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9,512 | 15,627 | Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.' | Barbara Billingsley | dreams |
2,610 | 10,073 | But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers. | Armistead Maupin | communication |
9,764 | 70,164 | The way I look at it, everything is a trade. You acquire some money, so then you've got no financial burdens, but everyone wants your money and so who can you trust? Or you've got no money and you can trust anyone, but then you've got the worry to pay bills. Which is worse? | Matt LeBlanc | trust |
10,798 | 34,337 | You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. | Jawaharlal Nehru | history |
11,123 | 47,644 | Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty. | Sallust | money |
6,203 | 68,693 | There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now. | James A. Baldwin | time |
3,927 | 7,191 | I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care. | Mikhail Baryshnikov | birthday |
5,597 | 45,781 | Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead. | Augustus Y. Napier | men |
10,448 | 50,631 | Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs. | Jeff Bridges | music |
11,617 | 70,494 | People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul. | Phil Spector | trust |
1,251 | 9,320 | I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live. | Godfrey Reggio | change |
7,585 | 24,756 | There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed. | James Larkin | freedom |
4,420 | 45,464 | Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. | Henry David Thoreau | men |
3,629 | 16,807 | I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy. | Al Gore | environmental |
10,862 | 23,887 | I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe. | Wolfgang Puck | food |
1,611 | 50,375 | The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. | H. L. Mencken | music |
7,830 | 38,837 | God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible. | James Clavell | intelligence |
3,710 | 65,436 | That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. | Mitt Romney | success |
2,032 | 15,246 | Whatever dreams I have wished have come true. | Annette Funicello | dreams |
6,349 | 75,852 | I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know? | Mary-Kate Olsen | newyears |
1,312 | 30,518 | A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government. | Bob Woodward | government |
3,343 | 47,329 | I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. | Warren Buffett | money |
4,922 | 10,920 | I think it's really cool how J. Lo's been able to balance an acting career and a music career. That's something I strive for. | Victoria Justice | cool |
10,421 | 7,185 | My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar. | Susan Orlean | birthday |
5,922 | 45,490 | Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. | George Bernard Shaw | men |
4,664 | 5,846 | I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty. | Susan Estrich | beauty |
7,034 | 60,415 | Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. | Charles Kingsley | romantic |
3,836 | 9,847 | This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world. | Arthur Erickson | change |
5,792 | 13,750 | And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned. | Lynn Redgrave | death |
1,317 | 74,515 | It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you. | Walter Gilbert | work |
9,343 | 38,469 | There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. | Henry Adams | intelligence |
10,972 | 66,005 | Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen. | Keith Henson | success |
4,651 | 70,324 | You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it. | Edward Coke | trust |
8,852 | 38,503 | We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change. | John Sununu | intelligence |
8,966 | 5,101 | Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit. | Paul Twitchell | attitude |
4,897 | 53,046 | The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul. | Alfred Adler | peace |
5,318 | 24,083 | Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. | William Arthur Ward | forgiveness |
5,101 | 68,380 | The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. | Henry Ford | time |
2,923 | 64,015 | I got amazing training both with Theatre Sports... back in Edmonton, Alberta - I can't give those people enough credit - and the daytime drama I did. Incredible training, both of them. | Nathan Fillion | sports |
4,908 | 72,518 | Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war. | Bianca Jagger | war |
7,520 | 67,546 | The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport. | Laurent Fabius | technology |
3,135 | 61,644 | I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill. | J. K. Rowling | science |
5,044 | 65,409 | An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one. | Charles Horton Cooley | success |
5,109 | 28,227 | The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. | Victor Hugo | god |
10,425 | 7,225 | I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.' | Mika Brzezinski | birthday |
11,520 | 69,067 | I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly. | Mason Cooley | time |
6,237 | 62,372 | My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world. | Elizabeth Moon | science |
97 | 69,470 | Travel teaches as much as books. | Youssou N'Dour | travel |
867 | 47,395 | It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message. | Joel Osteen | money |
2,484 | 48,799 | I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit. | Dakota Fanning | morning |
11,139 | 26,303 | My main point is to be funny if I can slip a message in there, fine. | Flip Wilson | funny |
11,173 | 42,417 | There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. | Henry David Thoreau | life |
6,187 | 25,264 | A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | friendship |
561 | 67,024 | It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field. | Stephen Covey | technology |
9,606 | 69,439 | I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there. | Bill Kreutzmann | travel |
1,269 | 19,325 | You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff. | George H. W. Bush | faith |
4,988 | 45,237 | Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. | Charles de Gaulle | men |
5,908 | 54,723 | I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. | Adrian Mitchell | poetry |
3,372 | 35,837 | Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. | Epictetus | hope |
6,789 | 7,360 | If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. | B. C. Forbes | business |
2,678 | 10,162 | In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to have direct communication. You can say, 'I can't describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.' | James Blunt | communication |
7,141 | 50,699 | The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. | Brian Eno | music |
6,593 | 53,369 | The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. | Paul Theroux | peace |
4,902 | 33,634 | The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading in joy or sorrow, health or illness. | Holbrook Jackson | health |
7,007 | 29,164 | I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. | Groucho Marx | good |
3,460 | 23,200 | Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian. | Kirk Cameron | food |
9,523 | 75,256 | I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me. | Kim Kardashian | work |
7,861 | 21,606 | Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies. | Berenice Bejo | famous |
4,152 | 12,095 | I just wish I could understand my father. | Michael Jackson | dad |
7,863 | 15,022 | It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. | Erma Bombeck | dreams |
4,740 | 69,728 | Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something. | Eric Hoffer | trust |
6,928 | 53,341 | I am deeply concerned that, without peace and a two-state solution, the Jewish and democratic nature of Israel is in danger. That's why I have opposed Israel's settlement policy since 1973, and that's why I have favored a two-state solution since 1967. | Alan Dershowitz | peace |
6,007 | 75,017 | God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal. | Samuel Butler | work |
5,749 | 51,216 | Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. | Helen Keller | nature |
638 | 26,945 | To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people. | Alice Walker | future |
4,087 | 4,044 | Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy. | Akhenaton | art |
5,465 | 68,573 | It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend. | Margaret Thatcher | time |
6,180 | 7,521 | Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business. | Warren Buffett | business |
6,105 | 7,412 | If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. | Jane Fonda | business |
5,342 | 47,620 | To understand someone, find out how he spends his money. | Mason Cooley | money |
4,415 | 73,450 | Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor. | Coco Chanel | women |
9,110 | 27,563 | The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. | Robertson Davies | future |
11,717 | 50,537 | I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running. | Lady Gaga | music |
7,305 | 18,913 | Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success. | Tom Kite | failure |
7,783 | 22,850 | I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any. | Merton Miller | finance |
3,844 | 19,282 | We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter. | John D. Rockefeller | faith |
6,527 | 66,138 | I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there. | Wiz Khalifa | success |
3,922 | 51,892 | I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide. | Emily Bronte | nature |
8,496 | 39,778 | Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. | George Boole | knowledge |
2,170 | 41,377 | But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for. | Anna Neagle | learning |
1,491 | 73,237 | Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race. | Stanley Kunitz | wisdom |
6,468 | 19,133 | My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium. | Dalai Lama | faith |
7,523 | 37,492 | Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. | Thomas Carlyle | imagination |
9,503 | 64,796 | To us Americans much has been given of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power. | Norman Thomas | strength |
7,030 | 41,897 | He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. | Friedrich Nietzsche | life |
3,049 | 53,031 | We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. | Jimmy Carter | peace |
3,214 | 15,737 | Dreams have as much influence as actions. | Stephane Mallarme | dreams |
820 | 16,097 | Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement. | Ron Lewis | education |
4,641 | 31,405 | I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling! | Zac Efron | great |
2,008 | 37,673 | The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from. | Bryan Cranston | imagination |
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