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11,439	67,167	For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.	Christopher Nolan	technology
10,527	72,889	I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.	Thomas Jefferson	wisdom
11,772	49,847	I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.	Kevin Bacon	movies
351	72,754	The doors of wisdom are never shut.	Benjamin Franklin	wisdom
4,917	27,254	The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day a movement is only people moving.	Gloria Steinem	future
6,300	71,984	War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	war
8,566	60,919	It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.	Ernie Harwell	sad
3,013	73,314	There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.	Chris Robinson	wisdom
5,766	30,377	Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.	Elizabeth I	government
7,157	52,666	I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.	Jesse Ventura	patriotism
299	73,733	There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.	P. J. O'Rourke	women
11,622	52,705	The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.	Herbert Croly	patriotism
5,789	29,243	My message is that God is a good God.	Joel Osteen	good
11,812	33,601	I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.	Tipper Gore	health
255	32,423	The gratification of desire is not happiness.	Daisaku Ikeda	happiness
8,935	61,595	The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.	Samuel Butler	science
7,165	60,811	A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.	Arthur Symons	romantic
9,814	43,195	I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.	Claude Chabrol	love
9,749	70,115	God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.	Raymond Holliwell	trust
6,263	3,695	In art the best is good enough.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	art
8,668	37,481	Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.	Vincent Van Gogh	imagination
3,941	25,821	I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.	Steve Martin	funny
722	26,470	Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.	Candace Bushnell	funny
2,135	46,392	Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like 'What did you do to yourself?' I was so embarrassed.	Ashley Tisdale	mom
8,861	41,636	The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.	Warren Farrell	legal
1,871	68,404	My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.	Michael Symon	time
10,237	10,626	Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.	Patricia Heaton	cool
3,078	56,309	From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.	Barbara Olson	positive
10,821	35,752	I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.	Anna Deavere Smith	home
3,337	2,313	Linda Georgian is a wonderful psychic. She can do amazing things.	Dionne Warwick	amazing
10,871	7,756	A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.	Michael LeBoeuf	business
6,498	59,955	I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.	Blanche Lincoln	respect
3,768	10,576	Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.	Richard Dooling	computers
7,565	46,415	Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.	Sophia Bush	mom
3,671	27,844	Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.	Thomas Jefferson	god
11,476	18	You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.	George Burns	age
4,282	27,736	God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.	Mahatma Gandhi	god
4,555	50,922	My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.	Neil Young	music
5,300	42,711	One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.	Simone de Beauvoir	life
9,429	14,905	At one point, I even thought, 'Oh, I'll take diet pills.' I tried it for one day, and I thought my heart was going to explode. It's awful, and I would never, ever recommend it.	Jenna Ushkowitz	diet
3,308	15,260	Learn from your dreams what you lack.	W. H. Auden	dreams
2,384	45,463	Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.	Plato	men
9,292	36,737	But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.	Wallace Shawn	hope
824	37,080	Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.	Paul Feig	humor
9,085	53,521	Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.	Cecilia Bartoli	peace
11,118	56,670	When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.	Norman Vincent Peale	power
2,252	30,334	My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.	John Bolton	government
11,244	52,928	The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.	Norman Schwarzkopf	peace
1,490	8,743	I think I'm pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don't have a new car, I drive my old car that I've had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago.	Chris O'Donnell	car
1,880	23,338	If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.	Kanye West	food
4,331	23,163	Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.	Neal Barnard	food
5,591	31,980	It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.	Dalai Lama	happiness
6,497	47,112	I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.	Florence Henderson	mom
999	67,725	Technology has changed the fan/actor interaction quite a bit.	Misha Collins	technology
10,431	66,674	I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.	Cory Monteith	teacher
1,973	57,299	The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.	John Maynard Keynes	power
107	34,935	On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.	Dan Lipinski	home
3,210	46,628	My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control.	Paul Walker	mom
3,840	24,545	Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.	Quentin Tarantino	freedom
2,495	1,304	A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.	Leonard Peltier	alone
6,747	17,512	I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.	Louis C. K.	experience
6,228	61,217	It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.	Meg White	sad
6,293	34,226	Human history in essence is the history of ideas.	H. G. Wells	history
3,946	57,722	Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.	Harold S. Geneen	relationship
4,458	11,466	When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that I'm artistic and cool and I'm doing the exact same thing I did in high school.	Freddie Prinze, Jr.	cool
796	39,643	That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.	Maria Mitchell	knowledge
11,080	73,521	America is a land where men govern, but women rule.	John Mason Brown	women
10,737	21,174	A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.	Shirley Manson	famous
2,690	63,320	American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.	Henry Adams	society
4,477	43,368	A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.	Lao Tzu	love
6,605	31,385	The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.	Blaise Pascal	great
6,178	1,131	God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.	Martin Luther	alone
9,756	75,778	There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.	Michael Ignatieff	memorialday
6,249	36,805	I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.	Alicia Silverstone	hope
865	50,486	Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.	Ronnie James Dio	music
5,920	48,268	It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.	Abu Bakr	morning
11,414	44,237	There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.	Phil McGraw	marriage
6,940	1,994	I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.	Michael Chertoff	alone
11,385	69,307	Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.	Paul Robeson	travel
7,961	14,405	No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.	Arthur Erickson	design
7,695	44,915	Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.	Anita Baker	medical
8,448	11,935	I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.	Susana Martinez	courage
880	3,685	Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.	Ambrose Bierce	art
5,035	2,998	Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.	James Thurber	anger
3,687	58,621	It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.	Gilbert K. Chesterton	religion
5,197	59,187	I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.	Imelda Staunton	religion
11,465	4,963	Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say, 'hi'. You say hi and people whisper' man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude.	Juliette Lewis	attitude
7,494	7,123	The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.	Paris Hilton	birthday
11,304	49,177	Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.	Pauline Kael	movies
8,077	19,623	My faith means everything to me. God and I talk constantly.	Sherri Shepherd	faith
1,623	12,852	I grew up loving Walter Payton. My dad used to always show us film of him.	Shaun Alexander	dad
6,186	60,795	After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.	Nicholas Mosley	romantic
418	43,174	Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.	Mother Teresa	love
743	71,447	Language is the house of the truth of Being.	Martin Heidegger	truth
10,317	3,527	Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.	Jo Nesbo	architecture
4,987	52,214	A mother who is really a mother is never free.	Honore de Balzac	parenting
6,436	7,369	Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.	Scott Adams	business
4,405	69,516	Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.	Ben E. King	travel
6,538	28,411	We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.	Robert E. Lee	god
11,149	9,076	Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there.	Will Smith	change

11,439

67,167

For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.

Christopher Nolan

technology

10,527

72,889

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Thomas Jefferson

wisdom

11,772

49,847

I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.

Kevin Bacon

movies

351

72,754

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Benjamin Franklin

wisdom

4,917

27,254

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day a movement is only people moving.

Gloria Steinem

future

6,300

71,984

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

war

8,566

60,919

It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.

Ernie Harwell

sad

3,013

73,314

There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.

Chris Robinson

wisdom

5,766

30,377

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

Elizabeth I

government

7,157

52,666

I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.

Jesse Ventura

patriotism

299

73,733

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

P. J. O'Rourke

women

11,622

52,705

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

Herbert Croly

patriotism

5,789

29,243

My message is that God is a good God.

Joel Osteen

good

11,812

33,601

I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.

Tipper Gore

health

255

32,423

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Daisaku Ikeda

happiness

8,935

61,595

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

Samuel Butler

science

7,165

60,811

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

Arthur Symons

romantic

9,814

43,195

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

Claude Chabrol

love

9,749

70,115

God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

Raymond Holliwell

trust

6,263

3,695

In art the best is good enough.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

art

8,668

37,481

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.

Vincent Van Gogh

imagination

3,941

25,821

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

Steve Martin

funny

722

26,470

Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.

Candace Bushnell

funny

2,135

46,392

Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like 'What did you do to yourself?' I was so embarrassed.

Ashley Tisdale

mom

8,861

41,636

The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.

Warren Farrell

legal

1,871

68,404

My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.

Michael Symon

time

10,237

10,626

Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.

Patricia Heaton

cool

3,078

56,309

From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.

Barbara Olson

positive

10,821

35,752

I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

Anna Deavere Smith

home

3,337

2,313

Linda Georgian is a wonderful psychic. She can do amazing things.

Dionne Warwick

amazing

10,871

7,756

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

Michael LeBoeuf

business

6,498

59,955

I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.

Blanche Lincoln

respect

3,768

10,576

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.

Richard Dooling

computers

7,565

46,415

Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.

Sophia Bush

mom

3,671

27,844

Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

god

11,476

18

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

George Burns

age

4,282

27,736

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Mahatma Gandhi

god

4,555

50,922

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

Neil Young

music

5,300

42,711

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Simone de Beauvoir

life

9,429

14,905

At one point, I even thought, 'Oh, I'll take diet pills.' I tried it for one day, and I thought my heart was going to explode. It's awful, and I would never, ever recommend it.

Jenna Ushkowitz

diet

3,308

15,260

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

W. H. Auden

dreams

2,384

45,463

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

Plato

men

9,292

36,737

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.

Wallace Shawn

hope

824

37,080

Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.

Paul Feig

humor

9,085

53,521

Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.

Cecilia Bartoli

peace

11,118

56,670

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Norman Vincent Peale

power

2,252

30,334

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

John Bolton

government

11,244

52,928

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Norman Schwarzkopf

peace

1,490

8,743

I think I'm pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don't have a new car, I drive my old car that I've had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago.

Chris O'Donnell

car

1,880

23,338

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

Kanye West

food

4,331

23,163

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

Neal Barnard

food

5,591

31,980

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Dalai Lama

happiness

6,497

47,112

I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.

Florence Henderson

mom

999

67,725

Technology has changed the fan/actor interaction quite a bit.

Misha Collins

technology

10,431

66,674

I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

Cory Monteith

teacher

1,973

57,299

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

John Maynard Keynes

power

107

34,935

On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.

Dan Lipinski

home

3,210

46,628

My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control.

Paul Walker

mom

3,840

24,545

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

Quentin Tarantino

freedom

2,495

1,304

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

Leonard Peltier

alone

6,747

17,512

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

Louis C. K.

experience

6,228

61,217

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

Meg White

sad

6,293

34,226

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

H. G. Wells

history

3,946

57,722

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

Harold S. Geneen

relationship

4,458

11,466

When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that I'm artistic and cool and I'm doing the exact same thing I did in high school.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

cool

796

39,643

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Maria Mitchell

knowledge

11,080

73,521

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

John Mason Brown

women

10,737

21,174

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

Shirley Manson

famous

2,690

63,320

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Henry Adams

society

4,477

43,368

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Lao Tzu

love

6,605

31,385

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Blaise Pascal

great

6,178

1,131

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Martin Luther

alone

9,756

75,778

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

Michael Ignatieff

memorialday

6,249

36,805

I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.

Alicia Silverstone

hope

865

50,486

Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.

Ronnie James Dio

music

5,920

48,268

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

Abu Bakr

morning

11,414

44,237

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.

Phil McGraw

marriage

6,940

1,994

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

Michael Chertoff

alone

11,385

69,307

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.

Paul Robeson

travel

7,961

14,405

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

Arthur Erickson

design

7,695

44,915

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

Anita Baker

medical

8,448

11,935

I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.

Susana Martinez

courage

880

3,685

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

art

5,035

2,998

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurber

anger

3,687

58,621

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

religion

5,197

59,187

I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

Imelda Staunton

religion

11,465

4,963

Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say, 'hi'. You say hi and people whisper' man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude.

Juliette Lewis

attitude

7,494

7,123

The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.

Paris Hilton

birthday

11,304

49,177

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

Pauline Kael

movies

8,077

19,623

My faith means everything to me. God and I talk constantly.

Sherri Shepherd

faith

1,623

12,852

I grew up loving Walter Payton. My dad used to always show us film of him.

Shaun Alexander

dad

6,186

60,795

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

Nicholas Mosley

romantic

418

43,174

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Mother Teresa

love

743

71,447

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Martin Heidegger

truth

10,317

3,527

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.

Jo Nesbo

architecture

4,987

52,214

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Honore de Balzac

parenting

6,436

7,369

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

Scott Adams

business

4,405

69,516

Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.

Ben E. King

travel

6,538

28,411

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

Robert E. Lee

god

11,149

9,076

Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there.

Will Smith

change