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30 | 21,476 | If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective. | Danny Bonaduce | famous |
10,845 | 37,886 | Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin. | William Robertson Smith | imagination |
6,923 | 15,813 | The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. | Plato | education |
10,586 | 20,907 | South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. | Ice Cube | family |
1,540 | 58,048 | So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly. | Fred Thompson | relationship |
9,464 | 29,732 | The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. | Ronald Reagan | government |
9,091 | 45,581 | Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them. | Orison Swett Marden | men |
10,069 | 42,943 | Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. | Lao Tzu | love |
8,243 | 24,640 | To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something. | Shel Silverstein | freedom |
11,463 | 72,959 | The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. | Marcus Tullius Cicero | wisdom |
8,719 | 65,472 | To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. | Orison Swett Marden | success |
4,154 | 9,035 | Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well. | Buck Baker | car |
4,501 | 7,162 | My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her. | Guy Johnson | birthday |
9,108 | 3,726 | Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. | Oliver Wendell Holmes | art |
1,006 | 38,986 | Doubt grows with knowledge. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | knowledge |
10,346 | 55,842 | There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast. | Brian Koslow | positive |
200 | 6,495 | Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. | Michelangelo | best |
11,084 | 9,776 | In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances. | Herbert Spencer | change |
2,362 | 51,202 | The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born. | Lawrence Welk | music |
8,908 | 6,876 | The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal. | Ritchie Blackmore | best |
7,061 | 22,936 | Investing in health will produce enormous benefits. | Gro Harlem Brundtland | fitness |
1,633 | 36,546 | My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results. | Frank R. Wolf | hope |
7,209 | 35,947 | While there's life, there's hope. | Marcus Tullius Cicero | hope |
11,366 | 8,360 | It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows. | Erma Bombeck | car |
11,351 | 66,977 | The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. | William Gibson | technology |
9,071 | 9,236 | Music can change the world because it can change people. | Bono | change |
4,619 | 20,137 | Our family life was certainly not intellectual. | Douglass North | family |
8,764 | 46,948 | My mom sent me to regular high school because she wanted me to have that experience and not say that I missed out, but I didn't like it at all. I'm more comfortable in the world that I'm in, I grew up in it so when I get around normal kids in regular high school I don't know what to do. I feel more secure in an adult environment. | Alexa Vega | mom |
7,967 | 3,826 | Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. | Robert Delaunay | art |
1,865 | 47,425 | I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money. | Paulo Coelho | money |
11,586 | 45,502 | All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God. | Voltaire | men |
1,106 | 35,139 | You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. | Anita Baker | home |
11,546 | 17,322 | Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. | Auguste Rodin | experience |
5,441 | 1,542 | There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. | Elizabeth Bowen | alone |
9,125 | 57,766 | So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output. | Talib Kweli | relationship |
68 | 17,018 | There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it. | Thomas R. Cech | environmental |
5,046 | 52,131 | Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. | Josef Albers | nature |
5,529 | 59,671 | At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing. | Jim Henson | respect |
7,741 | 52,742 | I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. | Martin Luther King, Jr. | peace |
2,650 | 66,317 | I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did. | Terry Prachett | sympathy |
6,150 | 62,665 | I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile. | David Allan Coe | smile |
3,533 | 56,824 | Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. | Robert Staughton Lynd | power |
7,757 | 59,677 | I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect. | Julie Andrews | respect |
9,501 | 40,236 | President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch. | Lindsey Graham | leadership |
4,143 | 52,915 | If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the peace and freedom of the world require it. | Mitt Romney | peace |
1,461 | 23,136 | I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that. | Edie Brickell | food |
5,156 | 12,693 | My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between. | Tony Visconti | dad |
1,327 | 37,113 | When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits. | Allen Klein | humor |
92 | 70,927 | In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy. | Marcus Tullius Cicero | truth |
4,878 | 10,738 | Manners are love in a cool climate. | Quentin Crisp | cool |
10,807 | 43,908 | Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. | H. Jackson Brown, Jr. | marriage |
6,469 | 3,877 | I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. | Jim Morrison | art |
11,333 | 30,771 | I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs. | Jim Clyburn | graduation |
9,131 | 55,812 | I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it. | Justin Bieber | positive |
8,753 | 65,039 | If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals. | Robert Conklin | strength |
76 | 3,226 | If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner or by momentarily resigning the game or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him. | Howard Staunton | anger |
9,258 | 31,966 | Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning. | Andrei Platonov | happiness |
4,536 | 31,644 | When you are happy you can forgive a great deal. | Princess Diana | great |
1,572 | 49,301 | A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together. | Louis C. K. | movies |
10,832 | 75,921 | The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving. | Merle Shain | thanksgiving |
6,506 | 43,057 | If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only. | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | love |
2,765 | 48,696 | I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things. | Paul Westerberg | morning |
2,154 | 20,661 | Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family. | Dennis Prager | family |
936 | 25,674 | I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. | Fred Allen | funny |
9,285 | 52,387 | Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. | William Penn | patience |
2,880 | 10,880 | Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.' | Rob Sheffield | cool |
2,293 | 75,708 | A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. | Mahatma Gandhi | easter |
7,621 | 32,593 | Happiness is no laughing matter. | Richard Whately | happiness |
1,167 | 37,489 | Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. | Horace Walpole | imagination |
8,352 | 20,806 | The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag. | Steven Patrick Morrissey | family |
4,114 | 5,916 | It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress. | Paul Dirac | beauty |
6,514 | 62,901 | In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. | Salvador Dali | society |
1,658 | 52,613 | 137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy. | Doc Hastings | patriotism |
3,494 | 37,873 | You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me. | Peter Shaffer | imagination |
6,098 | 57,502 | If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. | James A. Baldwin | relationship |
5,602 | 31,387 | What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. | Francois de La Rochefoucauld | great |
2,608 | 25,197 | Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve. | Tammy Baldwin | freedom |
3,481 | 54,614 | What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. | Stephen Greenblatt | poetry |
1,397 | 44,531 | Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker. | Mary Douglas | marriage |
7,659 | 67,555 | They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought. | John Mica | technology |
4,094 | 52,842 | Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none. | Thomas Jefferson | peace |
11,093 | 45,131 | I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy. | Sandra Fluke | medical |
5,068 | 7,908 | You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school. | Alan Alda | business |
2,619 | 6,697 | God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | best |
7,893 | 71,436 | A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth. | Michael Kinsley | truth |
11,432 | 29,026 | What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another? | Marilyn Monroe | good |
7,675 | 8,291 | Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down. | Dave Barry | car |
466 | 61,474 | The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. | Walter Lippmann | science |
5,651 | 57,786 | I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about. | Tony Kushner | relationship |
1,648 | 67,719 | You can't stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will. | Billy Burke | technology |
6,805 | 40,522 | A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. | Bruce Lee | learning |
3,304 | 15,780 | There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach. | John S. Herrington | dreams |
6,775 | 59,777 | If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place. | Robert Schumann | respect |
1,698 | 54,894 | I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. | Arthur C. Clarke | politics |
8,890 | 1,287 | Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. | St. Jerome | alone |
8,819 | 3,795 | Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. | Gwendolyn Brooks | art |
7,211 | 49,332 | I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser. | Shirley MacLaine | movies |
6,070 | 62,528 | A smile costs about $240. | Roma Downey | smile |
5,255 | 24,624 | Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. | Daniel J. Boorstin | freedom |
115 | 42,558 | The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life. | George Bernard Shaw | life |
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