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5,783 | 12,963 | I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records. | Alvin Lee | dad |
5,952 | 30,692 | I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people. | Jesse Ventura | government |
4,630 | 8,672 | Come rain or shine I walk short distances rather than taking my car. | Sophie Ellis-Bextor | car |
6,053 | 43,241 | Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | love |
454 | 26,633 | When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group. | Shirin Ebadi | funny |
132 | 61,483 | Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. | Martin Henry Fischer | science |
10,117 | 38,587 | The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information. | Warren Christopher | intelligence |
2,895 | 37,786 | When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination. | Tim Berners Lee | imagination |
6,447 | 15,081 | Writers write. Dreamers talk about it. | Jerry B. Jenkins | dreams |
1,729 | 65,127 | Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often. | William Cavendish | strength |
6,566 | 50,081 | If you look at anybody who's had along career, if you look at the choices they've made - even if the movies haven't worked - they've always worked with great filmmakers. | Bradley Cooper | movies |
6,528 | 36,260 | Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we'd call the millennium. | Pat Robertson | hope |
10,407 | 41,506 | I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five. | Steven Wright | legal |
2,167 | 11,501 | The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. | George Bernard Shaw | courage |
10,139 | 45,747 | If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory. | Sun Tzu | men |
10,890 | 34,472 | Natural history is not about producing fables. | David Attenborough | history |
7,673 | 47,775 | And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product. | Freddie Mercury | money |
9,460 | 72,318 | In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. | Cyril Connolly | war |
10,558 | 47,752 | Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. | Ted Turner | money |
1,166 | 61,000 | It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect. | Aaliyah | sad |
8,253 | 64,916 | We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music. | Caroline Corr | strength |
3,625 | 17,320 | When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. | Albert Camus | experience |
11,475 | 61,418 | If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. | Francis Bacon | science |
2,881 | 17,930 | No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer. | Harlan Coben | experience |
8,298 | 2,166 | Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback. | Mindy Kaling | amazing |
6,222 | 30,412 | A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward. | Otto von Bismarck | government |
11,051 | 31,062 | Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. | Blaise Pascal | great |
11,552 | 57,053 | It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do. | Whoopi Goldberg | power |
5,917 | 48,396 | 'Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better. | George Edward Woodberry | morning |
9,383 | 53,583 | You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have. | Naomi Watts | peace |
8,221 | 67,240 | Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down. | Michael Crichton | technology |
8,390 | 17,599 | At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality. | Princess Masako | experience |
10,114 | 27,653 | Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. | Rudyard Kipling | gardening |
6,858 | 10,268 | It's communication - that's what theatre is all about. | Chita Rivera | communication |
5,014 | 37,100 | As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset. | David Alan Grier | humor |
10,406 | 38,762 | Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village. | John George Nicolay | intelligence |
5,815 | 58,229 | We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek. | Jones Very | relationship |
314 | 73,060 | To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. | Herman Melville | wisdom |
5,077 | 22,402 | The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps. | Julie Burchill | fear |
2,710 | 15,582 | My hero's, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can't take that from me. | Derek Jeter | dreams |
8,484 | 9,768 | I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change. | Danica McKellar | change |
6,884 | 28,012 | God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. | John Muir | god |
6,421 | 36,448 | The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. | Max Eastman | hope |
1,425 | 3,311 | That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry. | Brad Paisley | anniversary |
8,412 | 43,816 | The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one. | Honore de Balzac | love |
8,477 | 33,814 | The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected. | William Hall | health |
1,790 | 62,676 | I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories. | Connie Stevens | smile |
2,196 | 38,377 | There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | intelligence |
7,896 | 58,394 | I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes. | Whitney Cummings | relationship |
8,436 | 44,031 | Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day. | Mickey Rooney | marriage |
9,571 | 50,998 | Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year. | Bill Monroe | music |
1,063 | 15,638 | What are the Democrats, the party of Jim Matheson, telling them? The message of the Democrats is that the Amercian dream is over. 'The government is all you have. Give up your dreams, and the government will save you, the government will heal you, the government will be your hope and change.' We know here in Utah, none of that is true. | Mia Love | dreams |
4,941 | 11,312 | The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.' | Billy Gardell | cool |
60 | 12,792 | My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry. | Albert Finney | dad |
7,089 | 58,932 | Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it. | Natalie Portman | religion |
8,586 | 53,640 | A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies. | Richard Holbrooke | peace |
6,565 | 11,886 | War is fear cloaked in courage. | William Westmoreland | courage |
135 | 75,861 | Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. | James Joyce | saintpatricksday |
2,956 | 29,241 | Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs. | Saint Francis de Sales | good |
3,841 | 52,491 | Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution. | Tony Kushner | patience |
7,444 | 36,598 | House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust. | John Boehner | hope |
5,646 | 3,577 | You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best. | Ben Nicholson | architecture |
3,350 | 43,119 | Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. | Judith Viorst | love |
2,214 | 71,227 | One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | truth |
8,807 | 8,995 | Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead. | John Surtees | car |
5,025 | 63,436 | I want to initiate a change in society in the long term. | Francois Hollande | society |
4,110 | 31,245 | The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. | George Orwell | great |
8,837 | 60,644 | The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better. | Ewan McGregor | romantic |
5,759 | 29,430 | You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night. | Slash | good |
2,061 | 74,700 | We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. | Voltaire | work |
1,497 | 14,494 | If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny. | Steve Wozniak | design |
6,620 | 17,737 | Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience. | Susan Orlean | experience |
10,399 | 59,715 | Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them. | Abbie Hoffman | respect |
4,717 | 38,651 | Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world. | Chris Chocola | intelligence |
11,378 | 17,596 | It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is. | Christy Turlington | experience |
2,490 | 68,490 | Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show. | Mitch Hedberg | time |
10,971 | 38,018 | When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best! | Devon Werkheiser | imagination |
8,613 | 62,400 | A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. | Denis Waitley | smile |
8,748 | 50,471 | Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music. | Paul McCartney | music |
5,557 | 15,744 | Dreams grow holy put in action. | Adelaide Anne Procter | dreams |
3,176 | 68,049 | The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby. | Hilary Swank | thankful |
8,183 | 585 | I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else. | Rod Stewart | age |
6,504 | 9,961 | Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever. | Paul Auster | change |
10,551 | 23,888 | Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network. | Wolfgang Puck | food |
9,089 | 43,957 | The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. | Peter De Vries | marriage |
1,741 | 43,959 | My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. | Rita Rudner | marriage |
3,952 | 20,934 | Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them. | Jeffrey Kluger | family |
1,646 | 44,755 | In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy. | Michael Kinsley | marriage |
2,438 | 63,119 | America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society. | Marco Rubio | society |
9,548 | 62,724 | A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | society |
5,926 | 26,846 | Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. | Benjamin Disraeli | future |
1,565 | 45,947 | Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us? | Augustus Hare | men |
7,719 | 66,930 | What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions. | Arnold H. Glasow | technology |
10,787 | 5,205 | 'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business. | Richard Chamberlain | beauty |
10,286 | 63,565 | Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families. | Dirk Kempthorne | society |
8,073 | 5,643 | I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true. | Gwyneth Paltrow | beauty |
10,782 | 56,729 | Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. | Peter Drucker | power |
10,515 | 28,543 | Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls. | James Russell Lowell | god |
17 | 37,864 | There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. | Lionel Trilling | imagination |
7,685 | 36,423 | Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell. | Harlan Coben | hope |
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