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10,410	6,478	No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.	Gilbert K. Chesterton	best
8,954	41,462	Working with David Gordon Green, and Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera, and Drew Barrymore, and all of those people - those are the best people in comedy to work with. Anna Faris. You know, that's my goal, to keep learning and to just keep working with the best people I can. And yeah, we do all hang out, and we all kind of know each other.	Ari Graynor	learning
352	74,222	My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.	Camille Paglia	women
9,698	34,358	I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.	Pat Robertson	history
5,774	45,439	Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.	Friedrich Nietzsche	men
2,292	16,613	Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.	Major Owens	education
288	61,467	Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.	Jay Leno	science
833	56,496	Power ought to serve as a check to power.	Charles de Secondat	power
7,259	72,782	To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.	Akhenaton	wisdom
4,245	9,327	Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.	Hubert H. Humphrey	change
9,805	62,578	I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.	Carl Hiaasen	smile
4,802	9,422	To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.	Vera Wang	change
3,407	23,855	The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet - not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what's No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation, and goes out and buys a hybrid car. Screw the hybrid cars. Don't eat hamburgers.	Maggie Q	food
4,334	60,990	We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.	Emma Thompson	sad
11,381	29,432	Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.	Mariska Hargitay	good
6,959	41,228	Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.	Albert J. Nock	learning
5,078	67,401	The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.	Kit Bond	technology
7,442	54,578	Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.	Philip Levine	poetry
7,986	69,042	Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.	Ani DiFranco	time
7,430	12,887	I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.	David Cone	dad
5,054	43,393	Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.	Albert Schweitzer	love
6,516	32,251	You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.	Vivien Leigh	happiness
9,047	36,678	Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.	Frank B. Kellogg	hope
11,704	64,392	I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.	Christopher Judge	sports
328	10,684	I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy.	Hugh Jackman	cool
8,820	39,438	I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.	William Glasser	knowledge
7,009	42,827	Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.	Arnold H. Glasow	life
10,129	6,182	I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.	Henry Ford	best
5,114	14,602	How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?	Michael Arad	design
7,170	31,424	Great things are done when men and mountains meet.	William Blake	great
1,464	32,582	I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.	Patricia Heaton	happiness
6,878	75,581	We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.	Lance Burton	christmas
8,774	39,323	How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.	Steve Harvey	knowledge
7,410	56,607	Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.	Benito Mussolini	power
8,149	54,436	I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.	Amber Tamblyn	poetry
10,538	50,637	We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.	Freddie Mercury	music
6,666	58,945	Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.	Hosea Ballou	religion
8,863	18,717	Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.	Demi Moore	failure
5,866	30,135	People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.	George W. Bush	government
10,739	50,862	I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.	Sting	music
8,915	19,337	I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.	Judy Collins	faith
6,160	36,684	'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.	Greg Kinnear	hope
3,092	42,162	We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.	Plato	life
10,393	25,534	Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.	Eustace Budgell	friendship
1,385	13,069	Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.	Stacie Orrico	dad
9,210	68,238	Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.	Winston Churchill	time
11,759	43,515	I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.	Anais Nin	love
1,435	1,746	My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.	Dirk Benedict	alone
3,754	45,393	A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	men
3,121	1,783	I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.	Brooke Shields	alone
4,986	5,083	There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.	Ed McMahon	attitude
8,907	36,661	Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.	William Shenstone	hope
2,768	39,466	Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.	Vera Farmiga	knowledge
5,963	4,957	I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.	Sade Adu	attitude
2,395	14,296	Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.	Christy Turlington	design
11,142	46,135	Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.	Edwin Louis Cole	men
6,380	73,827	The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.	Wilson Mizner	women
5,553	48,788	And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.	Erika Slezak	morning
10,293	41,156	Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.	Jessica Chastain	learning
6,000	6,904	The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.	Charles Lamb	best
2,857	72,361	I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad.	Dick Cheney	war
1,336	11,873	I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.	Wallis Simpson	courage
8,212	25,673	The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.	Natalie Wood	funny
7,403	74,752	Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.	Joel Osteen	work
2,302	32,789	So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.	DJ Jazzy Jeff	happiness
7,465	62,897	Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.	Victor Hugo	society
4,591	11,716	Courage, my friends 'tis not too late to build a better world.	Tommy Douglas	courage
1,895	31,437	A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.	Boris Yeltsin	great
8,002	23,156	I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.	David Soul	food
1,840	30,417	It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.	William Hague	government
10,731	44,740	No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.	Johnny Weissmuller	marriage
11,049	47,591	If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.	Edwin Land	money
5,297	70,153	The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.	Michael Ondaatje	trust
4,343	25,087	The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.	Mike Fitzpatrick	freedom
660	52,513	I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.	Kenny Loggins	patience
5,552	26,021	Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.	Demetri Martin	funny
3,420	4,750	Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.	Walter Scott	attitude
8,553	24,895	The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power.	Sloane Crosley	freedom
10,465	75,084	Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.	Nicolaus Copernicus	work
11,742	52,990	There can be no vulnerability without risk there can be no community without vulnerability there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.	M. Scott Peck	peace
3,986	48,925	The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.	Mary Antin	morning
5,355	51,713	If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.	Havelock Ellis	nature
9,044	13,934	There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.	Abu Bakr	death
5,868	22,100	Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.	Andrew Cohen	fear
6,453	46,028	Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.	Camille Paglia	men
7,306	20,745	My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.	Twyla Tharp	family
6,719	55,423	Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.	Paul Wellstone	politics
1,869	71,317	I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.	Donald Cargill	truth
5,841	44,495	My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.	Gary Bauer	marriage
3,772	31,041	My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.	Abdul Kalam	great
9,519	70,352	We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.	Dan Hawkins	trust
7,035	1,006	You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.	Wayne Dyer	alone
521	5,909	The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.	Daniel Hannan	beauty
8,170	6,291	The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.	Ayn Rand	best
3,009	44,371	Marriage is a religious and state issue.	Jim DeMint	marriage
10,297	60,030	People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.	Stephen Breyer	respect
6,774	9,608	In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.	Christina Aguilera	change
2,467	25,303	But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.	Oliver Wendell Holmes	friendship
368	30,916	It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.	Abraham Lincoln	great
6,267	35,442	If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.	Tommy Chong	home

10,410

6,478

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

best

8,954

41,462

Working with David Gordon Green, and Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera, and Drew Barrymore, and all of those people - those are the best people in comedy to work with. Anna Faris. You know, that's my goal, to keep learning and to just keep working with the best people I can. And yeah, we do all hang out, and we all kind of know each other.

Ari Graynor

learning

352

74,222

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

Camille Paglia

women

9,698

34,358

I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.

Pat Robertson

history

5,774

45,439

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

men

2,292

16,613

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

Major Owens

education

288

61,467

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.

Jay Leno

science

833

56,496

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Charles de Secondat

power

7,259

72,782

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

Akhenaton

wisdom

4,245

9,327

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Hubert H. Humphrey

change

9,805

62,578

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

Carl Hiaasen

smile

4,802

9,422

To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.

Vera Wang

change

3,407

23,855

The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet - not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what's No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation, and goes out and buys a hybrid car. Screw the hybrid cars. Don't eat hamburgers.

Maggie Q

food

4,334

60,990

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

Emma Thompson

sad

11,381

29,432

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

Mariska Hargitay

good

6,959

41,228

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

Albert J. Nock

learning

5,078

67,401

The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.

Kit Bond

technology

7,442

54,578

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.

Philip Levine

poetry

7,986

69,042

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Ani DiFranco

time

7,430

12,887

I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.

David Cone

dad

5,054

43,393

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

love

6,516

32,251

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

Vivien Leigh

happiness

9,047

36,678

Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.

Frank B. Kellogg

hope

11,704

64,392

I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.

Christopher Judge

sports

328

10,684

I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy.

Hugh Jackman

cool

8,820

39,438

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

William Glasser

knowledge

7,009

42,827

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Arnold H. Glasow

life

10,129

6,182

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Henry Ford

best

5,114

14,602

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

Michael Arad

design

7,170

31,424

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

William Blake

great

1,464

32,582

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

Patricia Heaton

happiness

6,878

75,581

We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.

Lance Burton

christmas

8,774

39,323

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

Steve Harvey

knowledge

7,410

56,607

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

Benito Mussolini

power

8,149

54,436

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.

Amber Tamblyn

poetry

10,538

50,637

We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.

Freddie Mercury

music

6,666

58,945

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Hosea Ballou

religion

8,863

18,717

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

Demi Moore

failure

5,866

30,135

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

George W. Bush

government

10,739

50,862

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

Sting

music

8,915

19,337

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

Judy Collins

faith

6,160

36,684

'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.

Greg Kinnear

hope

3,092

42,162

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

life

10,393

25,534

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

Eustace Budgell

friendship

1,385

13,069

Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.

Stacie Orrico

dad

9,210

68,238

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Winston Churchill

time

11,759

43,515

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

Anais Nin

love

1,435

1,746

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

Dirk Benedict

alone

3,754

45,393

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

men

3,121

1,783

I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.

Brooke Shields

alone

4,986

5,083

There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.

Ed McMahon

attitude

8,907

36,661

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

William Shenstone

hope

2,768

39,466

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Vera Farmiga

knowledge

5,963

4,957

I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.

Sade Adu

attitude

2,395

14,296

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.

Christy Turlington

design

11,142

46,135

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

Edwin Louis Cole

men

6,380

73,827

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

Wilson Mizner

women

5,553

48,788

And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.

Erika Slezak

morning

10,293

41,156

Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.

Jessica Chastain

learning

6,000

6,904

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

Charles Lamb

best

2,857

72,361

I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad.

Dick Cheney

war

1,336

11,873

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

Wallis Simpson

courage

8,212

25,673

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

Natalie Wood

funny

7,403

74,752

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

Joel Osteen

work

2,302

32,789

So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

happiness

7,465

62,897

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Victor Hugo

society

4,591

11,716

Courage, my friends 'tis not too late to build a better world.

Tommy Douglas

courage

1,895

31,437

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

Boris Yeltsin

great

8,002

23,156

I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.

David Soul

food

1,840

30,417

It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.

William Hague

government

10,731

44,740

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

Johnny Weissmuller

marriage

11,049

47,591

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.

Edwin Land

money

5,297

70,153

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.

Michael Ondaatje

trust

4,343

25,087

The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.

Mike Fitzpatrick

freedom

660

52,513

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

Kenny Loggins

patience

5,552

26,021

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

Demetri Martin

funny

3,420

4,750

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Walter Scott

attitude

8,553

24,895

The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power.

Sloane Crosley

freedom

10,465

75,084

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Nicolaus Copernicus

work

11,742

52,990

There can be no vulnerability without risk there can be no community without vulnerability there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

M. Scott Peck

peace

3,986

48,925

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

Mary Antin

morning

5,355

51,713

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

Havelock Ellis

nature

9,044

13,934

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

Abu Bakr

death

5,868

22,100

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

Andrew Cohen

fear

6,453

46,028

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

Camille Paglia

men

7,306

20,745

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.

Twyla Tharp

family

6,719

55,423

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

Paul Wellstone

politics

1,869

71,317

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

Donald Cargill

truth

5,841

44,495

My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.

Gary Bauer

marriage

3,772

31,041

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Abdul Kalam

great

9,519

70,352

We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.

Dan Hawkins

trust

7,035

1,006

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Wayne Dyer

alone

521

5,909

The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.

Daniel Hannan

beauty

8,170

6,291

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

Ayn Rand

best

3,009

44,371

Marriage is a religious and state issue.

Jim DeMint

marriage

10,297

60,030

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.

Stephen Breyer

respect

6,774

9,608

In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

Christina Aguilera

change

2,467

25,303

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

friendship

368

30,916

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Abraham Lincoln

great

6,267

35,442

If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.

Tommy Chong

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