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10,398	50,567	For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.	Taylor Swift	music
5,251	20,977	I think when someone is injured in your family, you want to speak to the individual and you want to hear their voice and you want to make sure they are OK.	Roger Goodell	family
9,686	49,161	I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.	Francis Ford Coppola	movies
3,666	72,493	All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war they make it tour the world.	Victor Cousin	war
7,233	41,060	You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.	Karlie Kloss	learning
949	48,136	Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most. That is what being in the United Kingdom is all about.	Iain Duncan Smith	money
4,090	44,115	Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.	Marcus Tullius Cicero	marriage
8,276	70,361	I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already.	Helen Fielding	trust
918	11,313	I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets.	Jolene Blalock	cool
3,634	63,048	There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.	George Byron	society
1,943	50,963	A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.	Robert Rodriguez	music
1,284	52,083	The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.	Muhammad Iqbal	nature
1,095	839	I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.	John Mellencamp	age
6,836	12,407	And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.	Mike Myers	dad
9,832	20,170	To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.	Pope John Paul II	family
8,848	70,886	Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.	Ambrose Bierce	truth
4,843	17,935	Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.	Kevin Smith	experience
7,429	56,096	The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.	Ho Chi Minh	positive
4,761	59,437	Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.	Abraham Joshua Heschel	respect
2,792	19,733	Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.	David Ben-Gurion	faith
5,244	64,513	My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.	Michael Jordan	strength
11,000	13,949	Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.	Heinrich Heine	death
7,793	6,627	Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.	John Ruskin	best
2,431	63,353	We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.	LL Cool J	society
9,308	20,206	The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.	Mitt Romney	family
11,202	34,039	History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.	B. C. Forbes	history
1,576	57,527	But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.	Bono	relationship
2,225	62,330	That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.	Charles E. Wilson	science
9,576	53,008	The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.	Matthew Henry	peace
1,721	68,174	We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.	T. S. Eliot	time
2,666	62,060	Politics is the science of urgencies.	Theodore Parker	science
2,622	64,253	Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.	Steven Van Zandt	sports
1,896	29,686	Any good music must be an innovation.	Les Baxter	good
7,083	9,232	Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.	Tony Robbins	change
9,874	73,227	Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'	Bill Bradley	wisdom
5,695	6,654	I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.	Richard M. Daley	best
3,628	26,872	People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.	Katy Perry	future
5,106	28,526	God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.	Desmond Tutu	god
10,267	74,141	The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.	Tyra Banks	women
846	27,245	Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.	Brett Favre	future
5,238	47,970	Things are done according to money these days.	Shirley MacLaine	money
1,271	36,476	I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.	Gustav Mahler	hope
2,433	951	We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.	Jeremy Rifkin	age
703	64,926	Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.	Esther Williams	strength
1,882	49,344	I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.	Danica McKellar	movies
8,523	23,695	Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.	Beth Anderson	food
10,213	49,930	It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.	Chris Evans	movies
4,074	12,591	I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.	Tom Hooper	dad
1,134	50,405	I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.	Bob Newhart	music
6,404	20,713	I do come from a strong family.	Arlen Specter	family
9,859	55,473	My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.	Jack Kemp	politics
7,399	67,970	Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.	Laurel Clark	thankful
9,877	58,673	The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.	Alexis de Tocqueville	religion
11,728	49,487	I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.	Philip Seymour Hoffman	movies
5,478	32,295	An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.	Maurice Maeterlinck	happiness
7,751	33,355	Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens.	Ari Fleischer	health
4,964	36,714	I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.	Mark Haddon	hope
8,723	57,828	You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.	Jane Campion	relationship
11,550	60,421	Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.	Julie Delpy	romantic
4,319	39,794	They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.	Miroslav Vitous	knowledge
7,958	55,944	Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.	Sienna Miller	positive
6,876	47,040	I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.	Greta Gerwig	mom
4,338	39,281	Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.	David Herbert Lawrence	knowledge
5,445	23,964	It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.	Ivan Pavlov	food
10,484	32,378	I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.	David Duchovny	happiness
8,147	6,926	It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.	R. Lee Ermey	best
5,981	33,555	I remember the first pangs of stress arriving at the end of school. Once I graduated I had to get a full-time job, worry about health insurance, saving money, paying rent - things I'd never thought about before.	Ezra Koenig	health
1,263	58,948	I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.	Eddie Izzard	religion
2,848	47,910	A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.	Jack Kevorkian	money
2,607	44,941	My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that it's the way one is raised.	Colin Firth	medical
6,384	6,240	My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.	Eleanor Roosevelt	best
7,900	2,079	Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.	John Cusack	amazing
3,150	75,223	Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!	Susan Powter	work
7,743	42,254	People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.	Eleanor Roosevelt	life
6,118	59,930	People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes.	Terry Bradshaw	respect
11,721	73,974	Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.	Elie Wiesel	women
5,316	42,524	Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?	T. S. Eliot	life
4,069	69,079	No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.	Henry A. Kissinger	time
2,613	12,722	People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.	Jennifer Weiner	dad
10,556	30,344	I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.	Herman Cain	government
9,625	11,260	The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being censored and I got to do my own thing, and it was really cool.	Donald Glover	cool
8,205	40,075	No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.	Peter Drucker	leadership
10,528	55,073	War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.	Colin Powell	politics
7,416	14,996	There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?	Robert Kennedy	dreams
7,347	74,213	Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.	Taslima Nasrin	women
2,986	8,111	I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.	Giada De Laurentiis	business
3,675	37,806	I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.	Teena Marie	imagination
6,346	12,231	I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.	John Boehner	dad
4,712	28,978	A good indignation brings out all one's powers.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	good
1,103	64,833	My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.	Bear Grylls	strength
4,754	41,455	Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.	Hal David	learning
3,975	45,661	To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	men
8,486	63,387	The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.	Theresa May	society
7,771	22,288	I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.	Anne Lamott	fear
5,434	73,423	I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.	Nina Totenberg	wisdom
6,847	26,131	I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.	Jo Brand	funny
1,911	10,473	I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.	Garrett Hedlund	computers
8,527	19,296	Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.	Sophia Loren	faith
5,418	75,813	I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.	Martina Hingis	mothersday
3,885	49,776	Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.	Rob Sheffield	movies

10,398

50,567

For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

Taylor Swift

music

5,251

20,977

I think when someone is injured in your family, you want to speak to the individual and you want to hear their voice and you want to make sure they are OK.

Roger Goodell

family

9,686

49,161

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

Francis Ford Coppola

movies

3,666

72,493

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war they make it tour the world.

Victor Cousin

war

7,233

41,060

You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

Karlie Kloss

learning

949

48,136

Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most. That is what being in the United Kingdom is all about.

Iain Duncan Smith

money

4,090

44,115

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

marriage

8,276

70,361

I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already.

Helen Fielding

trust

918

11,313

I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets.

Jolene Blalock

cool

3,634

63,048

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

George Byron

society

1,943

50,963

A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.

Robert Rodriguez

music

1,284

52,083

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

Muhammad Iqbal

nature

1,095

839

I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.

John Mellencamp

age

6,836

12,407

And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.

Mike Myers

dad

9,832

20,170

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

Pope John Paul II

family

8,848

70,886

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Ambrose Bierce

truth

4,843

17,935

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

Kevin Smith

experience

7,429

56,096

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.

Ho Chi Minh

positive

4,761

59,437

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

respect

2,792

19,733

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

David Ben-Gurion

faith

5,244

64,513

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

Michael Jordan

strength

11,000

13,949

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Heinrich Heine

death

7,793

6,627

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

John Ruskin

best

2,431

63,353

We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.

LL Cool J

society

9,308

20,206

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

Mitt Romney

family

11,202

34,039

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

B. C. Forbes

history

1,576

57,527

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

Bono

relationship

2,225

62,330

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.

Charles E. Wilson

science

9,576

53,008

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

Matthew Henry

peace

1,721

68,174

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

time

2,666

62,060

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Theodore Parker

science

2,622

64,253

Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.

Steven Van Zandt

sports

1,896

29,686

Any good music must be an innovation.

Les Baxter

good

7,083

9,232

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

Tony Robbins

change

9,874

73,227

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

Bill Bradley

wisdom

5,695

6,654

I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

Richard M. Daley

best

3,628

26,872

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

Katy Perry

future

5,106

28,526

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

Desmond Tutu

god

10,267

74,141

The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.

Tyra Banks

women

846

27,245

Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.

Brett Favre

future

5,238

47,970

Things are done according to money these days.

Shirley MacLaine

money

1,271

36,476

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

Gustav Mahler

hope

2,433

951

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

Jeremy Rifkin

age

703

64,926

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

Esther Williams

strength

1,882

49,344

I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.

Danica McKellar

movies

8,523

23,695

Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.

Beth Anderson

food

10,213

49,930

It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.

Chris Evans

movies

4,074

12,591

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

Tom Hooper

dad

1,134

50,405

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

Bob Newhart

music

6,404

20,713

I do come from a strong family.

Arlen Specter

family

9,859

55,473

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

Jack Kemp

politics

7,399

67,970

Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.

Laurel Clark

thankful

9,877

58,673

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

Alexis de Tocqueville

religion

11,728

49,487

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

movies

5,478

32,295

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Maurice Maeterlinck

happiness

7,751

33,355

Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens.

Ari Fleischer

health

4,964

36,714

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

Mark Haddon

hope

8,723

57,828

You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.

Jane Campion

relationship

11,550

60,421

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

Julie Delpy

romantic

4,319

39,794

They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.

Miroslav Vitous

knowledge

7,958

55,944

Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.

Sienna Miller

positive

6,876

47,040

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.

Greta Gerwig

mom

4,338

39,281

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

David Herbert Lawrence

knowledge

5,445

23,964

It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.

Ivan Pavlov

food

10,484

32,378

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

David Duchovny

happiness

8,147

6,926

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

R. Lee Ermey

best

5,981

33,555

I remember the first pangs of stress arriving at the end of school. Once I graduated I had to get a full-time job, worry about health insurance, saving money, paying rent - things I'd never thought about before.

Ezra Koenig

health

1,263

58,948

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

Eddie Izzard

religion

2,848

47,910

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

Jack Kevorkian

money

2,607

44,941

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that it's the way one is raised.

Colin Firth

medical

6,384

6,240

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Eleanor Roosevelt

best

7,900

2,079

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

John Cusack

amazing

3,150

75,223

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

Susan Powter

work

7,743

42,254

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt

life

6,118

59,930

People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes.

Terry Bradshaw

respect

11,721

73,974

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

Elie Wiesel

women

5,316

42,524

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T. S. Eliot

life

4,069

69,079

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Henry A. Kissinger

time

2,613

12,722

People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

Jennifer Weiner

dad

10,556

30,344

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

Herman Cain

government

9,625

11,260

The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being censored and I got to do my own thing, and it was really cool.

Donald Glover

cool

8,205

40,075

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Peter Drucker

leadership

10,528

55,073

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Colin Powell

politics

7,416

14,996

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Robert Kennedy

dreams

7,347

74,213

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

Taslima Nasrin

women

2,986

8,111

I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.

Giada De Laurentiis

business

3,675

37,806

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.

Teena Marie

imagination

6,346

12,231

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

John Boehner

dad

4,712

28,978

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

good

1,103

64,833

My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.

Bear Grylls

strength

4,754

41,455

Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.

Hal David

learning

3,975

45,661

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

men

8,486

63,387

The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.

Theresa May

society

7,771

22,288

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

Anne Lamott

fear

5,434

73,423

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

Nina Totenberg

wisdom

6,847

26,131

I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.

Jo Brand

funny

1,911

10,473

I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.

Garrett Hedlund

computers

8,527

19,296

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Sophia Loren

faith

5,418

75,813

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

Martina Hingis

mothersday

3,885

49,776

Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.

Rob Sheffield

movies