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70	67,880	I remember the first time I saw the 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' video. I will never forget that day. I just wanted to see Kurt Cobain's face. I had a feeling he was very cute. But, I couldn't see his face. When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!	Shakira	teen
11,655	6,344	To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.	Dave Pelzer	best
1,147	23,564	My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!	Rachael Ray	food
1,644	37,455	A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.	Brad Henry	imagination
3,582	55,338	You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.	Rob McKenna	politics
10,818	21,747	Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.	Miguel de Cervantes	fear
2,592	62,967	In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.	Neil Armstrong	society
1,748	16,683	Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.	Mark Kennedy	education
212	30,277	Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.	Adlai E. Stevenson	government
9,099	68,779	Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.	Samuel Gompers	time
8,389	74,843	I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.	Andy Warhol	work
10,401	70,200	Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.	John Stossel	trust
1,811	65,596	Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.	Bobby Unser	success
10,184	69,672	Our covering ministry is Challenge for Christ ministries, and Travel the Road was solely our mission arm, designed to expose people to what missions are, then connect them with agencies that send people out.	Michael Scott	travel
11,328	1,012	Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying.	Martin Luther	alone
2,699	12,192	When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.	Robert Bly	dad
3,057	53,161	Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.	Daisaku Ikeda	peace
4,043	45,634	There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.	Margaret Thatcher	men
8,021	44,751	It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.	Mary Cheney	marriage
4,602	5,178	Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.	Charles Lamb	beauty
155	9,158	Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.	Owen Feltham	change
1,437	65,570	The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.	F. Scott Fitzgerald	success
10,136	39,040	To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.	Marilyn vos Savant	knowledge
5,454	20,275	As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.	Frances Conroy	family
9,040	1,071	The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.	Robert Anton Wilson	alone
11,487	42,814	Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.	Lydia Lunch	life
1,618	54,561	I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.	Anne Stevenson	poetry
2,072	40,642	Wisdom is learning what to overlook.	William James	learning
5,163	41,736	While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.	John Yoo	legal
4,688	35,417	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	home
7,564	52,936	A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.	Aesop	peace
5,430	2,441	It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.	Giancarlo Esposito	amazing
3,024	22,789	There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.	Russell Baker	finance
9,320	68,582	Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	time
122	37,469	We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.	Ray Bradbury	imagination
8,506	24,630	What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'	Marilyn vos Savant	freedom
8,151	25,953	Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!	Mitch Hedberg	funny
2,134	29,064	Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.	Plato	good
333	48,302	When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.	Lady Gaga	morning
9,862	8,326	I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.	Rip Torn	car
6,827	34,704	My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.	Melissa Gilbert	history
8,138	34,955	Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.	Mitt Romney	home
2,105	25,058	Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.	Benjamin Cardozo	freedom
10,312	42,192	To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	life
10,334	16,054	For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.	Liam Neeson	education
3,570	51,420	Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.	William Shakespeare	nature
8,099	31,080	I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.	Martin Luther	great
9,768	23,284	The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.	Martin Scorsese	food
2,894	7,551	No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.	Orison Swett Marden	business
9,313	16,359	Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!	Roger Moore	education
7,407	59,658	I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.	Mark Ruffalo	respect
2,445	41,533	Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.	legal
11,676	12,437	My dad is a marketing mastermind.	Serena Williams	dad
5,155	48,055	Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.	Alyssa Milano	money
8,346	10,295	Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.	Karen Black	communication
5,809	68,114	Time moves in one direction, memory in another.	William Gibson	time
1,647	13,716	Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.	Elie Wiesel	death
10,266	21,947	Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.	Bertrand Russell	fear
9,993	7,142	New Year's Day is every man's birthday.	Charles Lamb	birthday
11,012	39,125	Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.	John Adams	knowledge
2,772	64,022	I always separated sports and my personal life.	Carl Lewis	sports
10,008	55,731	We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.	John Green	politics
9,810	58,101	I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.	Kris Allen	relationship
8,193	11,943	I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.	Linda Ellerbee	courage
4,399	54,991	The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.	Theodore Roosevelt	politics
2,889	40,192	Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.	Dianne Feinstein	leadership
4,610	54,924	The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.	Gloria Steinem	politics
9,669	20,022	Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.	Cary Grant	family
10,179	21,682	In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.	Bobby Thomson	famous
5,060	58,958	Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?	Karen Armstrong	religion
9,169	55,310	In politics you learn to always smile.	Eliot Spitzer	politics
6,921	23,439	The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.	Shimon Peres	food
78	24,993	Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.	Kris Kristofferson	freedom
4,202	34,293	I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.	Tim Robbins	history
8,906	45,460	Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.	Marilyn Monroe	men
9,238	71,121	There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.	Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton	truth
2,303	31,382	I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.	John Boehner	great
9,105	43,877	Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.	Benjamin Franklin	marriage
6,018	20,688	The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.	Annie Leibovitz	family
11,075	33,098	The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.	Rutherford B. Hayes	health
10,209	54,873	Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.	John Kenneth Galbraith	politics
6,020	20,834	I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.	Harvey Weinstein	family
912	26,543	When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.	Scott Thompson	funny
5,449	60,862	My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.	Brooke Shields	sad
11,461	59,669	I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.	R. Lee Ermey	respect
9,520	74,224	There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.	Samuel Richardson	women
5,198	29,394	Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.	Aldous Huxley	good
8,759	45,103	I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader.	Tulsi Gabbard	medical
6,145	63,125	The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.	Jean de la Bruyere	society
6,856	12,018	It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.	Willy Brandt	courage
4,888	29,833	History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.	Thomas Jefferson	government
8,457	41,186	Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.	John Deacon	learning
1,042	56,493	No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.	Allen Klein	power
7,960	10,272	Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God.	Story Musgrave	communication
2,821	16,364	In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.	Tom Vilsack	education
6,414	68,029	I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.	Paula Poundstone	thankful
5,916	62,697	If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.	Jean-Francois Cope	smile
7,323	2,042	I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.	Kate Mara	amazing
10,785	38,421	The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.	Simone Weil	intelligence
642	31,336	Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.	Emma Goldman	great

70

67,880

I remember the first time I saw the 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' video. I will never forget that day. I just wanted to see Kurt Cobain's face. I had a feeling he was very cute. But, I couldn't see his face. When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!

Shakira

teen

11,655

6,344

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

Dave Pelzer

best

1,147

23,564

My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!

Rachael Ray

food

1,644

37,455

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

Brad Henry

imagination

3,582

55,338

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.

Rob McKenna

politics

10,818

21,747

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Miguel de Cervantes

fear

2,592

62,967

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Neil Armstrong

society

1,748

16,683

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

Mark Kennedy

education

212

30,277

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Adlai E. Stevenson

government

9,099

68,779

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

Samuel Gompers

time

8,389

74,843

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Andy Warhol

work

10,401

70,200

Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.

John Stossel

trust

1,811

65,596

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

Bobby Unser

success

10,184

69,672

Our covering ministry is Challenge for Christ ministries, and Travel the Road was solely our mission arm, designed to expose people to what missions are, then connect them with agencies that send people out.

Michael Scott

travel

11,328

1,012

Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Martin Luther

alone

2,699

12,192

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

Robert Bly

dad

3,057

53,161

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

Daisaku Ikeda

peace

4,043

45,634

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Margaret Thatcher

men

8,021

44,751

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

Mary Cheney

marriage

4,602

5,178

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Charles Lamb

beauty

155

9,158

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Owen Feltham

change

1,437

65,570

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

success

10,136

39,040

To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

knowledge

5,454

20,275

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

Frances Conroy

family

9,040

1,071

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

Robert Anton Wilson

alone

11,487

42,814

Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.

Lydia Lunch

life

1,618

54,561

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

Anne Stevenson

poetry

2,072

40,642

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

William James

learning

5,163

41,736

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.

John Yoo

legal

4,688

35,417

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

home

7,564

52,936

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Aesop

peace

5,430

2,441

It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.

Giancarlo Esposito

amazing

3,024

22,789

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

Russell Baker

finance

9,320

68,582

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

time

122

37,469

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Ray Bradbury

imagination

8,506

24,630

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'

Marilyn vos Savant

freedom

8,151

25,953

Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!

Mitch Hedberg

funny

2,134

29,064

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Plato

good

333

48,302

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

Lady Gaga

morning

9,862

8,326

I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.

Rip Torn

car

6,827

34,704

My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.

Melissa Gilbert

history

8,138

34,955

Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.

Mitt Romney

home

2,105

25,058

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Benjamin Cardozo

freedom

10,312

42,192

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

life

10,334

16,054

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.

Liam Neeson

education

3,570

51,420

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

William Shakespeare

nature

8,099

31,080

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Martin Luther

great

9,768

23,284

The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

Martin Scorsese

food

2,894

7,551

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

Orison Swett Marden

business

9,313

16,359

Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!

Roger Moore

education

7,407

59,658

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

Mark Ruffalo

respect

2,445

41,533

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

legal

11,676

12,437

My dad is a marketing mastermind.

Serena Williams

dad

5,155

48,055

Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.

Alyssa Milano

money

8,346

10,295

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

Karen Black

communication

5,809

68,114

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

William Gibson

time

1,647

13,716

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

Elie Wiesel

death

10,266

21,947

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Bertrand Russell

fear

9,993

7,142

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

Charles Lamb

birthday

11,012

39,125

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

John Adams

knowledge

2,772

64,022

I always separated sports and my personal life.

Carl Lewis

sports

10,008

55,731

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.

John Green

politics

9,810

58,101

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

Kris Allen

relationship

8,193

11,943

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

Linda Ellerbee

courage

4,399

54,991

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Theodore Roosevelt

politics

2,889

40,192

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

Dianne Feinstein

leadership

4,610

54,924

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

Gloria Steinem

politics

9,669

20,022

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

Cary Grant

family

10,179

21,682

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

Bobby Thomson

famous

5,060

58,958

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

Karen Armstrong

religion

9,169

55,310

In politics you learn to always smile.

Eliot Spitzer

politics

6,921

23,439

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.

Shimon Peres

food

78

24,993

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Kris Kristofferson

freedom

4,202

34,293

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

Tim Robbins

history

8,906

45,460

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Marilyn Monroe

men

9,238

71,121

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

truth

2,303

31,382

I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.

John Boehner

great

9,105

43,877

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Benjamin Franklin

marriage

6,018

20,688

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

Annie Leibovitz

family

11,075

33,098

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.

Rutherford B. Hayes

health

10,209

54,873

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

John Kenneth Galbraith

politics

6,020

20,834

I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.

Harvey Weinstein

family

912

26,543

When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.

Scott Thompson

funny

5,449

60,862

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

Brooke Shields

sad

11,461

59,669

I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.

R. Lee Ermey

respect

9,520

74,224

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Samuel Richardson

women

5,198

29,394

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Aldous Huxley

good

8,759

45,103

I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader.

Tulsi Gabbard

medical

6,145

63,125

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Jean de la Bruyere

society

6,856

12,018

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

Willy Brandt

courage

4,888

29,833

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Thomas Jefferson

government

8,457

41,186

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.

John Deacon

learning

1,042

56,493

No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.

Allen Klein

power

7,960

10,272

Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God.

Story Musgrave

communication

2,821

16,364

In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.

Tom Vilsack

education

6,414

68,029

I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.

Paula Poundstone

thankful

5,916

62,697

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

Jean-Francois Cope

smile

7,323

2,042

I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.

Kate Mara

amazing

10,785

38,421

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Simone Weil

intelligence

642

31,336

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

Emma Goldman

great