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4,996 | 65,616 | No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist. | J. Paul Getty | success |
2,059 | 6,248 | The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? | Edgar Allan Poe | best |
7,222 | 40,648 | Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. | Wilma Rudolph | learning |
1,043 | 33,965 | France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history. | Francois Mitterrand | history |
3,364 | 56,350 | At the last Celebration I spoke before an auditorium full of people and I could just feel the affection and the positive feelings that they were exuding. It was actually moving. I remember thinking, 'I'm not worthy,' because 'Star Wars' is so much bigger than all of us. | Mark Hamill | positive |
9,439 | 8,558 | When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween. | Gavin DeGraw | car |
1,380 | 17,381 | Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. | Thomas Jefferson | experience |
6,510 | 26,517 | Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it. | Harold Ramis | funny |
7,295 | 493 | Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you? | Casey Stengel | age |
5,549 | 68,611 | Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. | T. S. Eliot | time |
1,186 | 66,777 | If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure. | Jamie Moyer | teacher |
11,083 | 49,933 | My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run. | Carol Burnett | movies |
4,575 | 31,294 | Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. | Humphry Davy | great |
10,993 | 73,908 | The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. | Virginia Woolf | women |
6,256 | 2,087 | It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you. | Bill Ayers | amazing |
6,808 | 29,622 | Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. | Charles Dickens | good |
8,921 | 69,861 | So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. | Marcus Tullius Cicero | trust |
247 | 22,257 | One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too. | David Duchovny | fear |
9,199 | 11,703 | I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it. | Bill Rancic | courage |
791 | 21,219 | I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story. | Beth Ditto | famous |
9,931 | 75,881 | If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down. | Tony Snow | thanksgiving |
2,443 | 11,955 | That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives. | Kerry Washington | courage |
6,418 | 63,064 | We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. | Lyndon B. Johnson | society |
5,177 | 57,506 | The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. | Quentin Crisp | relationship |
538 | 49,060 | The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. | Confucius | motivational |
11,096 | 67,728 | I would like to see every parent either directly - if they are comfortable with the technology - or through a personal tutor, being able to access real-time information about their child. | Jim Knight | technology |
1,252 | 22,292 | I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head. | Malcolm Mclaren | fear |
5,514 | 6,556 | The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. | Wilson Mizner | best |
35 | 63,063 | The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people. | Olof Palme | society |
2,130 | 68,495 | They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. | Andy Warhol | time |
8,755 | 17,588 | It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. | Les Brown | experience |
8,265 | 70,294 | I trust no one totally. | Gary Sheffield | trust |
1 | 9,307 | The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change. | Richard Bach | change |
4,521 | 36,382 | Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. | Vaclav Havel | hope |
3,777 | 49,437 | I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies. | Richard King | movies |
5,387 | 29,866 | In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. | Voltaire | government |
10,441 | 63,838 | What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. | Arnold Palmer | sports |
9,387 | 25,325 | Love demands infinitely less than friendship. | George Jean Nathan | friendship |
8,297 | 8,064 | I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business. | Ashley Tisdale | business |
9,758 | 49,420 | I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies. | Daniel Craig | movies |
5,929 | 30,003 | In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government. | Thomas Carlyle | government |
5,193 | 74,635 | Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. | Theodore Isaac Rubin | work |
1,126 | 36,590 | I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear. | Thomas Friedman | hope |
830 | 60,841 | Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity. | Yoko Ono | sad |
3,196 | 64,362 | I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns. | Tom Hicks | sports |
7,736 | 68,680 | What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure. | Aldous Huxley | time |
7,328 | 53,742 | A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. | Josh Billings | pet |
10,747 | 8,829 | I want do some kind of action movie, car chases and explosions. | Devon Sawa | car |
6,440 | 63,222 | I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor. | Ishmael Reed | society |
4,812 | 6,224 | Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. | Winston Churchill | best |
11,379 | 13,498 | Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. | Thomas Carlyle | death |
7,937 | 28,970 | Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. | Plato | good |
4,488 | 20,456 | I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father. | David Beckham | family |
8,943 | 64,809 | All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have. | Arthur Scargill | strength |
5,188 | 16,106 | The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. | Noam Chomsky | education |
2,673 | 31,468 | He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. | Edmund Burke | great |
2,067 | 54,724 | Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. | Georges Braque | poetry |
1,494 | 2,198 | A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart. | Lewis Thomas | amazing |
3,730 | 60,933 | I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it. | Sidonie Gabrielle Colette | sad |
1,386 | 998 | It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. | Albert Einstein | alone |
4,904 | 31,052 | Life in abundance comes only through great love. | Elbert Hubbard | great |
3,864 | 21,823 | I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him. | Eleanor Roosevelt | fear |
171 | 74,244 | I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that. | Chris Brown | women |
4,666 | 1,420 | It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing. | Herodotus | alone |
9,789 | 63,432 | The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age. | Lascelles Abercrombie | society |
211 | 6,521 | The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. | Josh Billings | best |
2,435 | 75,548 | If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love. | Robbie Fowler | christmas |
3,158 | 4,960 | My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.' | Sally Hawkins | attitude |
8,017 | 10,735 | When I was kid, I remember playing 'Vogue' by Madonna over and over and over again. And ah, you know, something about the beat was really cool, and Madonna, visually, was on TV all the time and I thought she was just so beautiful. | Adam Lambert | cool |
10,555 | 21,771 | One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed. | Dustin Hoffman | fear |
9,011 | 75,254 | Evil gains work their punishment. | Sophocles | work |
1,575 | 74,232 | When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better. | Maria Sharapova | women |
4,951 | 20,707 | A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families. | Jim Bunning | family |
2,482 | 5,283 | It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. | Voltaire | beauty |
5,923 | 34,953 | On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home. | Joel Osteen | home |
2,070 | 58,650 | I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock. | Howard Stern | religion |
1,774 | 17,998 | No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. | Ellen Glasgow | experience |
11,663 | 55,372 | There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics. | Emma Goldman | politics |
827 | 19,040 | Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them. | Mahalia Jackson | faith |
7,086 | 53,403 | We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for. | Joichi Ito | peace |
679 | 66,972 | The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century. | Niklas Zennstrom | technology |
10,086 | 62,799 | After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. | William S. Burroughs | society |
509 | 31,154 | The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. | Ernest Hemingway | great |
4,515 | 58,652 | Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room. | Doug Coupland | religion |
2,736 | 13,786 | An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. | Jose Marti | death |
2,405 | 51,552 | Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. | Ambrose Bierce | nature |
835 | 39,621 | Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action. | Karl Jaspers | knowledge |
4,735 | 67,018 | What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people. | Philip Zimbardo | technology |
8,520 | 15,163 | You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know. | Steven Spielberg | dreams |
4,474 | 9,484 | The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. | R. D. Laing | change |
7,709 | 49,846 | I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act. | Kevin Bacon | movies |
7,658 | 15,159 | A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die. | Les Brown | dreams |
11,232 | 55,624 | I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else. | Charles Kennedy | politics |
2,937 | 50,500 | Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | music |
9,744 | 456 | Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package. | Keanu Reeves | age |
11,370 | 65,954 | It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that. | George Michael | success |
4,921 | 75,490 | Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit. | Kin Hubbard | christmas |
7,612 | 57,393 | This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know? | Jerry Lewis | power |
9,458 | 10,350 | Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village. | Thabo Mbeki | computers |
7,648 | 74,464 | Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. | Pablo Picasso | work |