Clinton is going to embrace President Obama, as he should. They are working together. They're different kinds of people. Obama is cool, Clinton is a schmoozer. Both are great speakers. It's a great merging of the party.

Bill Richardson

cool

3,765

44,792

You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.

Jeremy Sisto

marriage

11,275

22,532

I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.

Richard Trumka

fear

284

73,607

I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.

Eminem

women

10,603

58,969

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Gregory Bateson

religion

6,129

9,532

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

Roy Orbison

change

6,138

52,118

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

Georg Cantor

nature

467

3,929

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

Marilyn Manson

art

7,427

49,682

My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.

Ben Affleck

movies

2,180

56,648

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Napoleon Hill

power

1,082

7,543

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

Andrew Jackson

business

4,581

52,916

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

Richard M. DeVos

peace

2,204

38,712

I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it.

Jeffrey Jones

intelligence

6,445

16,872

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

Vivienne Westwood

environmental

4,873

11,418

Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.

Will Champion

cool

3,576

42,955

Love does not dominate it cultivates.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

love

10,998

63,482

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

Peter L. Berger

society

1,104

68,183

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

time

495

31,760

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

Anatole France

great

1,453

68,459

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.

Johnny Depp

time

6,784

39,171

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Mao Zedong

knowledge

10,761

22,815

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carol Moseley Braun

finance

4,755

53,164

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

Hiawatha

peace

2,938

46,474

People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.

Gary Vaynerchuk

mom

1,683

286

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Andre Maurois

age

1,139

69,887

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

Elton John

trust

5,417

2,767

When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.

Claudio Reyna

amazing

10,265

2,149

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

Ben Stein

amazing

9,311

72,236

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

Daisaku Ikeda

war

10,439

69,350

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

George Byron

travel

10,935

17,276

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality he carried the American flag.

Adrian Cronauer

equality

6,906

49,274

Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.

Zoe Saldana

movies

1,180

58,278

A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.

Tab Hunter

relationship

11,511

7,702

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

William Shatner

business

6,011

18,109

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?

Charlie Kaufman

experience

2,906

33,991

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

John F. Kennedy

history

6,613

44,153

Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.

Rick Wright

marriage

6,839

73,794

When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.

Mindy Kaling

women

7,713

20,230

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

Gordon Ramsay

family

2,624

72,482

The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

Rupert Everett

war

5,173

68,977

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Mia Hamm

time

4,525

74,473

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Ogden Nash

work

4,016

69,499

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

David Cone

travel

2,630

22,763

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

Alfred Marshall

finance

8,045

41,777

Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.

Roger Wicker

legal

2,357

29,475

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

Roger Ebert

good

7,905

28,531

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

Susan B. Anthony

god

4,206

54,935

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Henry Adams

politics

3,835

72,391

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.

Thomas Friedman

war

3,770

64,637

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

John W. Gardner

strength

1,281

58,968

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

Barbara Kingsolver

religion

3,914

35,502

By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.

Iain Duncan Smith

home

1,210

3,125

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

Paula Cole

anger

832

15,361

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

William Graham Sumner

dreams

1,108

60,117

This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.

Andrew Bogut

respect

3,718

39,615

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world it does not have vastness.

Robert Delaunay

knowledge

5,466

49,706

I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

Christopher Nolan

movies

6,926

15,939

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Joseph Stalin

education

6,681

3,403

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.

Harry Seidler

architecture

584

14,513

I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'

Claudia Schiffer

design

5,079

56,837

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

Tyler Perry

power

625

38,622

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.

Christine Baranski

intelligence

10,172

5,351

That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.

Kevyn Aucoin

beauty

6,832

48,081

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

Dennis Miller

money

11,605

66,067

For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.

Kristen Wiig

success

5,573

47,976

I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.

Eva Braun

money

3,757

73,367

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Wallace Stegner

wisdom

8,560

37,116

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

Allen Klein

humor

4,550

16,812

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

Garrett Hardin

environmental

1,053

61,485

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'

Dave Parnas

science

8,226

14,190

I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.

Julianna Baggott

death

7,393

9,572

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

Henry A. Wallace

change