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874 | 28,772 | A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. | Charles Evans Hughes | good |
8,960 | 36,723 | Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me? | John James Audubon | hope |
8,331 | 67,369 | James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies. | Joe Morton | technology |
2,404 | 567 | I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way. | Danica McKellar | age |
7,111 | 40,782 | Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. | David Hume | learning |
2,394 | 10,972 | I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not. | Suzanne Farrell | cool |
6,757 | 16,692 | I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question. | Harri Holkeri | education |
8,876 | 14,263 | When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now. | Adam Ant | death |
1,237 | 61,066 | I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies. | Debra Winger | sad |
9,546 | 32,994 | Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. | Christopher Hitchens | health |
2,853 | 65,458 | Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. | Booker T. Washington | success |
11,589 | 27,789 | Even God lends a hand to honest boldness. | Menander | god |
5,008 | 67,478 | But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer. | Jay Chiat | technology |
230 | 15,483 | Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in. | Emmitt Smith | dreams |
9,500 | 9,531 | I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything. | Emma Watson | change |
6,786 | 13,622 | I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough. | Anthony Hopkins | death |
10,580 | 66,464 | The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade. | David E. Price | teacher |
2,199 | 58,017 | I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor. | Ted Cruz | relationship |
7,907 | 22,263 | My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned. | Halle Berry | fear |
10,955 | 10,130 | The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. | Henry Miller | communication |
8,196 | 12,696 | Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts. | Lee Westwood | dad |
1,187 | 20,832 | The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school. | Giada De Laurentiis | family |
7,266 | 53,025 | We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft. | Adlai E. Stevenson | peace |
1,389 | 36,134 | In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future. | Stendhal | hope |
10,110 | 30,788 | Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate. | Alexis Herman | graduation |
1,988 | 75,380 | I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. | Emma Thompson | work |
4,099 | 74,913 | Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work. | Ralph Marston | work |
6,283 | 52,536 | I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once. | Niki Taylor | patience |
4,913 | 60,179 | Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development. | Anna Lindh | respect |
4,949 | 42,512 | I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. | Frank Sinatra | life |
3,058 | 24,732 | Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. | Margaret Mitchell | freedom |
6,452 | 45,379 | Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. | Mahatma Gandhi | men |
6,933 | 72,728 | Honesty is the best policy. | Benjamin Franklin | wisdom |
6,446 | 40,494 | Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand. | Anita Borg | leadership |
2,605 | 66,441 | The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy. | Michael Porter | teacher |
4,098 | 30,891 | The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. | Martin Luther King, Jr. | great |
11,797 | 25,347 | Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. | John Wooden | friendship |
6,271 | 57,181 | Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. | Samuel Smiles | power |
5,269 | 45,533 | Death is not the worst that can happen to men. | Plato | men |
7,455 | 8,405 | As soon as I get my car I think I'll be going to the cinema more. Since I don't go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD. | Tom Felton | car |
5,701 | 38,345 | Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. | H. L. Mencken | intelligence |
4,268 | 74,984 | The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. | John Ruskin | work |
10,750 | 61,425 | It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. | Konrad Lorenz | science |
6,955 | 13,576 | Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die. | Guru Nanak | death |
2,730 | 60,065 | PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect. | Ingrid Newkirk | respect |
10,895 | 72,185 | It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it. | George McGovern | war |
5,360 | 27,840 | A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. | Carl Sandburg | god |
11,592 | 54,234 | Poetry is the deification of reality. | Edith Sitwell | poetry |
5,320 | 47,698 | Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal. | Donald Rumsfeld | money |
6,115 | 67,570 | The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day. | Jam Master Jay | technology |
4,482 | 52,765 | We make war that we may live in peace. | Aristotle | peace |
2,780 | 66,216 | Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. | Alphonse de Lamartine | sympathy |
8,438 | 70,394 | I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door. | Marla Gibbs | trust |
1,359 | 35,181 | I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff. | David Byrne | home |
7,486 | 45,004 | For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice. | Nana Mouskouri | medical |
3,381 | 21,326 | I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave. | Elizabeth Hurley | famous |
2,704 | 56,532 | Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. | Martin Luther King, Jr. | power |
4,370 | 8,600 | To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most. | Jenson Button | car |
1,105 | 8,764 | Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility. | Mohamed El-Erian | car |
10,647 | 49,534 | I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them. | Danny Boyle | movies |
1,331 | 22,131 | Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film. | Alfred Hitchcock | fear |
5,041 | 73,618 | I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | women |
3,021 | 27,189 | One faces the future with one's past. | Pearl S. Buck | future |
10,918 | 43,738 | Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion. | Ninon de L'Enclos | love |
4,408 | 32,518 | Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else. | Harry Lauder | happiness |
5,006 | 67,029 | You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now. | Jeff Bridges | technology |
6,136 | 46,589 | I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there. | Ernie Harwell | mom |
7,113 | 39,545 | It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system. | Talcott Parsons | knowledge |
5,055 | 49,265 | Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way. | Martin Scorsese | movies |
10,046 | 31,579 | The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. | Charles Dickens | great |
2,094 | 36,258 | I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question. | Daniel Inouye | hope |
7,640 | 68,050 | I'm thankful for not ever taking anything illegal. | Pedro Martinez | thankful |
6,375 | 23,831 | Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting. | Liv Tyler | food |
6,663 | 4,310 | I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent. | Jerry Saltz | art |
6,199 | 53,655 | Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace. | Mohammed Morsi | peace |
4,330 | 35,486 | I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible. | Amy Grant | home |
10,662 | 35,664 | My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends. | Steve Nash | home |
10,654 | 21,506 | In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band. | Neal Schon | famous |
9,660 | 13,824 | I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot. | Daniel Radcliffe | death |
9,119 | 36,461 | They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on. | Christopher Walken | hope |
7,800 | 72,926 | Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. | e. e. cummings | wisdom |
2,313 | 50,083 | Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy. | Mandy Patinkin | movies |
3,163 | 980 | Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. | Lydia M. Child | age |
4,236 | 74,797 | If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger. | Hubert H. Humphrey | work |
3,910 | 42,087 | Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. | Ernest Holmes | life |
10,430 | 48,356 | I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning. | Norah Jones | morning |
10,940 | 13,855 | His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad. | Red Skelton | death |
11,163 | 67,526 | Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. | Jesse James Garrett | technology |
7,276 | 33,399 | Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned. | Fred Upton | health |
1,056 | 25,764 | Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands. | Jerry Lewis | funny |
7,229 | 61,210 | I mean, that's a sad day in America when you're recalled because you did what you said you were going to do, and the public voted you in to do that. | Russell Pearce | sad |
3,004 | 9,549 | I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, you think we're really going to change Washington, D.C.? You don't have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and the Obamacare individual mandate. | Rick Perry | change |
5,779 | 32,284 | I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. | Arthur Rimbaud | happiness |
8,189 | 51,898 | Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters. | Pope Paul VI | nature |
497 | 51,698 | The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. | Henry Beston | nature |
7,255 | 11,172 | If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool. | Ben Nicholas | cool |
7,792 | 39,664 | If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law. | John Boyd Orr | knowledge |
3,810 | 46,822 | My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play. | Freddy Adu | mom |
6,530 | 16,514 | Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place. | Charles Kennedy | education |
8,843 | 16,784 | God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. | John Muir | environmental |
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