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3,260 | 59,748 | I have so much respect for my mom and all the women across the world. | Jessica Simpson | respect |
5,821 | 43,336 | He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. | Benjamin Franklin | love |
11,389 | 51,447 | Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. | Friedrich Nietzsche | nature |
2,336 | 51,953 | For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable. | Liam Neeson | nature |
1,874 | 37,990 | I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful. | Rachel Zoe | imagination |
5,540 | 59,491 | Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom. | Tim Allen | respect |
26 | 51,085 | I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music. | Nick Cave | music |
10,383 | 19,914 | I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life. | Gene Robinson | faith |
3,040 | 54,674 | Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. | Patrick White | poetry |
8,006 | 10,191 | The art of communication is the language of leadership. | James Humes | communication |
605 | 12,414 | You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing. | Leonardo DiCaprio | dad |
4,401 | 25,930 | I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room. | Mercedes McCambridge | funny |
6,513 | 1,846 | I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well. | Jenna Bush | alone |
4,804 | 52,976 | If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. | Marvin Gaye | peace |
8,577 | 21,722 | There are many victories worse than a defeat. | George Eliot | fear |
5,935 | 56,097 | There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging. | Ray Dalio | positive |
11,346 | 44,534 | It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both. | Guy de Maupassant | marriage |
10,319 | 70,006 | I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy. | Cher | trust |
8,042 | 36,981 | I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor. | Louis C. K. | humor |
11,813 | 27,238 | We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. | Jacob Bronowski | future |
6,534 | 61,149 | It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say. | Ricki Lake | sad |
8,976 | 2,691 | Mark Conseulos is so amazing. | Lily Rabe | amazing |
3,503 | 2,902 | If we're given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution, and it's amazing how good we are at it. | Jon Brion | amazing |
929 | 60,216 | I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries. | Jose Manuel Barroso | respect |
9,074 | 61,891 | Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality. | Friedrich Durrenmatt | science |
3,610 | 2,418 | It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont. | Trey Anastasio | amazing |
8,470 | 75,566 | For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed. | Chris Evans | christmas |
9,483 | 2,390 | Me and my friend Ioan Gruffudd are like chalk and cheese when it comes to clothes. He lives for his clothes and has an amazing wardrobe. If we're going out I'll turn up at his house and say, 'I haven't got anything to wear,' and he'll tut and sigh and then lend me something swanky. | Matthew Rhys | amazing |
8,310 | 67,438 | My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. | Sidney Altman | technology |
4,241 | 40,754 | I never found accents difficult, after learning languages. | Vivien Leigh | learning |
6,244 | 49,939 | When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s, they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I'm upset that there's no 'Terminator' with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money. | Ellen Barkin | movies |
3,238 | 67,371 | Today we're focused on small acquisitions to add technology where necessary. I think it's fair to say we're not out looking for a large one, but I think it's also very fair to say that as a public company you can never say never. | Sanjay Kumar | technology |
11,374 | 68,460 | Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. | Jean-Paul Sartre | time |
5,484 | 72,972 | Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together. | Edmund Burke | wisdom |
11,637 | 50,613 | I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me. | Jack Black | music |
5,682 | 49,276 | I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were. | Elvis Presley | movies |
4,126 | 22,643 | I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges. | Alexander Wang | fear |
2,030 | 44,603 | But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating. | Linda McCartney | marriage |
2,964 | 26,928 | My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. | Charles Kettering | future |
8,771 | 69,960 | I always have issues with trust. | Vin Diesel | trust |
3,046 | 52,785 | Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. | Swami Sivananda | peace |
6,389 | 35,415 | There is not a lot of separation between work and home life. | Cate Blanchett | home |
8,290 | 58,759 | I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again. | Christopher Hitchens | religion |
2,796 | 21,497 | In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. | Norman O. Brown | famous |
2,569 | 72,791 | Wisdom is learning what to overlook. | William James | wisdom |
3,397 | 70,323 | I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks. | Sue Grafton | trust |
5,419 | 34,031 | The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. | Stephen Hawking | history |
1,350 | 28,922 | Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. | Mahatma Gandhi | good |
5,002 | 71,977 | For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I'm here to set that record straight. | Allen West | war |
1,083 | 15,280 | All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time. | Otto Dix | dreams |
1,936 | 42,545 | 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 | life |
1,255 | 54,878 | Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? | Robert Orben | politics |
11,387 | 459 | I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age. | Mario Andretti | age |
6,274 | 9,546 | They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me. | R. Kelly | change |
8,458 | 42,293 | Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living? | Mahatma Gandhi | life |
5,899 | 72,577 | I'm one of those people who has always been a bridesmaid. | Piper Laurie | wedding |
9,315 | 55,622 | I think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn't exist about America. | Tim Scott | politics |
6,823 | 47,688 | There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. | Robert Graves | money |
83 | 62,327 | Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon. | Sidney Altman | science |
154 | 31,893 | Never mind your happiness do your duty. | Peter Drucker | happiness |
10,140 | 22,230 | We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed. | Jean de la Bruyere | fear |
4,927 | 36,969 | Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important. | Ludwig Wittgenstein | humor |
10,674 | 9,700 | I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence. | Alan Rickman | change |
5,406 | 42,014 | Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. | Frank Lloyd Wright | life |
2,669 | 17,514 | And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree. | Donald Norman | experience |
5,891 | 4,715 | There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. | Robert Collier | attitude |
7,395 | 23,033 | My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful. | Alan Thicke | fitness |
8,588 | 58,892 | Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion. | Dennis Prager | religion |
3,850 | 26,814 | I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side. | Steven Wright | future |
1,809 | 9,032 | I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details. | Brooke Langton | car |
8,855 | 60,891 | Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness. | Nick Hornby | sad |
4,763 | 5,501 | Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts. | Serge Gainsbourg | beauty |
9,146 | 30,722 | Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated. | Erma Bombeck | graduation |
11,632 | 28,482 | The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. | Alan Watts | god |
5,223 | 23,366 | Junk food drags you down. | Miranda Lambert | food |
10,632 | 22,539 | When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil. | Ray Comfort | fear |
8,789 | 73,248 | I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it. | Peter Jennings | wisdom |
6,736 | 48,176 | First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times. | Ovid | morning |
5,647 | 68,681 | Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. | Thomas Carlyle | time |
1,875 | 37,234 | Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. | Sergio Aragones | humor |
6,289 | 2,505 | My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world. | Warwick Davis | amazing |
3,291 | 28,938 | Paris is always a good idea. | Audrey Hepburn | good |
3,148 | 63,630 | Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president. | Marlon Wayans | society |
7,807 | 17,607 | To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. | Christopher Hitchens | experience |
9,684 | 53,468 | We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves. | Peter Yarrow | peace |
4,570 | 46,169 | How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. | Alice Walker | mom |
644 | 4,238 | The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. | John Lasseter | art |
460 | 195 | It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. | Bertrand Russell | age |
7,668 | 51,744 | Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient. | Thomas Aquinas | nature |
10,004 | 60,800 | Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep. | Janet Street-Porter | romantic |
5,118 | 19,771 | I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith. | Mark Burnett | faith |
5,834 | 72,109 | I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. | Doris Lessing | war |
2,042 | 7,745 | Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits. | Carter G. Woodson | business |
3,719 | 28,709 | Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television. | Joan Rivers | god |
4,402 | 63,479 | Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time. | J. J. Abrams | society |
9,178 | 22,486 | You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do. | Bear Grylls | fear |
7,855 | 17,532 | Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. | Greg Anderson | experience |
11,672 | 60,525 | Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it. | John Cusack | romantic |
9,066 | 39,223 | A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. | Milan Kundera | knowledge |
5,580 | 13,707 | I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death? | Deepak Chopra | death |