c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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9,840	57,309	The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.	Joe Biden	power
6,646	52,984	Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.	David Sarnoff	peace
9,038	49,604	There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.	Joseph Gordon-Levitt	movies
3,652	18,113	In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.	Alberto Moravia	experience
10,945	1,096	Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.	Calvin Coolidge	alone
10,980	55,716	I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.	Damon Albarn	politics
3,477	21,531	On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.	Eberhard Weber	famous
3,807	2,311	Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.	Marissa Mayer	amazing
6,095	9,629	If you've ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck.	Jeff Foxworthy	change
3,292	58,609	Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.	Billy Graham	religion
6,001	8,012	When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.	Maya Lin	business
11,233	54,950	I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.	Gerhard Schroder	politics
3,606	20,842	When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I've had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople.	Jenson Button	family
6,640	9,306	We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.	Peter Drucker	change
9,694	72,560	I don't know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I ain't even never been to a wedding.	Mike Epps	wedding
8,717	40,430	Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership.	Helle Thorning-Schmidt	leadership
5,192	22,483	In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.	Al Yankovic	fear
11,604	72,437	I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.	Charles Schumer	war
2,062	30,288	The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.	J. C. Watts	government
11,710	9,343	All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.	Gilbert K. Chesterton	change
250	4,346	The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.	Jerry Saltz	art
5,692	62,941	Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.	Jack Kevorkian	society
8,799	58,508	Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.	George Washington	religion
3,146	30,182	Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.	Woodrow Wilson	government
6,369	33,927	Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.	Augustine Birrell	history
1,997	23,760	One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.	Anish Kapoor	food
7,550	67,430	And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that's why I think it is an urgent issue.	David Kay	technology
9,971	10,353	Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.	Erykah Badu	computers
8,271	42,163	An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.	Robert A. Heinlein	life
10,619	30,342	I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.	Doris Lessing	government
5,029	63,419	The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.	C. J. Cherryh	society
4,989	56,012	Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.	Knute Rockne	positive
2,185	62,777	Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.	Jack Kingston	society
103	25,048	That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.	Lester Maddox	freedom
11,611	24,688	But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.	Boris Johnson	freedom
164	42,980	The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.	Anais Nin	love
892	43,536	If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.	Princess Diana	love
8,500	31,916	Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.	Leo Rosten	happiness
1,265	2,829	I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripa's job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show.	Ellie Kemper	amazing
9,837	68,545	We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.	Thomas Merton	time
4,689	47,722	Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.	Jerry Saltz	money
6,584	63,749	The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.	Ernest Hemingway	sports
1,624	48,945	In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!	Angie Dickinson	morning
9,063	67,433	These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.	Mick Taylor	technology
1,620	32,734	Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.	Daniel Kahneman	happiness
5,566	55,034	I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.	Adlai E. Stevenson	politics
9,536	54,601	A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.	John Drinkwater	poetry
2,927	62,165	I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.	Joshua Lederberg	science
7,311	15,991	Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.	Noam Chomsky	education
6,335	29,750	The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.	Vladimir Lenin	government
4,246	58,604	A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.	Richard Dawkins	religion
3,595	46,779	My daily schedule is quite hectic, but I have to put my health first in order to be the best mom and wife I can be.	Ellen Pompeo	mom
11,100	24,995	There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.	Thomas B. Macaulay	freedom
7,268	65,944	Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.	Fernando Pessoa	success
10,124	73,428	A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.	Eleanor Roosevelt	women
896	26,990	If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.	Michelle Obama	future
9,408	23,005	I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.	Matthew Rhys	fitness
7,448	33,282	Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.	Julie Bishop	health
1,294	23,454	Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.	Mehmet Oz	food
1,722	6,837	The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.	Heraclitus	best
6,564	19,361	The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.	Clarence Darrow	faith
5,281	45,174	Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.	Kin Hubbard	men
9,143	48,134	The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.	Mario Batali	money
4,938	4,304	Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.	Jerry Saltz	art
5,404	26,387	We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.	Sheena Easton	funny
9,161	18,926	I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.	Shinzo Abe	failure
5,674	41,164	Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.	Marcus V. Pollio	learning
8,749	21,704	I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal.	Ashley Madekwe	famous
7,931	31,935	One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.	Rita Mae Brown	happiness
2,374	29,473	Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.	Anne Lamott	good
9,678	44,446	In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.	Phil Collins	marriage
2,968	64,668	There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.	Doris Humphrey	strength
10,381	39,003	Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.	e. e. cummings	knowledge
9,830	55,685	Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.	Richard Lamm	politics
4,894	21,689	You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.	Oscar De La Hoya	famous
6,744	34,141	If you think you have it tough, read history books.	Bill Maher	history
6,914	2,773	I definitely look up to Meryl Streep because she's been in so many amazing movies, and I just think that she's one of the greatest actresses out there. I also look up to Jennifer Lawrence, especially knowing her and knowing that she is so awesome and so nice.	Willow Shields	amazing
6,580	51,750	Gossip is nature's telephone.	Sholom Aleichem	nature
3,396	74,275	There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.	Jack Nicholson	women
316	62,683	We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.	Joseph Howe	smile
3,740	48,889	It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.	John Lewis	morning
9,231	49,423	If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.	Daniel Craig	movies
873	63,526	My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.	Anna Kendrick	society
4,082	31,671	Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.	R. Buckminster Fuller	great
1,507	62,991	Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.	Stephen Harper	society
805	12,122	When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.	Frank Butler	dad
6,768	26,287	I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.	Frank Carson	funny
9,543	64,521	Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.	Helen Keller	strength
9,349	52,260	You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.	Franklin P. Jones	parenting
1,189	25,003	My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.	Mike Wallace	freedom
9,291	988	I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.	Joyce Maynard	age
5,200	74,329	As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.	Joseph Conrad	women
9,394	55,306	I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It's really above and beyond American politics.	Benjamin Netanyahu	politics
7,421	44,764	My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.	Jared Harris	marriage
5,551	31,101	No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.	Theodore Roosevelt	great
8,399	71,833	Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.	Otto von Bismarck	war
10,530	49,258	I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.	Christina Aguilera	movies
983	18,846	Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.	Richard V. Allen	failure
3,674	68,182	If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.	Bruce Lee	time
5,900	19,558	If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?	Graham Greene	faith

9,840

57,309

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.

Joe Biden

power

6,646

52,984

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

David Sarnoff

peace

9,038

49,604

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

movies

3,652

18,113

In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.

Alberto Moravia

experience

10,945

1,096

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

alone

10,980

55,716

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

Damon Albarn

politics

3,477

21,531

On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.

Eberhard Weber

famous

3,807

2,311

Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.

Marissa Mayer

amazing

6,095

9,629

If you've ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck.

Jeff Foxworthy

change

3,292

58,609

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

Billy Graham

religion

6,001

8,012

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

Maya Lin

business

11,233

54,950

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

Gerhard Schroder

politics

3,606

20,842

When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I've had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople.

Jenson Button

family

6,640

9,306

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Peter Drucker

change

9,694

72,560

I don't know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I ain't even never been to a wedding.

Mike Epps

wedding

8,717

40,430

Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

leadership

5,192

22,483

In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.

Al Yankovic

fear

11,604

72,437

I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.

Charles Schumer

war

2,062

30,288

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

J. C. Watts

government

11,710

9,343

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

change

250

4,346

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.

Jerry Saltz

art

5,692

62,941

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

Jack Kevorkian

society

8,799

58,508

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

George Washington

religion

3,146

30,182

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Woodrow Wilson

government

6,369

33,927

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

Augustine Birrell

history

1,997

23,760

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.

Anish Kapoor

food

7,550

67,430

And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that's why I think it is an urgent issue.

David Kay

technology

9,971

10,353

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

Erykah Badu

computers

8,271

42,163

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Robert A. Heinlein

life

10,619

30,342

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

Doris Lessing

government

5,029

63,419

The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.

C. J. Cherryh

society

4,989

56,012

Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.

Knute Rockne

positive

2,185

62,777

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

Jack Kingston

society

103

25,048

That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.

Lester Maddox

freedom

11,611

24,688

But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.

Boris Johnson

freedom

164

42,980

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anais Nin

love

892

43,536

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Princess Diana

love

8,500

31,916

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Leo Rosten

happiness

1,265

2,829

I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripa's job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show.

Ellie Kemper

amazing

9,837

68,545

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

Thomas Merton

time

4,689

47,722

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

Jerry Saltz

money

6,584

63,749

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Ernest Hemingway

sports

1,624

48,945

In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!

Angie Dickinson

morning

9,063

67,433

These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.

Mick Taylor

technology

1,620

32,734

Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.

Daniel Kahneman

happiness

5,566

55,034

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Adlai E. Stevenson

politics

9,536

54,601

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

John Drinkwater

poetry

2,927

62,165

I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.

Joshua Lederberg

science

7,311

15,991

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Noam Chomsky

education

6,335

29,750

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

Vladimir Lenin

government

4,246

58,604

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

Richard Dawkins

religion

3,595

46,779

My daily schedule is quite hectic, but I have to put my health first in order to be the best mom and wife I can be.

Ellen Pompeo

mom

11,100

24,995

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

Thomas B. Macaulay

freedom

7,268

65,944

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

Fernando Pessoa

success

10,124

73,428

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

women

896

26,990

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

Michelle Obama

future

9,408

23,005

I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.

Matthew Rhys

fitness

7,448

33,282

Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.

Julie Bishop

health

1,294

23,454

Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.

Mehmet Oz

food

1,722

6,837

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Heraclitus

best

6,564

19,361

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

Clarence Darrow

faith

5,281

45,174

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Kin Hubbard

men

9,143

48,134

The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.

Mario Batali

money

4,938

4,304

Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.

Jerry Saltz

art

5,404

26,387

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

Sheena Easton

funny

9,161

18,926

I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.

Shinzo Abe

failure

5,674

41,164

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.

Marcus V. Pollio

learning

8,749

21,704

I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal.

Ashley Madekwe

famous

7,931

31,935

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Rita Mae Brown

happiness

2,374

29,473

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

Anne Lamott

good

9,678

44,446

In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.

Phil Collins

marriage

2,968

64,668

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.

Doris Humphrey

strength

10,381

39,003

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

e. e. cummings

knowledge

9,830

55,685

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Richard Lamm

politics

4,894

21,689

You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.

Oscar De La Hoya

famous

6,744

34,141

If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Bill Maher

history

6,914

2,773

I definitely look up to Meryl Streep because she's been in so many amazing movies, and I just think that she's one of the greatest actresses out there. I also look up to Jennifer Lawrence, especially knowing her and knowing that she is so awesome and so nice.

Willow Shields

amazing

6,580

51,750

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Sholom Aleichem

nature

3,396

74,275

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

Jack Nicholson

women

316

62,683

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

Joseph Howe

smile

3,740

48,889

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.

John Lewis

morning

9,231

49,423

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

Daniel Craig

movies

873

63,526

My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Anna Kendrick

society

4,082

31,671

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

R. Buckminster Fuller

great

1,507

62,991

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.

Stephen Harper

society

805

12,122

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

Frank Butler

dad

6,768

26,287

I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.

Frank Carson

funny

9,543

64,521

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Helen Keller

strength

9,349

52,260

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Franklin P. Jones

parenting

1,189

25,003

My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.

Mike Wallace

freedom

9,291

988

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

Joyce Maynard

age

5,200

74,329

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

Joseph Conrad

women

9,394

55,306

I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It's really above and beyond American politics.

Benjamin Netanyahu

politics

7,421

44,764

My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.

Jared Harris

marriage

5,551

31,101

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Theodore Roosevelt

great

8,399

71,833

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Otto von Bismarck

war

10,530

49,258

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

Christina Aguilera

movies

983

18,846

Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.

Richard V. Allen

failure

3,674

68,182

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Bruce Lee

time

5,900

19,558

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Graham Greene

faith