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1,173	55,723	I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.	David Guterson	politics
10,592	11,893	To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.	Janeane Garofalo	courage
9,218	4,224	Life is short, the art long.	Hippocrates	art
7,343	72,801	A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.	Francis Bacon	wisdom
9,858	29,449	Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.	Bertrand Russell	good
1,148	59,690	We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.	Pope Benedict XVI	respect
5,393	62,620	People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.	Lee Westwood	smile
7,584	59,613	Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.	Sargent Shriver	respect
9,405	26,001	I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.	Leonardo DiCaprio	funny
7,693	73,662	I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.	Demetri Martin	women
2,497	66,731	My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.	Josh Duhamel	teacher
4,961	53,173	My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.	Thomas Hardy	peace
4,845	34,224	Sometimes - history needs a push.	Vladimir Lenin	history
7,616	74,505	As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.	Irvin S. Cobb	work
7,952	31,521	Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.	Lewis Carroll	great
9,062	51,592	You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.	Orison Swett Marden	nature
6,170	26,376	It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!	Garth Brooks	funny
10,495	52,417	If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.	Mahatma Gandhi	patience
4,647	58,728	To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.	Eric Hoffer	religion
6,892	55,395	I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.	Fiona Apple	politics
7,189	72,531	Our dog died from licking our wedding picture.	Phyllis Diller	wedding
7,754	37,414	Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.	Stephen Leacock	imagination
6,280	50,952	Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.	Maynard James Keenan	music
9,002	52,182	When I get recognized for 'Twilight,' it's usually a teenage girl, and they're usually really loud. So it certainly feels like I get recognized the most from that, but it could just be because of the nature of how vocal those fans are.	Anna Kendrick	nature
5,690	34,460	When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.	John Malkovich	history
891	5,031	I saw 'Taxi Driver,' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.	Michael Biehn	attitude
11,723	17,678	The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.	Tiger Woods	experience
11,248	21,534	Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in 'E.T.' My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you can't go anywhere.	Henry Thomas	famous
11,405	2,788	I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.	Guy Clark	amazing
5,057	7,451	I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.	Thomas Paine	business
9,122	25,740	Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.	P. J. O'Rourke	funny
9,754	75,030	An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.	Gertrude Stein	work
1,898	40,893	By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.	Nate Silver	learning
1,612	66,487	Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.	Marcus Tullius Cicero	teacher
2,224	24,258	Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.	Brad Thor	freedom
7,576	65,952	I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.	Hugh Laurie	success
3,903	9,811	The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.	Susan Sontag	change
5,663	36,617	Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.	Nancy Reagan	hope
8,866	349	I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.	John Irving	age
6,948	55,295	I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.	David Mamet	politics
1,484	63,412	Our whole society is instantaneous.	Bryan Cranston	society
2,388	46,868	My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.	Donal Logue	mom
8,639	36,064	I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.	Pope John Paul II	hope
4,478	6,708	A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.	Mikhail Bakunin	best
6,330	67,324	I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.	Robert Ballard	technology
8,112	60,428	The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.	Havelock Ellis	romantic
2,868	21,617	I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.	Jessica Cutler	famous
7,021	43,198	If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.	Ray Bradbury	love
7,544	58,490	Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.	Mary Garden	religion
4,194	43,258	Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.	Henry David Thoreau	love
6,373	56,783	It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.	Herbert Hoover	power
9,255	38,223	Every song you're trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that I'm really drawn to are inspirational, songs that lift you and that everybody can relate to no matter where you're from.	Rodney Atkins	inspirational
3,269	54,139	I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.	Elizabeth Edwards	poetry
9,380	42,185	There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.	Oscar Wilde	life
2,227	20,089	I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.	Jessica Lange	family
11,452	53,199	There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our horses. My rescue ranch is is where I feel the most at peace and where I'm reminded of the simple things in life and let the chaos of my crazy work life fade away.	Kelly Clarkson	peace
9,937	12,932	I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.	Patrick Duffy	dad
5,262	16,453	To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.	John Dickey	education
10,118	27,654	God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.	Francis Bacon	gardening
10,056	61,401	Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	science
7,273	56,384	From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.	Mary C. Jones	positive
8,965	36,660	Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting!	Andy Cohen	hope
7,237	58,082	Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.	John Schlesinger	relationship
1,343	58,503	We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.	Dalai Lama	religion
5,049	46,395	My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.	Michael Phelps	mom
3,439	57,581	I don't care what people say about my relationship I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music.	Katy Perry	relationship
6,332	70,358	I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.	Heather Wilson	trust
1,528	33,696	My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.	Alan Thicke	health
10,298	22,084	The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.	George Saunders	fear
7,848	61,441	Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.	Arthur M. Schlesinger	science
5,125	60,209	I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.	Penelope Cruz	respect
6,424	23,483	Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.	Mario Batali	food
9,338	20,283	If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want.	Heidi Klum	family
5,993	17,067	People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.	Linda Ellerbee	equality
8,468	46,106	The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.	George Berkeley	men
6,919	37,520	For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.	Arthur Conan Doyle	imagination
10,628	21,915	The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.	Johnny Depp	fear
2,213	3,821	Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.	Robert Smithson	art
7,903	27,002	Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'	Rick Perry	future
7,767	19,497	I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.	Jon Meacham	faith
3,994	44,802	Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.	Arlie Russell Hochschild	marriage
1,975	17,843	Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.	Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach	experience
9,043	8,264	I went onto reality TV as a business decision.	Bethenny Frankel	business
9,759	63,336	The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.	Salman Rushdie	society
9,620	72,905	Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	wisdom
10,809	72,723	A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.	John C. Maxwell	wisdom
11,527	902	To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.	Josh Radnor	age
10,876	38,648	This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.	Bob Graham	intelligence
4,350	64,360	A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.	Ronald Graham	sports
6,169	6,663	Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.	Alfred North Whitehead	best
65	14,642	By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.	Steven Chu	design
3,626	54,811	Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.	Aristotle	politics
5,995	15,176	The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.	Samuel Johnson	dreams
6,594	55,771	Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.	Gary Ackerman	politics
10,549	23,513	I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period.	Bobby Flay	food
3,732	45,381	Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.	Mahatma Gandhi	men
2,981	48,052	I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.	Harlan Coben	money
8,990	10,334	Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.	Andy Rooney	computers
7,121	63,205	America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.	Peter Kropotkin	society
6,071	45,026	I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.	Peter Diamandis	medical

1,173

55,723

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

David Guterson

politics

10,592

11,893

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

Janeane Garofalo

courage

9,218

4,224

Life is short, the art long.

Hippocrates

art

7,343

72,801

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Francis Bacon

wisdom

9,858

29,449

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Bertrand Russell

good

1,148

59,690

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

Pope Benedict XVI

respect

5,393

62,620

People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.

Lee Westwood

smile

7,584

59,613

Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.

Sargent Shriver

respect

9,405

26,001

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

Leonardo DiCaprio

funny

7,693

73,662

I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.

Demetri Martin

women

2,497

66,731

My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.

Josh Duhamel

teacher

4,961

53,173

My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.

Thomas Hardy

peace

4,845

34,224

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Vladimir Lenin

history

7,616

74,505

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

Irvin S. Cobb

work

7,952

31,521

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

Lewis Carroll

great

9,062

51,592

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Orison Swett Marden

nature

6,170

26,376

It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!

Garth Brooks

funny

10,495

52,417

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Mahatma Gandhi

patience

4,647

58,728

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Eric Hoffer

religion

6,892

55,395

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

Fiona Apple

politics

7,189

72,531

Our dog died from licking our wedding picture.

Phyllis Diller

wedding

7,754

37,414

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

Stephen Leacock

imagination

6,280

50,952

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

Maynard James Keenan

music

9,002

52,182

When I get recognized for 'Twilight,' it's usually a teenage girl, and they're usually really loud. So it certainly feels like I get recognized the most from that, but it could just be because of the nature of how vocal those fans are.

Anna Kendrick

nature

5,690

34,460

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

John Malkovich

history

891

5,031

I saw 'Taxi Driver,' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.

Michael Biehn

attitude

11,723

17,678

The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.

Tiger Woods

experience

11,248

21,534

Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in 'E.T.' My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you can't go anywhere.

Henry Thomas

famous

11,405

2,788

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

Guy Clark

amazing

5,057

7,451

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Paine

business

9,122

25,740

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

P. J. O'Rourke

funny

9,754

75,030

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

Gertrude Stein

work

1,898

40,893

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Nate Silver

learning

1,612

66,487

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

teacher

2,224

24,258

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

Brad Thor

freedom

7,576

65,952

I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.

Hugh Laurie

success

3,903

9,811

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Susan Sontag

change

5,663

36,617

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.

Nancy Reagan

hope

8,866

349

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

John Irving

age

6,948

55,295

I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.

David Mamet

politics

1,484

63,412

Our whole society is instantaneous.

Bryan Cranston

society

2,388

46,868

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

Donal Logue

mom

8,639

36,064

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.

Pope John Paul II

hope

4,478

6,708

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

Mikhail Bakunin

best

6,330

67,324

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

Robert Ballard

technology

8,112

60,428

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Havelock Ellis

romantic

2,868

21,617

I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.

Jessica Cutler

famous

7,021

43,198

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

love

7,544

58,490

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

Mary Garden

religion

4,194

43,258

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau

love

6,373

56,783

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Herbert Hoover

power

9,255

38,223

Every song you're trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that I'm really drawn to are inspirational, songs that lift you and that everybody can relate to no matter where you're from.

Rodney Atkins

inspirational

3,269

54,139

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

Elizabeth Edwards

poetry

9,380

42,185

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Oscar Wilde

life

2,227

20,089

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

Jessica Lange

family

11,452

53,199

There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our horses. My rescue ranch is is where I feel the most at peace and where I'm reminded of the simple things in life and let the chaos of my crazy work life fade away.

Kelly Clarkson

peace

9,937

12,932

I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.

Patrick Duffy

dad

5,262

16,453

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

John Dickey

education

10,118

27,654

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Francis Bacon

gardening

10,056

61,401

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

science

7,273

56,384

From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.

Mary C. Jones

positive

8,965

36,660

Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting!

Andy Cohen

hope

7,237

58,082

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

John Schlesinger

relationship

1,343

58,503

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Dalai Lama

religion

5,049

46,395

My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.

Michael Phelps

mom

3,439

57,581

I don't care what people say about my relationship I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music.

Katy Perry

relationship

6,332

70,358

I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.

Heather Wilson

trust

1,528

33,696

My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.

Alan Thicke

health

10,298

22,084

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.

George Saunders

fear

7,848

61,441

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

Arthur M. Schlesinger

science

5,125

60,209

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

Penelope Cruz

respect

6,424

23,483

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

Mario Batali

food

9,338

20,283

If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want.

Heidi Klum

family

5,993

17,067

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

Linda Ellerbee

equality

8,468

46,106

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

George Berkeley

men

6,919

37,520

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

Arthur Conan Doyle

imagination

10,628

21,915

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

Johnny Depp

fear

2,213

3,821

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Robert Smithson

art

7,903

27,002

Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'

Rick Perry

future

7,767

19,497

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.

Jon Meacham

faith

3,994

44,802

Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

marriage

1,975

17,843

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

experience

9,043

8,264

I went onto reality TV as a business decision.

Bethenny Frankel

business

9,759

63,336

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

Salman Rushdie

society

9,620

72,905

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

wisdom

10,809

72,723

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

John C. Maxwell

wisdom

11,527

902

To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.

Josh Radnor

age

10,876

38,648

This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.

Bob Graham

intelligence

4,350

64,360

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.

Ronald Graham

sports

6,169

6,663

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Alfred North Whitehead

best

65

14,642

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

Steven Chu

design

3,626

54,811

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Aristotle

politics

5,995

15,176

The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Samuel Johnson

dreams

6,594

55,771

Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

Gary Ackerman

politics

10,549

23,513

I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period.

Bobby Flay

food

3,732

45,381

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Mahatma Gandhi

men

2,981

48,052

I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

Harlan Coben

money

8,990

10,334

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

Andy Rooney

computers

7,121

63,205

America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

Peter Kropotkin

society

6,071

45,026

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

Peter Diamandis

medical