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3,348	17,257	As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it.	Jesse Tyler Ferguson	equality
1,888	19,215	A library implies an act of faith.	Victor Hugo	faith
7,169	67,485	This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.	Adolf Galland	technology
6,686	3,192	As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.	Shelley Berman	anger
8,076	26,942	I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.	Whitney Houston	future
6,465	46,757	My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother.	Michael Kors	mom
6,113	23,738	I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs.	Emilio Estevez	food
9,189	62,419	And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	smile
4,915	60,005	I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.	ASAP Rocky	respect
9,842	25,632	The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.	Atifete Jahjaga	friendship
5,699	52,020	Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.	Robinson Jeffers	nature
1,944	40,627	Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.	Rabindranath Tagore	learning
3,287	65,817	The best revenge in the world is success.	Suge Knight	success
1,225	57,235	Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.	Marc Andreessen	power
11,027	28,727	We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.	Mother Teresa	good
5,243	1,191	Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.	Carl Jung	alone
2,985	21,373	I follow the most random people on Twitter. I follow famous people like Khloe Kardashian, who surprisingly makes really funny tweets all the time.	Chloe Moretz	famous
2,138	38,881	Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.	Alexis Carrel	jealousy
5,982	34,558	Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.	David Cronenberg	history
879	2,159	My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.	Barbara Corcoran	amazing
10,222	48,639	That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.	Daniel Clowes	morning
2,627	39,067	The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.	Leo Buscaglia	knowledge
8,411	18,549	Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.	Scott Adams	failure
3,581	8,701	The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate.	Steve Case	car
8,551	4,925	If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.	Teri Garr	attitude
976	7,677	No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.	J. Paul Getty	business
141	46,830	To this day, my mom's unsinkable spirit is an inspiration to me. For nearly thirty years, she's worked at the Library of Congress. Everyone knows Sameha simply as 'Sami.' Along with 500 miles of shelved books, her closest friendships are cataloged in that library. They are as much the value of work to my mom as is the work itself.	Hoda Kotb	mom
6,650	69,994	When trust improves, the mood improves.	Fernando Flores	trust
2,127	60,779	Maybe I'm naively romantic, but I do believe that spice and excitement doesn't stop once a couple gets together.	Stana Katic	romantic
2,873	6,822	In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.	Robert Hall	best
948	959	I also find it interesting that a lot of people in their 30s are not married and don't have kids. There are a lot of people in this age bracket that are out there dating and trying to find love. And I never thought that at my age I would be.	John Stamos	age
1,828	36,964	No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	humor
942	67,290	Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.	Bruce Jackson	technology
7,380	1,683	The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.	William Temple	alone
5,556	653	Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.	Russell Baker	age
3,404	21,154	I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.	John Mayer	famous
9,445	23,126	Food should be fun.	Thomas Keller	food
4,783	63,681	I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.	Samantha Morton	society
3,368	18,692	We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.	Rupert Everett	failure
10,557	73,107	Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.	Joseph Roux	wisdom
402	16,552	The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.	John Engler	education
3,169	8,276	I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.	Donny Osmond	business
9,046	42,187	What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.	Mark Twain	life
7,274	37,724	The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.	Henry George	imagination
855	39,192	Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	knowledge
2,393	19,353	Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.	William Ames	faith
6,163	72,463	For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.	Conrad Black	war
6,687	56,796	All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.	Edmund Burke	power
3,215	953	Even in this day and age, if you're not married, there are people who are like, 'Awww! Don't worry, it'll happen for you someday.'	Kristen Wiig	age
3,782	47,912	False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.	Joseph de Maistre	money
2,850	63,349	If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.	Larry Page	society
8,244	2,608	We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.	Neil Tennant	amazing
6,905	44,821	Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.	Jared Polis	marriage
5,987	16,606	Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.	Joel Coen	education
24	5,406	There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.	John Kenneth Galbraith	beauty
9,616	9,744	Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.	Primo Levi	change
4,287	69,645	I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.	Lake Bell	travel
10,815	8,128	That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.	Steven Morrissey	business
3,653	17,540	All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.	Samuel Johnson	experience
6,867	39,519	I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.	Talib Kweli	knowledge
7,277	28,069	The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.	Charles L. Allen	god
10,771	28,289	If there is no God, everything is permitted.	Fyodor Dostoevsky	god
1,515	45,357	It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.	George S. Patton	men
4,724	37,020	I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.	Betty White	humor
11,120	64,152	That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.	Suzanne Fields	sports
4,541	68,024	I feel like I still am struggling in a lot of different ways. I still have to fight for certain things. Certain jobs. At least I'm working and I'm thankful for that.	Gina Gershon	thankful
11,099	71,719	The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.	Ted Nugent	war
358	16,864	More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.	Simon Mainwaring	environmental
11,445	11,464	The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.	Tania Raymonde	cool
781	38,791	Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.	Bobby Ray Inman	intelligence
11,568	36,379	I still believe in a place called Hope.	William J. Clinton	hope
110	74,268	Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.	Marguerite Duras	women
9,389	6,280	The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.	W. C. Fields	best
9,079	39,715	There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of use as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.	Shakti Gawain	knowledge
5,409	22,521	Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.	Harry Browne	fear
6,577	45,676	Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.	Lucius Annaeus Seneca	men
11,447	71,895	War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.	James Madison	war
321	74,373	Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.	Ruth Bader Ginsburg	women
613	43,317	I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.	Robert Fulghum	love
9,516	15,443	Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.	David Copperfield	dreams
626	27,896	Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.	Corrie Ten Boom	god
4,884	48,299	The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.	Alice Cooper	morning
9,981	26,422	Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.	Norm MacDonald	funny
8,383	39,893	It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.	Christopher Shays	knowledge
8,901	24,939	I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.	Justin Timberlake	freedom
9,152	3,271	It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.	Janos Kadar	anger
3,704	50,957	There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.	Jimmy Buffett	music
3,017	59,048	Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.	Douglas William Jerrold	religion
472	73,499	I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.	Georgia O'Keeffe	women
2,460	24,339	I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.	Ron Paul	freedom
5,392	53,320	Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.	Serj Tankian	peace
10,391	20,508	I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.	Rick Perry	family
2,129	40,588	The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.	Fred Astaire	learning
9,793	64,623	A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.	Indira Gandhi	strength
506	33,751	It's time for Haitians to have access to health care. It's time to open our borders to the Haitian diaspora, open our markets to the world. It's time to open our country to potential investors.	Michel Martelly	health
10,402	30,655	Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.	Gouverneur Morris	government
3,438	30,499	A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.	Thomas Francis Meagher	government
2,984	54,010	I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.	Edgar Allan Poe	poetry
8,106	7,196	My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.	Flip Wilson	birthday
6,610	11,279	I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because that's where I practice and write and listen and study.	Esperanza Spalding	cool

3,348

17,257

As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

equality

1,888

19,215

A library implies an act of faith.

Victor Hugo

faith

7,169

67,485

This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.

Adolf Galland

technology

6,686

3,192

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.

Shelley Berman

anger

8,076

26,942

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

Whitney Houston

future

6,465

46,757

My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother.

Michael Kors

mom

6,113

23,738

I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs.

Emilio Estevez

food

9,189

62,419

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

smile

4,915

60,005

I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.

ASAP Rocky

respect

9,842

25,632

The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.

Atifete Jahjaga

friendship

5,699

52,020

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

Robinson Jeffers

nature

1,944

40,627

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabindranath Tagore

learning

3,287

65,817

The best revenge in the world is success.

Suge Knight

success

1,225

57,235

Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.

Marc Andreessen

power

11,027

28,727

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Mother Teresa

good

5,243

1,191

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Carl Jung

alone

2,985

21,373

I follow the most random people on Twitter. I follow famous people like Khloe Kardashian, who surprisingly makes really funny tweets all the time.

Chloe Moretz

famous

2,138

38,881

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

Alexis Carrel

jealousy

5,982

34,558

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.

David Cronenberg

history

879

2,159

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.

Barbara Corcoran

amazing

10,222

48,639

That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

Daniel Clowes

morning

2,627

39,067

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Leo Buscaglia

knowledge

8,411

18,549

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

Scott Adams

failure

3,581

8,701

The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate.

Steve Case

car

8,551

4,925

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

Teri Garr

attitude

976

7,677

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

J. Paul Getty

business

141

46,830

To this day, my mom's unsinkable spirit is an inspiration to me. For nearly thirty years, she's worked at the Library of Congress. Everyone knows Sameha simply as 'Sami.' Along with 500 miles of shelved books, her closest friendships are cataloged in that library. They are as much the value of work to my mom as is the work itself.

Hoda Kotb

mom

6,650

69,994

When trust improves, the mood improves.

Fernando Flores

trust

2,127

60,779

Maybe I'm naively romantic, but I do believe that spice and excitement doesn't stop once a couple gets together.

Stana Katic

romantic

2,873

6,822

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

Robert Hall

best

948

959

I also find it interesting that a lot of people in their 30s are not married and don't have kids. There are a lot of people in this age bracket that are out there dating and trying to find love. And I never thought that at my age I would be.

John Stamos

age

1,828

36,964

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

humor

942

67,290

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

Bruce Jackson

technology

7,380

1,683

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

William Temple

alone

5,556

653

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

Russell Baker

age

3,404

21,154

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.

John Mayer

famous

9,445

23,126

Food should be fun.

Thomas Keller

food

4,783

63,681

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

Samantha Morton

society

3,368

18,692

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.

Rupert Everett

failure

10,557

73,107

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Joseph Roux

wisdom

402

16,552

The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.

John Engler

education

3,169

8,276

I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.

Donny Osmond

business

9,046

42,187

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Mark Twain

life

7,274

37,724

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

Henry George

imagination

855

39,192

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

knowledge

2,393

19,353

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

William Ames

faith

6,163

72,463

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.

Conrad Black

war

6,687

56,796

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Edmund Burke

power

3,215

953

Even in this day and age, if you're not married, there are people who are like, 'Awww! Don't worry, it'll happen for you someday.'

Kristen Wiig

age

3,782

47,912

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Joseph de Maistre

money

2,850

63,349

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

Larry Page

society

8,244

2,608

We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.

Neil Tennant

amazing

6,905

44,821

Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.

Jared Polis

marriage

5,987

16,606

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.

Joel Coen

education

24

5,406

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

John Kenneth Galbraith

beauty

9,616

9,744

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

Primo Levi

change

4,287

69,645

I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.

Lake Bell

travel

10,815

8,128

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

Steven Morrissey

business

3,653

17,540

All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.

Samuel Johnson

experience

6,867

39,519

I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.

Talib Kweli

knowledge

7,277

28,069

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

Charles L. Allen

god

10,771

28,289

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

god

1,515

45,357

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

George S. Patton

men

4,724

37,020

I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.

Betty White

humor

11,120

64,152

That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.

Suzanne Fields

sports

4,541

68,024

I feel like I still am struggling in a lot of different ways. I still have to fight for certain things. Certain jobs. At least I'm working and I'm thankful for that.

Gina Gershon

thankful

11,099

71,719

The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.

Ted Nugent

war

358

16,864

More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.

Simon Mainwaring

environmental

11,445

11,464

The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.

Tania Raymonde

cool

781

38,791

Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.

Bobby Ray Inman

intelligence

11,568

36,379

I still believe in a place called Hope.

William J. Clinton

hope

110

74,268

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

Marguerite Duras

women

9,389

6,280

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

W. C. Fields

best

9,079

39,715

There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of use as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.

Shakti Gawain

knowledge

5,409

22,521

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

Harry Browne

fear

6,577

45,676

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

men

11,447

71,895

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

James Madison

war

321

74,373

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

women

613

43,317

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert Fulghum

love

9,516

15,443

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

David Copperfield

dreams

626

27,896

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Corrie Ten Boom

god

4,884

48,299

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.

Alice Cooper

morning

9,981

26,422

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

Norm MacDonald

funny

8,383

39,893

It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.

Christopher Shays

knowledge

8,901

24,939

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

Justin Timberlake

freedom

9,152

3,271

It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.

Janos Kadar

anger

3,704

50,957

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.

Jimmy Buffett

music

3,017

59,048

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

Douglas William Jerrold

religion

472

73,499

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

Georgia O'Keeffe

women

2,460

24,339

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

Ron Paul

freedom

5,392

53,320

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

Serj Tankian

peace

10,391

20,508

I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.

Rick Perry

family

2,129

40,588

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Fred Astaire

learning

9,793

64,623

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

Indira Gandhi

strength

506

33,751

It's time for Haitians to have access to health care. It's time to open our borders to the Haitian diaspora, open our markets to the world. It's time to open our country to potential investors.

Michel Martelly

health

10,402

30,655

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

Gouverneur Morris

government

3,438

30,499

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

Thomas Francis Meagher

government

2,984

54,010

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Edgar Allan Poe

poetry

8,106

7,196

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

Flip Wilson

birthday

6,610

11,279

I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because that's where I practice and write and listen and study.

Esperanza Spalding

cool