c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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2,844	67,186	I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way that's very cold and has such an opposite effect.	Jaron Lanier	technology
350	256	Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.	W. Somerset Maugham	age
9,950	30,271	The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.	William Jennings Bryan	government
8,656	58,234	Favored Nations is a long-term commitment. Our hope is that those who are passionate about real musicianship will want to hear and own most of our albums. We will set out to attain the same direct relationship with our customers that we have with our artists.	Steve Vai	relationship
10,702	3,512	Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.	Stephen Gardiner	architecture
1,665	8,415	I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.	Tori Amos	car
11,332	72,870	Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.	Walter Benjamin	wisdom
4,006	48,366	If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.	Marc Andreessen	morning
3,473	75,090	I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.	Stephen Dorff	work
4,905	74,180	I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.	Sean Connery	women
11,718	50,127	I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.	Zoe Kazan	movies
5,020	15,089	Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.	Ashley Smith	dreams
8,374	31,244	Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.	Niccolo Machiavelli	great
6,220	14,623	The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.	Robert Moog	design
7,776	3,553	We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.	Tony Scott	architecture
9,426	22,777	In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.	Hillary Clinton	finance
549	48,164	This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.	Rodney Dangerfield	morning
11,241	57,204	There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.	J. William Fulbright	power
8,821	41,344	I don't think any other city in the world... the sun doesn't shine the same way anywhere as it does in New York. And then I guess everyone's very good at hanging out. Not in a crazy way, but you're just constantly interacting and learning.	Ben Lovett	learning
2,578	3,506	The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.	Helmut Jahn	architecture
4,800	44,708	I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do.	Jennifer Jason Leigh	marriage
2,560	75,310	I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.	Lady Gaga	work
7,657	6,039	The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty.	David Gower	beauty
10,188	42,695	So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.	Will Smith	life
8,706	57,007	Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.	Margaret J. Wheatley	power
3,047	23,605	We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.	Jeremy Rifkin	food
5,567	55,591	Newt Gingrich is one of the brightest people in the Republican Party and he's always been a little unorthodox in his approach to politics, but that's what makes him Newt Gingrich.	Gary Bauer	politics
5,694	44,781	Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.	Denise Richards	marriage
1,877	22,849	My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.	Merton Miller	finance
752	26,259	Funny is funny.	Don Rickles	funny
7,451	4,121	Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.	Mason Cooley	art
11,254	50,005	It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.	Selma Blair	movies
10,907	60,343	It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.	Chris Messina	respect
10,858	25,299	It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.	Epicurus	friendship
5,128	42,000	Life well spent is long.	Leonardo da Vinci	life
1,115	6,661	I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.	Selena Gomez	best
10,215	23,984	In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.	Bob Ney	food
10,814	67,133	People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?	Tom Clancy	technology
242	41,386	The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.	Dusty Baker	learning
6,331	114	The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	age
2,886	74,542	The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.	Mother Teresa	work
9,422	33,628	Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.	John Bruton	health
5,538	46,604	My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person.	Brandon Boyd	mom
9,314	2,916	I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them.	Peta Wilson	amazing
5,186	11,534	Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.	William Tecumseh Sherman	courage
7,370	52,263	The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.	Benjamin Spock	parenting
7,665	58,345	In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.	Eddie Murphy	relationship
2,434	43,102	It is very easy to love alone.	Gertrude Stein	love
2,744	69,375	I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.	Levon Helm	travel
3,973	30,340	We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?	Thomas Frank	government
5,986	3,737	The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.	David Herbert Lawrence	art
3,230	69,995	Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.	Jackie Chan	trust
9,998	10,929	I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.	Emily Mortimer	cool
5,715	23,305	I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.	Julia Child	food
8,254	13,038	I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.	Ian Hislop	dad
5,733	20,128	Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.	Chevy Chase	family
1,034	59,808	I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut it.' You know, you've got to respect the filmmaker, and it's a really tough issue.	Harvey Weinstein	respect
2,183	3,486	The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.	Maya Lin	architecture
782	71,498	The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.	Dylan Moran	truth
5,837	43,407	Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent.	Henry David Thoreau	love
4,788	40,815	There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.	Doris Lessing	learning
4,797	2,495	I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.	Dawn French	amazing
6,623	16,808	When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.	Joseph Wood Krutch	environmental
610	44,839	Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should ever have to conduct a marriage that is inconsistent with their religious beliefs. But I think as a civil institution, this issue's time has come and we need to move forward.	Kay Hagan	marriage
6,278	59,541	I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.	Malcolm X	respect
47	47,718	Much good art got made while money ruled I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.	Jerry Saltz	money
5,794	48,298	Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.	Hugh Laurie	morning
2,131	51,495	But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.	Jose Marti	nature
10,655	38,487	Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.	Grover Cleveland	intelligence
8,545	41,191	I've never stopped learning.	Mick Taylor	learning
9,184	25,109	Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios.	Vincent Cassel	freedom
7,897	52,090	A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.	Thor Heyerdahl	nature
3,075	62,031	Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.	John Charles Polanyi	science
897	55,917	I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.	Tyra Banks	positive
5,374	24,465	Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.	William Hague	freedom
404	46,318	My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.	Leonardo DiCaprio	mom
3,185	29,624	Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.	Charles Stanley	good
5,413	49,305	I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.	Catherine Deneuve	movies
6,868	10,551	So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.	Thomas Dolby	computers
9,813	67,132	In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.	Shimon Peres	technology
1,085	51,153	Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great.	Katherine Jenkins	music
1,622	7,617	Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.	Fran Lebowitz	business
2,407	15,450	When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.	Chris O'Dowd	dreams
9,895	18,818	Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.	David Limbaugh	failure
1,524	51,177	I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.	Norah Jones	music
5,743	75,803	Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.	George Eliot	mothersday
5,349	24,613	I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.	Boyd Rice	freedom
3,288	74,355	Equal pay isn't just a women's issue when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.	Mike Honda	women
5,343	2,555	Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.	Natalie Gulbis	amazing
3,409	68,520	I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.	Rodney Dangerfield	time
303	32,379	As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.	Anthony Trollope	happiness
4,549	35,955	Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.	Bill Cosby	hope
7,374	37,371	If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.	George S. Patton	imagination
11,582	53,120	In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.	Sun Myung Moon	peace
3,006	59,111	Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.	Sri Chinmoy	religion
1,727	65,607	That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.	Rush Limbaugh	success
3,353	71,263	The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.	Jeremy Bentham	truth
7,610	22,682	Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.	Ryszard Kapuscinski	fear
3,563	60,392	You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.	Olympia Dukakis	respect
6,913	72,659	I went looking for dresses and realized there was a niche I could fill in the wedding dress market.	Monique Lhuillier	wedding

2,844

67,186

I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way that's very cold and has such an opposite effect.

Jaron Lanier

technology

350

256

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

W. Somerset Maugham

age

9,950

30,271

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

William Jennings Bryan

government

8,656

58,234

Favored Nations is a long-term commitment. Our hope is that those who are passionate about real musicianship will want to hear and own most of our albums. We will set out to attain the same direct relationship with our customers that we have with our artists.

Steve Vai

relationship

10,702

3,512

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

Stephen Gardiner

architecture

1,665

8,415

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

Tori Amos

car

11,332

72,870

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Walter Benjamin

wisdom

4,006

48,366

If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

Marc Andreessen

morning

3,473

75,090

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

Stephen Dorff

work

4,905

74,180

I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.

Sean Connery

women

11,718

50,127

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

Zoe Kazan

movies

5,020

15,089

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

Ashley Smith

dreams

8,374

31,244

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

Niccolo Machiavelli

great

6,220

14,623

The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.

Robert Moog

design

7,776

3,553

We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.

Tony Scott

architecture

9,426

22,777

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

Hillary Clinton

finance

549

48,164

This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.

Rodney Dangerfield

morning

11,241

57,204

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

J. William Fulbright

power

8,821

41,344

I don't think any other city in the world... the sun doesn't shine the same way anywhere as it does in New York. And then I guess everyone's very good at hanging out. Not in a crazy way, but you're just constantly interacting and learning.

Ben Lovett

learning

2,578

3,506

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

Helmut Jahn

architecture

4,800

44,708

I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

marriage

2,560

75,310

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

Lady Gaga

work

7,657

6,039

The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty.

David Gower

beauty

10,188

42,695

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.

Will Smith

life

8,706

57,007

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

Margaret J. Wheatley

power

3,047

23,605

We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.

Jeremy Rifkin

food

5,567

55,591

Newt Gingrich is one of the brightest people in the Republican Party and he's always been a little unorthodox in his approach to politics, but that's what makes him Newt Gingrich.

Gary Bauer

politics

5,694

44,781

Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.

Denise Richards

marriage

1,877

22,849

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

Merton Miller

finance

752

26,259

Funny is funny.

Don Rickles

funny

7,451

4,121

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

Mason Cooley

art

11,254

50,005

It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.

Selma Blair

movies

10,907

60,343

It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.

Chris Messina

respect

10,858

25,299

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Epicurus

friendship

5,128

42,000

Life well spent is long.

Leonardo da Vinci

life

1,115

6,661

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

Selena Gomez

best

10,215

23,984

In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.

Bob Ney

food

10,814

67,133

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

Tom Clancy

technology

242

41,386

The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.

Dusty Baker

learning

6,331

114

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

age

2,886

74,542

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Mother Teresa

work

9,422

33,628

Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.

John Bruton

health

5,538

46,604

My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person.

Brandon Boyd

mom

9,314

2,916

I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them.

Peta Wilson

amazing

5,186

11,534

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

William Tecumseh Sherman

courage

7,370

52,263

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

Benjamin Spock

parenting

7,665

58,345

In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.

Eddie Murphy

relationship

2,434

43,102

It is very easy to love alone.

Gertrude Stein

love

2,744

69,375

I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.

Levon Helm

travel

3,973

30,340

We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?

Thomas Frank

government

5,986

3,737

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

David Herbert Lawrence

art

3,230

69,995

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

Jackie Chan

trust

9,998

10,929

I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.

Emily Mortimer

cool

5,715

23,305

I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.

Julia Child

food

8,254

13,038

I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.

Ian Hislop

dad

5,733

20,128

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

Chevy Chase

family

1,034

59,808

I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut it.' You know, you've got to respect the filmmaker, and it's a really tough issue.

Harvey Weinstein

respect

2,183

3,486

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

Maya Lin

architecture

782

71,498

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

Dylan Moran

truth

5,837

43,407

Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent.

Henry David Thoreau

love

4,788

40,815

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

Doris Lessing

learning

4,797

2,495

I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.

Dawn French

amazing

6,623

16,808

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

Joseph Wood Krutch

environmental

610

44,839

Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should ever have to conduct a marriage that is inconsistent with their religious beliefs. But I think as a civil institution, this issue's time has come and we need to move forward.

Kay Hagan

marriage

6,278

59,541

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Malcolm X

respect

47

47,718

Much good art got made while money ruled I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.

Jerry Saltz

money

5,794

48,298

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.

Hugh Laurie

morning

2,131

51,495

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

Jose Marti

nature

10,655

38,487

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

Grover Cleveland

intelligence

8,545

41,191

I've never stopped learning.

Mick Taylor

learning

9,184

25,109

Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios.

Vincent Cassel

freedom

7,897

52,090

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

Thor Heyerdahl

nature

3,075

62,031

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

John Charles Polanyi

science

897

55,917

I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.

Tyra Banks

positive

5,374

24,465

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

William Hague

freedom

404

46,318

My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.

Leonardo DiCaprio

mom

3,185

29,624

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

Charles Stanley

good

5,413

49,305

I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.

Catherine Deneuve

movies

6,868

10,551

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.

Thomas Dolby

computers

9,813

67,132

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.

Shimon Peres

technology

1,085

51,153

Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great.

Katherine Jenkins

music

1,622

7,617

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

Fran Lebowitz

business

2,407

15,450

When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.

Chris O'Dowd

dreams

9,895

18,818

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

David Limbaugh

failure

1,524

51,177

I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.

Norah Jones

music

5,743

75,803

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

George Eliot

mothersday

5,349

24,613

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

Boyd Rice

freedom

3,288

74,355

Equal pay isn't just a women's issue when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

Mike Honda

women

5,343

2,555

Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.

Natalie Gulbis

amazing

3,409

68,520

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

Rodney Dangerfield

time

303

32,379

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

Anthony Trollope

happiness

4,549

35,955

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

Bill Cosby

hope

7,374

37,371

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

George S. Patton

imagination

11,582

53,120

In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.

Sun Myung Moon

peace

3,006

59,111

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

Sri Chinmoy

religion

1,727

65,607

That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

Rush Limbaugh

success

3,353

71,263

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Jeremy Bentham

truth

7,610

22,682

Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

fear

3,563

60,392

You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.

Olympia Dukakis

respect

6,913

72,659

I went looking for dresses and realized there was a niche I could fill in the wedding dress market.

Monique Lhuillier

wedding