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6,048 | 75,541 | I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy. | Jonathan Kozol | christmas |
6,459 | 67,528 | My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race. | K. Eric Drexler | technology |
10,974 | 71,889 | To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. | George Santayana | war |
8,597 | 62,462 | A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love. | Thomas Chandler Haliburton | smile |
9,891 | 43,307 | Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you. | William Arthur Ward | love |
1,549 | 59,004 | In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal. | Carol P. Christ | religion |
9,232 | 14,962 | I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child. | Neal Barnard | diet |
2,858 | 32,460 | How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made? | Dan Savage | happiness |
9,697 | 61,224 | When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments. | Tom Glazer | sad |
988 | 15,682 | Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?' | Sue Monk Kidd | dreams |
9,427 | 66,373 | A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning. | Brad Henry | teacher |
8,358 | 3,924 | Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. | Laurence J. Peter | art |
984 | 73,572 | A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward. | Minna Antrim | women |
6,494 | 50,857 | Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool. | Maynard James Keenan | music |
2,045 | 54,728 | The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it. | Robert Penn Warren | poetry |
3,614 | 69,099 | Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. | Benjamin Disraeli | travel |
1,710 | 58,836 | There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves. | Jesse Ventura | religion |
6,505 | 52,056 | The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. | Auguste Rodin | nature |
5,410 | 59,660 | I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest. | Eva Longoria | respect |
7,932 | 25,142 | Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent. | Natan Sharansky | freedom |
2,088 | 47,937 | If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case. | Ang Lee | money |
4,382 | 70,369 | You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away. | Ali Smith | trust |
8,730 | 18,563 | Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo. | Camille Paglia | failure |
2,153 | 12,480 | My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did. | Jeb Bush | dad |
8,937 | 50,932 | I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul. | Dick Dale | music |
10,204 | 47,505 | He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief. | Jose Marti | money |
6,306 | 75,026 | I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too. | James Dean | work |
6,489 | 31,008 | Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. | Mae West | great |
8,832 | 40,605 | A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well. | Dan Rather | learning |
10,839 | 44,482 | My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol. | Mercedes McCambridge | marriage |
916 | 35,491 | When I was 14, I felt very rundown I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that. | Gus Van Sant | home |
2,376 | 75,267 | I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back. | Lady Gaga | work |
6,233 | 43,444 | My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water. | Kelly Clarkson | love |
8,166 | 52,212 | Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride. | Ron Taffel | parenting |
148 | 48,739 | What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that. | William Scranton | morning |
2,107 | 15,044 | I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. | Zhuangzi | dreams |
1,239 | 4,571 | The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. | Walter Benjamin | art |
6,708 | 8,225 | Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business. | Gwyneth Paltrow | business |
10,229 | 56,122 | When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada. | Paul Cellucci | positive |
7,910 | 44,702 | Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist. | Masaharu Morimoto | marriage |
8,062 | 11,099 | I get really cool gifts, and I know this sounds really lame, but I think one of the best gifts I've ever received was the Easy Bake Oven when I was younger. When I was little, I loved to bake! I want to get one now so I can make weird mini desserts for people. | Ashley Benson | cool |
5,683 | 53,892 | Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want. | Connie Stevens | pet |
4,384 | 45,456 | Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men. | Marilyn Monroe | men |
1,066 | 65,514 | If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. | Calvin Coolidge | success |
9,265 | 66,554 | My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish. | Flip Wilson | teacher |
11,172 | 68,849 | To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No jerks allowed, members pay on time and if they give you any crap, throw them out. There's peace where there's order. | Joe Gold | time |
8,909 | 26,868 | Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. | Robert H. Schuller | future |
6,109 | 165 | Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. | James Joyce | age |
6,142 | 75,231 | If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it. | Ben Stein | work |
6,151 | 731 | I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time. | Greer Garson | age |
6,549 | 12,440 | I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work. | Eric Bana | dad |
8,953 | 65,901 | Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy. | Jonathan Sacks | success |
4,702 | 7,471 | The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions. | John Hancock | business |
10,618 | 6,799 | It is best to love wisely, no doubt but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. | William Makepeace Thackeray | best |
10,667 | 35,958 | I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back. | Steve Jobs | hope |
4,811 | 47,598 | But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money. | Little Richard | money |
2,846 | 15,769 | Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky. | Arna Bontemps | dreams |
2,708 | 62,540 | We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society. | Bryan Cranston | smile |
1,426 | 7,730 | I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way. | Mick Jagger | business |
4,833 | 50,981 | I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too just different than mine. | Beth Ditto | music |
2,142 | 69,959 | Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others. | Simon Mainwaring | trust |
5,108 | 42,880 | Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. | Barbara de Angelis | love |
6,672 | 26,621 | I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up. | Jennifer Ellison | funny |
2,250 | 54,433 | And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry. | Lynn Johnston | poetry |
9,431 | 42,450 | If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers! | Marilyn Monroe | life |
2,625 | 38,329 | People are smarter than you might think. | John Astin | intelligence |
5,260 | 45,955 | Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid. | Rita Rudner | men |
461 | 31,045 | Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | great |
3,639 | 17,697 | People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience. | Mikhail Baryshnikov | experience |
391 | 53,971 | Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. | Marilyn Hacker | poetry |
982 | 13,685 | As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. | Leonardo DaVinci | death |
8,785 | 33,633 | But I don't want to be out there anymore I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose. | Toni Braxton | health |
4,916 | 38,965 | If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. | Henry Ford | knowledge |
8,621 | 51,915 | Nature is the art of God. | Dante Alighieri | nature |
10,214 | 74,958 | I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life. | Harvey Fierstein | work |
5,308 | 27,001 | The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years. | Jacques Yves Cousteau | future |
9,734 | 75,746 | I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves. | Leon Uris | easter |
7,925 | 2,664 | Well, I want to do The Music Man. I think it's an amazing opportunity, but I think that they are probably looking at major movie stars right now, and I don't blame them. | Gregory Harrison | amazing |
7,791 | 28,249 | I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me. | Lil Wayne | god |
7,533 | 49,994 | Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that. | Famke Janssen | movies |
10,512 | 11,833 | You can't test courage cautiously. | Annie Dillard | courage |
10,997 | 8,680 | What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars. I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway. The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic. | Alan Jackson | car |
3,243 | 21,241 | It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer. | Juliette Binoche | famous |
8,841 | 38,003 | Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. | Jacques Maritain | imagination |
8,241 | 71,898 | Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry. | Susan B. Anthony | war |
10,458 | 5,633 | I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. | Zoe Saldana | beauty |
7,027 | 58,199 | What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager. | Barry McGuigan | relationship |
8,230 | 37,733 | I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare. | Andrew Wyeth | imagination |
8,614 | 68,652 | I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for. | Scott Brooks | time |
524 | 72,665 | For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda. | Phyllis Battelle | wedding |
7,666 | 33,313 | Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality. | William Falconer | health |
10,765 | 62,703 | I wake up every day with a smile on my face. | Henry Ian Cusick | smile |
6,342 | 48,732 | Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday. | Melanie Laurent | morning |
8,914 | 25,276 | There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. | Paramahansa Yogananda | friendship |
6,675 | 70,185 | It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real. | Mariel Hemingway | trust |
6,558 | 57,189 | A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light. | Henri Matisse | power |
7,287 | 34,536 | Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself. | Ken Kesey | history |
8,491 | 1,242 | The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. | Rene Descartes | alone |
3,362 | 63,760 | You can't win unless you learn how to lose. | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | sports |
1,808 | 18,743 | There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. | Brian Ferneyhough | failure |