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559	61,159	I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.	Mikhail Kalashnikov	sad
4,932	61,054	With my schedule being so crazy, I can't call every day or hang out with my friends like I used to and that's definitely sad.	Jordin Sparks	sad
4,971	49,511	The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.	Tom Hanks	movies
6,544	22,076	I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.	Thomas Huxley	fear
11,608	9,674	The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	change
2,274	57,361	The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.	Lewis Mumford	power
840	8,017	In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.	David Mamet	business
7,534	56,078	It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.	Ivor Novello	positive
11,168	60,743	The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.	Alfred Molina	romantic
11,380	12,877	When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.	Bruno Tonioli	dad
10,335	37,848	On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.	Emile Hirsch	imagination
7,756	11,209	The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.	Mike Gordon	cool
6,788	58,498	Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.	Martin Luther King, Jr.	religion
1,459	9,213	The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.	Oprah Winfrey	change
11,519	22,220	Fear is the foundation of safety.	Tertullian	fear
6,787	25,570	There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.	Kenny Rogers	friendship
7,298	27,127	After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.	David Cameron	future
4,092	57,584	I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them.	Hugh Jackman	relationship
6,155	41,634	I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings.	Ryan Reynolds	legal
2,753	12,524	I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.	James Caan	dad
5,652	16,091	Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.	Karl Kraus	education
10,805	3,962	Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.	Ambrose Bierce	art
505	46,462	I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.	Leona Lewis	mom
1,954	35,384	I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.	Kristin Scott Thomas	home
7,764	57,678	I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.	Katherine Heigl	relationship
11,715	41,620	Every one with this writ may be a tyrant if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.	James Otis	legal
7,078	65,327	Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.	Mario Andretti	success
829	5,567	Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.	Martha Beck	beauty
7,730	30,474	If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.	George Will	government
5,607	58,249	When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I'd had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought, 'It's time to have a look at yourself.'	Brendan Coyle	relationship
8,836	21,450	The actual truth about Gad is it's one of the original 13 tribes of Israel, so you can actually trace my lineage back to, like, those guys who had, like, a hand in the Bible and have since become very famous from that. So I come from very famous lineage. Granted, they didn't have cameras back then, so none of them had TV shows.	Josh Gad	famous
3,876	57,837	I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship it just obviously wasn't right for me.	Portia de Rossi	relationship
10,189	19,139	Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.	Eleanor Roosevelt	faith
668	28,743	If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.	Bill Gates	good
10,553	68,574	In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time.	Leonardo da Vinci	time
9,173	46,684	My mom won't let anyone treat me like a little princess.	Chloe Moretz	mom
40	60,470	Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.	Henry Rollins	romantic
9,081	19,519	As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.	Eliot Spitzer	faith
253	22,570	Action conquers fear.	Peter Nivio Zarlenga	fear
11,107	16,578	It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.	John Keegan	education
3,721	49,478	I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.	Jason Reitman	movies
8,650	54,310	Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.	George Farquhar	poetry
773	9,864	I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.	Tony Blair	change
4,264	49,163	Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.	Samuel Goldwyn	movies
263	63,720	It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.	Mark Twain	sports
6,056	71,534	The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.	John F. Kennedy	war
3,208	28,084	Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.	Marcus Tullius Cicero	god
5,435	56,840	Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.	Thurgood Marshall	power
11,652	3,415	The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.	Russell Lynes	architecture
3,082	39,167	It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.	Marilu Henner	knowledge
6,425	27,629	I think within Japan there is talk about how there is the need to reassess the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance.	Lee Myung-bak	future
905	67,714	I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.	Jack L. Chalker	technology
8,197	49,668	I'm a fan of action movies.	Kate Beckinsale	movies
3,229	44,326	That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.	John Updike	marriage
9,679	32,534	The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.	Herbert Read	happiness
5,120	55,643	I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.	Anna Chlumsky	politics
7,761	5,744	Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.	Lindsay Wagner	beauty
3,531	28,328	God continues to work miracles in my life.	Willie Aames	god
4,518	63,500	My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.	Anna Deavere Smith	society
4,466	46,696	I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions.	Jenna Bush	mom
836	14,607	I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.	Jil Sander	design
7,286	1,418	Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.	Georg Solti	alone
3,694	52,271	The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.	Kamisese Mara	parenting
10,010	55,592	A week is a long time in politics.	Harold Wilson	politics
5,327	45,795	But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.	Little Richard	men
4,842	64,421	Sports don't define us it is not what we live for.	Michael Wilbon	sports
8,008	45,156	A man's kiss is his signature.	Mae West	men
315	18,870	Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.	Jonathan Raban	failure
9,619	14,573	My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.	Jay Roach	design
7,955	14,164	Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.	Harry Browne	death
11,124	25,910	Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.	Lenny Bruce	funny
2,263	19,731	I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.	Gael Garcia Bernal	faith
10,201	50,813	My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.	Shania Twain	music
5,881	54,657	Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.	Malcolm Wilson	poetry
5,746	45,980	Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.	Arthur Schopenhauer	men
5,559	44,663	I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.	John Mahoney	marriage
4,516	11,104	I've worn my share of leopard pink boots to premieres or belts the size of cars. I thought my pink leopard boots were so cool.	Brittany Snow	cool
3,736	62,685	I like guys with a nice smile. I know it's cliche, but it's so true! I like a guy with a nice smile and nice eyes.	Rebecca Black	smile
6,091	59,527	We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.	George Santayana	respect
2,830	72,288	What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.	Iain Duncan Smith	war
7,053	57,073	The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.	Jeremy Bentham	power
6,579	22,603	It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!	May Sarton	fear
9,297	48,294	What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?	Jennifer Aniston	morning
9,823	52,523	When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.	Ismail Haniyeh	patience
4,084	29,036	I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.	Walt Whitman	good
2,009	8,906	What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.	Serge Schmemann	car
11,641	67,483	My first job after college was at Magic Quest, an educational software startup company where I was responsible for writing the content. I found that job somewhat accidentally but after working there a few weeks and loving my job, I decided to pursue a career in technology.	Susan Wojcicki	technology
5,092	27,630	All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.	Hans Kung	future
686	44,841	Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.	Jeff Sessions	marriage
2,241	886	I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.	Jodi Picoult	age
8,581	22,607	Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.	Gregory Bateson	fear
11,188	34,879	I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.	Frank Langella	home
9,332	56,677	Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.	Morihei Ueshiba	power
8,206	11,734	To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.	Henri Frederic Amiel	courage
4,021	60,355	In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.	Robert B. Laughlin	respect
8,548	5,653	Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.	Sara Teasdale	beauty
25	55,281	Pennsylvania is a very tough state people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.	Arlen Specter	politics
7,962	51,078	Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.	Archie Shepp	music
2,349	24,363	I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.	Johnny Depp	freedom
11,169	73,228	Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.	Ruth St. Denis	wisdom

559

61,159

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

sad

4,932

61,054

With my schedule being so crazy, I can't call every day or hang out with my friends like I used to and that's definitely sad.

Jordin Sparks

sad

4,971

49,511

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

Tom Hanks

movies

6,544

22,076

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

Thomas Huxley

fear

11,608

9,674

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

change

2,274

57,361

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Lewis Mumford

power

840

8,017

In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.

David Mamet

business

7,534

56,078

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

Ivor Novello

positive

11,168

60,743

The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.

Alfred Molina

romantic

11,380

12,877

When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.

Bruno Tonioli

dad

10,335

37,848

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

Emile Hirsch

imagination

7,756

11,209

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

Mike Gordon

cool

6,788

58,498

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

religion

1,459

9,213

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Oprah Winfrey

change

11,519

22,220

Fear is the foundation of safety.

Tertullian

fear

6,787

25,570

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

Kenny Rogers

friendship

7,298

27,127

After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.

David Cameron

future

4,092

57,584

I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them.

Hugh Jackman

relationship

6,155

41,634

I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings.

Ryan Reynolds

legal

2,753

12,524

I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.

James Caan

dad

5,652

16,091

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

Karl Kraus

education

10,805

3,962

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Ambrose Bierce

art

505

46,462

I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.

Leona Lewis

mom

1,954

35,384

I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.

Kristin Scott Thomas

home

7,764

57,678

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.

Katherine Heigl

relationship

11,715

41,620

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

James Otis

legal

7,078

65,327

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Mario Andretti

success

829

5,567

Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.

Martha Beck

beauty

7,730

30,474

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

George Will

government

5,607

58,249

When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I'd had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought, 'It's time to have a look at yourself.'

Brendan Coyle

relationship

8,836

21,450

The actual truth about Gad is it's one of the original 13 tribes of Israel, so you can actually trace my lineage back to, like, those guys who had, like, a hand in the Bible and have since become very famous from that. So I come from very famous lineage. Granted, they didn't have cameras back then, so none of them had TV shows.

Josh Gad

famous

3,876

57,837

I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship it just obviously wasn't right for me.

Portia de Rossi

relationship

10,189

19,139

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

faith

668

28,743

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Bill Gates

good

10,553

68,574

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time.

Leonardo da Vinci

time

9,173

46,684

My mom won't let anyone treat me like a little princess.

Chloe Moretz

mom

40

60,470

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

Henry Rollins

romantic

9,081

19,519

As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.

Eliot Spitzer

faith

253

22,570

Action conquers fear.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

fear

11,107

16,578

It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.

John Keegan

education

3,721

49,478

I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.

Jason Reitman

movies

8,650

54,310

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

George Farquhar

poetry

773

9,864

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

Tony Blair

change

4,264

49,163

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

Samuel Goldwyn

movies

263

63,720

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Mark Twain

sports

6,056

71,534

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

John F. Kennedy

war

3,208

28,084

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

god

5,435

56,840

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Thurgood Marshall

power

11,652

3,415

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

Russell Lynes

architecture

3,082

39,167

It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

Marilu Henner

knowledge

6,425

27,629

I think within Japan there is talk about how there is the need to reassess the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance.

Lee Myung-bak

future

905

67,714

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

Jack L. Chalker

technology

8,197

49,668

I'm a fan of action movies.

Kate Beckinsale

movies

3,229

44,326

That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

John Updike

marriage

9,679

32,534

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

Herbert Read

happiness

5,120

55,643

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

Anna Chlumsky

politics

7,761

5,744

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

Lindsay Wagner

beauty

3,531

28,328

God continues to work miracles in my life.

Willie Aames

god

4,518

63,500

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

Anna Deavere Smith

society

4,466

46,696

I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions.

Jenna Bush

mom

836

14,607

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

Jil Sander

design

7,286

1,418

Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.

Georg Solti

alone

3,694

52,271

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

Kamisese Mara

parenting

10,010

55,592

A week is a long time in politics.

Harold Wilson

politics

5,327

45,795

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

Little Richard

men

4,842

64,421

Sports don't define us it is not what we live for.

Michael Wilbon

sports

8,008

45,156

A man's kiss is his signature.

Mae West

men

315

18,870

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

Jonathan Raban

failure

9,619

14,573

My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.

Jay Roach

design

7,955

14,164

Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

Harry Browne

death

11,124

25,910

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.

Lenny Bruce

funny

2,263

19,731

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.

Gael Garcia Bernal

faith

10,201

50,813

My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.

Shania Twain

music

5,881

54,657

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

Malcolm Wilson

poetry

5,746

45,980

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.

Arthur Schopenhauer

men

5,559

44,663

I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.

John Mahoney

marriage

4,516

11,104

I've worn my share of leopard pink boots to premieres or belts the size of cars. I thought my pink leopard boots were so cool.

Brittany Snow

cool

3,736

62,685

I like guys with a nice smile. I know it's cliche, but it's so true! I like a guy with a nice smile and nice eyes.

Rebecca Black

smile

6,091

59,527

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

George Santayana

respect

2,830

72,288

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.

Iain Duncan Smith

war

7,053

57,073

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Jeremy Bentham

power

6,579

22,603

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

May Sarton

fear

9,297

48,294

What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?

Jennifer Aniston

morning

9,823

52,523

When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.

Ismail Haniyeh

patience

4,084

29,036

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Walt Whitman

good

2,009

8,906

What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.

Serge Schmemann

car

11,641

67,483

My first job after college was at Magic Quest, an educational software startup company where I was responsible for writing the content. I found that job somewhat accidentally but after working there a few weeks and loving my job, I decided to pursue a career in technology.

Susan Wojcicki

technology

5,092

27,630

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

Hans Kung

future

686

44,841

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.

Jeff Sessions

marriage

2,241

886

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.

Jodi Picoult

age

8,581

22,607

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

Gregory Bateson

fear

11,188

34,879

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

Frank Langella

home

9,332

56,677

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

Morihei Ueshiba

power

8,206

11,734

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Henri Frederic Amiel

courage

4,021

60,355

In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.

Robert B. Laughlin

respect

8,548

5,653

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

Sara Teasdale

beauty

25

55,281

Pennsylvania is a very tough state people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.

Arlen Specter

politics

7,962

51,078

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

Archie Shepp

music

2,349

24,363

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

Johnny Depp

freedom

11,169

73,228

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

Ruth St. Denis

wisdom