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7,866 | 74,970 | When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. | Calvin Coolidge | work |
9,894 | 74,594 | Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. | Henry Ford | work |
4,163 | 74,621 | I wasn't really a work conscious type of person. | Michael Jordan | work |
4,728 | 14,449 | I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career. | Florence Welch | design |
1,406 | 44,687 | I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth. | Harold Ford | marriage |
5,870 | 46,384 | My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There's a lot going on there. | Emeril Lagasse | mom |
2,949 | 18,667 | I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. | Sara Blakely | failure |
2,427 | 6,674 | It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible. | Desmond Tutu | best |
9,295 | 4,454 | The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. | Arthur Koestler | art |
9,216 | 19,780 | I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith. | Garth Ennis | faith |
8,075 | 27,948 | It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us. | Tupac Shakur | god |
725 | 37,651 | I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can. | Franz Schubert | imagination |
1,402 | 60,596 | I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it. | Jeremy Renner | romantic |
990 | 30,943 | Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones. | William Shakespeare | great |
9,946 | 69,620 | Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option. | Wilson Greatbatch | travel |
5,752 | 6,633 | When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget. | Helen Hunt Jackson | best |
4,300 | 65,525 | The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | success |
399 | 71,109 | The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth. | Jean de la Bruyere | truth |
4,693 | 21,211 | I've only ever wanted to be a singer I never wanted to be famous. | Katherine Jenkins | famous |
11,819 | 4,626 | Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. | Joseph Conrad | art |
10,964 | 21,317 | Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques. | Robert Morgan | famous |
1,291 | 4,074 | Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. | Nathaniel Hawthorne | art |
6,731 | 29,569 | Active Evil is better than Passive Good. | William Blake | good |
4,506 | 21,050 | I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life. | Sinead O'Connor | famous |
6,153 | 515 | Does age matter? Time doesn't matter. | Sandra Bullock | age |
4,063 | 50,911 | Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world. | William Lyon Phelps | music |
1,235 | 586 | At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly. | Rod Stewart | age |
7,278 | 30,019 | Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy. | P. J. O'Rourke | government |
5,903 | 32,207 | Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it! | Freddie Mercury | happiness |
8,977 | 55,637 | I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before. | Frank Luntz | politics |
10,950 | 26,541 | I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one. | Wendy Liebman | funny |
3,475 | 47,587 | An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. | Emil Zatopek | money |
7,389 | 32,559 | While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. | Sarah Vowell | happiness |
8,516 | 16,244 | Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. | Henry Adams | education |
1,582 | 75,955 | How sweet it is! | Jackie Gleason | valentinesday |
7,725 | 66,956 | Technology has to be invented or adopted. | Jared Diamond | technology |
9,673 | 57,421 | I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves. | Shirley MacLaine | relationship |
10,074 | 39,781 | Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture. | David Amram | knowledge |
3,225 | 47,500 | It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people. | Donald Trump | money |
1,121 | 8,475 | I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes. | Tracey Ullman | car |
1,135 | 25,841 | The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want! | Jerry Seinfeld | funny |
11,367 | 13,321 | Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live. | Henry Van Dyke | death |
6,054 | 70,107 | I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing. | Guy Pearce | trust |
1,256 | 11,169 | I'm always looking for cool stuff to do because that's what we're supposed to do, ya know? | Joshua Homme | cool |
10,641 | 41,473 | I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist. | Todd Rokita | learning |
2,826 | 16,348 | The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion. | Katherine Dunham | education |
2,793 | 49,711 | I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me. | David Sedaris | movies |
6,638 | 49,818 | Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box. | Greg Kinnear | movies |
6,130 | 21,922 | Fear follows crime and is its punishment. | Voltaire | fear |
2,807 | 1,290 | Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love. | Reinhold Niebuhr | alone |
9,812 | 47,891 | From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing £20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't get rid of my money fast enough. | Julie Burchill | money |
10,507 | 73,646 | A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him. | Mae West | women |
2,998 | 2,795 | For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation. | Judy Woodruff | amazing |
11,675 | 75,876 | For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received. | Storm Jameson | thanksgiving |
209 | 39,790 | I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions. | Alan Dundes | knowledge |
11,167 | 38,592 | Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity. | Remy de Gourmont | intelligence |
7,225 | 8,042 | Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business. | Twyla Tharp | business |
8,085 | 15,145 | Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. | Victor Hugo | dreams |
54 | 29,152 | The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. | Solomon Ibn Gabirol | good |
2,010 | 57,589 | I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other. | Tori Amos | relationship |
8,490 | 11,560 | A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten. | John F. Kennedy | courage |
1,868 | 13,800 | The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death. | Jonathan Davis | death |
3,175 | 25,476 | Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures. | Seneca | friendship |
5,938 | 35,652 | A nutritionist helps me eat healthily at home. | Leighton Meester | home |
2,975 | 45,649 | Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. | Garrison Keillor | men |
4,355 | 8,944 | I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing. | John Searle | car |
565 | 6,275 | The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | best |
177 | 18,604 | But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated. | Kathy Ireland | failure |
540 | 22,284 | The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich. | Maynard James Keenan | fear |
2,779 | 45,104 | In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either. | Neal Barnard | medical |
4,505 | 68,996 | Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. | Denis Waitley | time |
9,196 | 43,831 | We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do. | Francois de La Rochefoucauld | love |
10,509 | 67,515 | Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go. | Jack Kilby | technology |
5,027 | 41,887 | I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. | E. B. White | life |
10,233 | 27,094 | I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future. | Lou Reed | future |
5,564 | 17,685 | There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change? | Andrea Jung | experience |
9,613 | 25,883 | Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself. | Cathy Guisewite | funny |
10,492 | 52,730 | When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism! | David Starr Jordan | patriotism |
964 | 43,213 | The course of true love never did run smooth. | William Shakespeare | love |
4,304 | 54,875 | When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. | John W. Gardner | politics |
2,285 | 45,501 | One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. | Elbert Hubbard | men |
696 | 17,080 | Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition. | Mercy Otis Warren | equality |
7,752 | 72,830 | It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. | Francois de La Rochefoucauld | wisdom |
5,901 | 20,196 | I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. | Rodney Dangerfield | family |
5,664 | 66,508 | Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week. | Temple Grandin | teacher |
8,426 | 63,607 | Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society. | Ahmet Necdet Sezner | society |
10,913 | 47,378 | When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. | Voltaire | money |
4,417 | 68,147 | Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. | Delmore Schwartz | time |
4,497 | 31,460 | With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. | Arthur Schopenhauer | great |
1,822 | 47,925 | I always say, 'People first, then money, then things.' | Suze Orman | money |
8,888 | 49,252 | I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character. | Jeff Bridges | movies |
767 | 41,141 | I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that. | Ron Silver | learning |
2,382 | 72,890 | Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. | Jimi Hendrix | wisdom |
6,555 | 38,271 | Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience. | Paul Cezanne | intelligence |
2,486 | 48,538 | The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning. | Anne Tyler | morning |
6,727 | 69,459 | The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world. | Rob Corddry | travel |
1,302 | 45,800 | Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. | Rene Descartes | men |
11,001 | 65,633 | Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success they are interested in your money. | Bo Bennett | success |
8,788 | 24,297 | Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. | John F. Kennedy | freedom |
10,743 | 53,381 | I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that? | Siobhan Fahey | peace |
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