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9,798 | 60,647 | I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic. | Victoria Jackson | romantic |
8,380 | 61,148 | I'm a sucker for sad disco pop. | Sophie Ellis-Bextor | sad |
9,518 | 73,583 | Women hear rhythm differently than men. | Elvis Costello | women |
11,530 | 4,853 | I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach. | Damian Lewis | attitude |
6,086 | 32,558 | The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. | Frank Norris | happiness |
2,697 | 46,129 | Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible. | Richard J. Needham | men |
4,737 | 72,380 | The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell. | Fareed Zakaria | war |
1,415 | 9,374 | Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. | John Steinbeck | change |
1,803 | 48,243 | It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. | Aldous Huxley | morning |
3,843 | 68,487 | If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. | Edith Wharton | time |
8,896 | 39,531 | You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite. | Donna Shalala | knowledge |
11,640 | 65,343 | You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. | Zig Ziglar | success |
4,249 | 23,489 | I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking, not look at a sink full of dishes after you are done. Cleaning as you go helps keep away cross contamination and you avoid having food borne bacteria. | Cat Cora | food |
6,844 | 75,230 | In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts. | Peter McWilliams | work |
11,032 | 73,322 | Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth. | Keith Miller | wisdom |
1,976 | 63,006 | All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience. | Alice Walker | society |
4,601 | 46,358 | I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh. | Jenny McCarthy | mom |
504 | 70,633 | Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. | Albert Einstein | truth |
11,110 | 73,884 | Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money. | Satchel Paige | women |
3,251 | 58,329 | There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship. | Jeremy Sisto | relationship |
7,882 | 17,179 | Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all. | Jason Mraz | equality |
4,923 | 4,849 | I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously I find that a very tedious attitude. | Joan Collins | attitude |
1,227 | 61,938 | I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting. | Elizabeth Moon | science |
3,801 | 6,031 | Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen. | Brad Meltzer | beauty |
5,797 | 11,828 | Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. | Nicholas M. Butler | courage |
10,793 | 60,609 | I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic. | Brooke Burke | romantic |
7,790 | 26,940 | The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present. | Bill Watterson | future |
5,565 | 6,810 | The best place a person can die, is where they die for others. | James M. Barrie | best |
1,532 | 19,165 | Faith never makes a confession. | Henry David Thoreau | faith |
10,983 | 23,919 | I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy. | Valerie Bertinelli | food |
1,159 | 17,036 | If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim. | Robert Kennedy | equality |
163 | 70,932 | Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. | Virginia Woolf | truth |
6,221 | 64,240 | I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports. | Rachel Griffiths | sports |
1,609 | 41,702 | People spend so much time in their cars, and it's a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby. | Jordana Brewster | legal |
4,577 | 24,927 | As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out. | Allen West | freedom |
5,315 | 62,848 | I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes. | Erma Bombeck | society |
10,740 | 13,338 | I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. | Willa Cather | death |
8,790 | 16,461 | These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the Apology to the first Australians. As Prime Minister of the country I am proud of each and every one of these achievements. | Kevin Rudd | education |
11,651 | 35,495 | If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure. | Phil McGraw | home |
2,342 | 64,154 | I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about. | Sanford I. Weill | sports |
2,555 | 20,144 | In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. | Lao Tzu | family |
11,086 | 11,988 | The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair. | Mercy Otis Warren | courage |
7,953 | 42,708 | I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things. | Robert Plant | life |
11,103 | 53,863 | I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about. | Karl Pilkington | pet |
3,102 | 50,788 | People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask. | David Byrne | music |
7,275 | 57,120 | The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power. | Carol P. Christ | power |
9,341 | 54,912 | In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. | Charles de Gaulle | politics |
1,772 | 63,634 | What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos. | Herbert Read | society |
8,408 | 18,340 | Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. | Thomas A. Edison | failure |
5,720 | 11,029 | In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with, but which would just confuse everybody. So in 'Amped,' I focus on neural implants. | Daniel H. Wilson | cool |
3,247 | 16,031 | I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.' | Alice Walker | education |
6,658 | 61,870 | That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine. | Charles Babbage | science |
11,524 | 2,287 | I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here. | Andy Cohen | amazing |
4,404 | 62,862 | Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. | Ayn Rand | society |
3,854 | 45,431 | All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. | Red Skelton | men |
10,516 | 31,048 | All great truths begin as blasphemies. | George Bernard Shaw | great |
4,195 | 53,790 | If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. | Alfred North Whitehead | pet |
33 | 73,574 | The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it. | Marguerite Duras | women |
6,085 | 28,556 | I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody. | Mojo Nixon | god |
11,418 | 3,513 | The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. | Stephen Gardiner | architecture |
1,556 | 67,392 | A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level. | Ralph Merkle | technology |
3,738 | 41 | Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. | Dwight L. Moody | age |
10,599 | 7,915 | Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong. | Maurice Sendak | business |
6,532 | 35,034 | The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. | Edward Abbey | home |
3,233 | 72,118 | And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede. | Dick Gregory | war |
10,562 | 3,878 | If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. | John Lennon | art |
69 | 47,492 | It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber. | Robert Fulghum | money |
2,035 | 25,103 | You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican. | Carlos Fuentes | freedom |
10,296 | 57,777 | There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery. | Florence Welch | relationship |
1,136 | 47,766 | The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. | Erykah Badu | money |
3,638 | 15,334 | Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are. | Julio Cortazar | dreams |
9,279 | 55,572 | This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first. | Brad Henry | politics |
2,641 | 50,169 | What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up. | Alanis Morissette | movingon |
1,844 | 33,929 | I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally. | John Foster Dulles | history |
9,945 | 16,245 | Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones. | Charlotte Bronte | education |
3,373 | 14,376 | I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life. | Drew Barrymore | design |
8,269 | 40,558 | Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? | Walt Whitman | learning |
7,020 | 38,646 | We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence. | Bob Graham | intelligence |
5 | 55,096 | I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things. | Henry Rollins | politics |
3,300 | 58,464 | I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve. | George W. Bush | religion |
2,798 | 13,780 | That which is so universal as death must be a benefit. | Friedrich Schiller | death |
4,772 | 48,593 | Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies. | Andrew Bird | morning |
5,676 | 27,970 | God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars. | Elbert Hubbard | god |
4,600 | 34,875 | The home is the chief school of human virtues. | William Ellery Channing | home |
1,699 | 75,640 | I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing. | Muddy Waters | christmas |
7,149 | 45,495 | The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free. | Henry David Thoreau | men |
7,556 | 53,374 | If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. | Bernard Baruch | peace |
11,768 | 17,907 | Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. | William Styron | experience |
11,360 | 47,953 | I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime. | Glenn Beck | money |
3,867 | 10,800 | Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out. | Marc Newson | cool |
3,849 | 71,473 | Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. | Margaret Fuller | truth |
4,707 | 19,576 | I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now they think that's going to sort things out. | Jarvis Cocker | faith |
10,930 | 16,193 | If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it. | Samuel Richardson | education |
6,027 | 22,400 | I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true. | Arsenio Hall | fear |
2,586 | 251 | We are always the same age inside. | Gertrude Stein | age |
7,004 | 41,663 | Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed I wanted even better stability in my FX and that meant work on the aerodynamics. | Sebastian Vettel | legal |
2,012 | 36,521 | I hope I'm not a tourist attraction - I'm sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place. | Prince William | hope |
3,989 | 35,849 | Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. | Martin Luther | hope |
10,359 | 47,944 | The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it. | Yoko Ono | money |
1,979 | 35,473 | You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run. | Vin Diesel | home |
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