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11,685	27,797	They always win who side with God.	Frederick William Faber	god
2,911	39,971	Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.	Henry Ward Beecher	leadership
4,183	75,074	I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.	Taylor Swift	work
8,778	63,582	As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.	Daniel H. Wilson	society
8,904	71,757	Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.	Baruch Spinoza	war
6,049	69,181	Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.	William S. Burroughs	travel
2,516	20,940	When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.	Jane Goodall	family
11,004	27,117	Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.	Hannah Arendt	future
5,370	17,066	Virtue can only flourish among equals.	Mary Wollstonecraft	equality
3,928	52,850	Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.	John Wooden	peace
9,898	2,878	Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.	Steve Cropper	amazing
9,179	69,367	Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.	John Berger	travel
7,188	57,610	The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.	Madalyn Murray O'Hair	relationship
2,133	23,062	Beware the hobby that eats.	Benjamin Franklin	food
7,633	24,803	Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.	Lech Walesa	freedom
5,511	24,359	Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.	Oprah Winfrey	freedom
6,438	40,190	The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.	Carlos Ghosn	leadership
1,640	25,206	An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.	Buddha	friendship
7,116	62,463	Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.	Les Brown	smile
5,414	10,389	There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.	Ken Olsen	computers
5,117	43,798	If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.	Charles Caleb Colton	love
4,572	44,714	What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.	Alfred Russel Wallace	marriage
3,822	43,826	I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.	Angelina Jolie	love
5,381	58,642	I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.	B. R. Ambedkar	religion
7,392	39,938	Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.	David K. Shipler	knowledge
594	57,519	I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.	Jim Carrey	relationship
6,458	29,139	If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But... If its real... you'll feel it.	Kid Rock	good
3,745	59,168	Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.	Lafcadio Hearn	religion
10,844	37,143	Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.	Joshua Foer	humor
766	70,687	Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'	Khalil Gibran	truth
8,760	44,023	I married beneath me, all women do.	Nancy Astor	marriage
6,341	56,147	We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.	Chen Shui-bian	positive
9,095	20,691	'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.	Rob Sheffield	family
2,493	68,742	I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.	Mark Zuckerberg	time
75	57,179	It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?	Glenn Danzig	power
8,000	14,182	Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.	Carl Hiaasen	death
5,499	45,774	All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.	Noah Webster	men
29	31,564	To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.	Samuel Johnson	great
8,761	31,301	The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.	Bertrand Russell	great
1,946	27,286	A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.	Daisaku Ikeda	future
5,282	62,601	I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.	Brooke Shields	smile
7,240	22,224	I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.	Bell Hooks	fear
1,257	38,854	Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.	Johannes Brahms	jealousy
591	72,111	Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.	Elizabeth Bowen	war
10,778	22,015	Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.	John Calvin	fear
2,583	51,434	We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	nature
3,485	67,158	Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.	Robert Rodriguez	technology
9,318	38,810	For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).	Douglas Hofstadter	intelligence
4,965	72,170	The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	war
1,566	10,985	I don't watch reality TV. I'm cool.	Dave Attell	cool
1,369	32,609	The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.	Joseph Butler	happiness
11,152	39,064	Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.	George Bernard Shaw	knowledge
2,174	48,952	Before I go to bed at night, I ice my face, because it closes your pores and makes a difference in the morning.	Jasmine Tookes	morning
5,786	11,323	A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.	Chrisette Michele	cool
8,610	20,729	My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes.	Emily Deschanel	family
5,250	41,284	Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.	Jamie Moyer	learning
6,816	45,880	The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.	Gilbert K. Chesterton	men
6,302	40,968	You keep learning all the time.	Vanessa Paradis	learning
6,535	51,861	We must return to nature and nature's god.	Luther Burbank	nature
9,545	67,727	Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.	Mark Warner	technology
3,717	54,257	For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.	Tahar Ben Jelloun	poetry
6,961	59,544	There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.	Walter Hagen	respect
10,437	60,778	Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.	Susannah McCorkle	romantic
489	43,813	I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.	Todd Barry	love
2,194	58,409	You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.	Swami Vivekananda	religion
4,444	50,652	Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.	Robert Plant	music
5,810	24,992	The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.	Ho Chi Minh	freedom
2,306	35,704	I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.	Roger Moore	home
7,174	7,611	My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.	Anthony Hopkins	business
9,072	43,134	We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.	Martin Luther King, Jr.	love
1,439	37,967	I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.	Ben Lovett	imagination
4,313	1,773	The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.	Augusten Burroughs	alone
2,244	12,435	My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.	Marion Cotillard	dad
6,551	75,741	I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great.	Jacques Pepin	easter
11,773	6,854	Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.	Heinrich Heine	best
3,383	70,530	The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.	Winston Churchill	truth
6,084	46,991	I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.	Teri Hatcher	mom
4,679	66	Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.	Kitty O'Neill Collins	age
1,960	66,162	The secret of my success is my hairspray.	Richard Gere	success
11,745	67,168	Technology has allowed us to have more drought-resistant crops. The spotty nature of drought, the spotty nature of rains can sometimes result in better yields than anticipated.	Tom Vilsack	technology
3,084	17,926	All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.	Sonia Sotomayor	experience
3,299	28,890	The good man is the friend of all living things.	Mahatma Gandhi	good
5,475	20,403	When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'	Drew Barrymore	family
4,725	73,802	A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!	Billy Sunday	women
6,814	61,202	I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.	Jackson Browne	sad
2,806	32,332	When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.	Nicole Kidman	happiness
403	69,643	Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.	Vita Sackville-West	travel
5,528	72,865	Wisdom begins at the end.	Daniel Webster	wisdom
531	6,386	That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.	Ernest Hemingway	best
2,169	1,814	There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can.	Alonzo Mourning	alone
658	5,888	Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.	Dave Reichert	beauty
8,823	58,680	I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.	Alice Walker	religion
8,816	7,777	I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.	David Byrne	business
9,549	11,366	I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all. Looking back on my career in television and making a movie like 'The Sound of Music' from an adult point of view, it actually seems kind of unreal. I was involved in shows that people grew up with - that hold memories for them - and it's a cool feeling.	Angela Cartwright	cool
3,034	48,065	It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.	Kathleen Turner	money
8,049	19,169	But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.	Alan Watts	faith
6,207	75,856	If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.	Brendan Behan	saintpatricksday
4,793	7,554	I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.	Richard Bach	business
9,306	68,957	I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.	Louis C. K.	time
8,279	48,458	I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.	Dave Eggers	morning

11,685

27,797

They always win who side with God.

Frederick William Faber

god

2,911

39,971

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beecher

leadership

4,183

75,074

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

Taylor Swift

work

8,778

63,582

As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.

Daniel H. Wilson

society

8,904

71,757

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

war

6,049

69,181

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

William S. Burroughs

travel

2,516

20,940

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

Jane Goodall

family

11,004

27,117

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

Hannah Arendt

future

5,370

17,066

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Mary Wollstonecraft

equality

3,928

52,850

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

John Wooden

peace

9,898

2,878

Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.

Steve Cropper

amazing

9,179

69,367

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

John Berger

travel

7,188

57,610

The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

relationship

2,133

23,062

Beware the hobby that eats.

Benjamin Franklin

food

7,633

24,803

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

Lech Walesa

freedom

5,511

24,359

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Oprah Winfrey

freedom

6,438

40,190

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

Carlos Ghosn

leadership

1,640

25,206

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

friendship

7,116

62,463

Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.

Les Brown

smile

5,414

10,389

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

Ken Olsen

computers

5,117

43,798

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.

Charles Caleb Colton

love

4,572

44,714

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.

Alfred Russel Wallace

marriage

3,822

43,826

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

Angelina Jolie

love

5,381

58,642

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

B. R. Ambedkar

religion

7,392

39,938

Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.

David K. Shipler

knowledge

594

57,519

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

Jim Carrey

relationship

6,458

29,139

If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But... If its real... you'll feel it.

Kid Rock

good

3,745

59,168

Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.

Lafcadio Hearn

religion

10,844

37,143

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

Joshua Foer

humor

766

70,687

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

Khalil Gibran

truth

8,760

44,023

I married beneath me, all women do.

Nancy Astor

marriage

6,341

56,147

We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.

Chen Shui-bian

positive

9,095

20,691

'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

Rob Sheffield

family

2,493

68,742

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Mark Zuckerberg

time

75

57,179

It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?

Glenn Danzig

power

8,000

14,182

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

Carl Hiaasen

death

5,499

45,774

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

Noah Webster

men

29

31,564

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

Samuel Johnson

great

8,761

31,301

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Bertrand Russell

great

1,946

27,286

A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.

Daisaku Ikeda

future

5,282

62,601

I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.

Brooke Shields

smile

7,240

22,224

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

Bell Hooks

fear

1,257

38,854

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

Johannes Brahms

jealousy

591

72,111

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Elizabeth Bowen

war

10,778

22,015

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

John Calvin

fear

2,583

51,434

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

nature

3,485

67,158

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

Robert Rodriguez

technology

9,318

38,810

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

Douglas Hofstadter

intelligence

4,965

72,170

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

war

1,566

10,985

I don't watch reality TV. I'm cool.

Dave Attell

cool

1,369

32,609

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

Joseph Butler

happiness

11,152

39,064

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw

knowledge

2,174

48,952

Before I go to bed at night, I ice my face, because it closes your pores and makes a difference in the morning.

Jasmine Tookes

morning

5,786

11,323

A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.

Chrisette Michele

cool

8,610

20,729

My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes.

Emily Deschanel

family

5,250

41,284

Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.

Jamie Moyer

learning

6,816

45,880

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

men

6,302

40,968

You keep learning all the time.

Vanessa Paradis

learning

6,535

51,861

We must return to nature and nature's god.

Luther Burbank

nature

9,545

67,727

Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.

Mark Warner

technology

3,717

54,257

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

poetry

6,961

59,544

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

Walter Hagen

respect

10,437

60,778

Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.

Susannah McCorkle

romantic

489

43,813

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

Todd Barry

love

2,194

58,409

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Swami Vivekananda

religion

4,444

50,652

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

Robert Plant

music

5,810

24,992

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

Ho Chi Minh

freedom

2,306

35,704

I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.

Roger Moore

home

7,174

7,611

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Anthony Hopkins

business

9,072

43,134

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

love

1,439

37,967

I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.

Ben Lovett

imagination

4,313

1,773

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

Augusten Burroughs

alone

2,244

12,435

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

Marion Cotillard

dad

6,551

75,741

I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great.

Jacques Pepin

easter

11,773

6,854

Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Heinrich Heine

best

3,383

70,530

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Winston Churchill

truth

6,084

46,991

I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.

Teri Hatcher

mom

4,679

66

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Kitty O'Neill Collins

age

1,960

66,162

The secret of my success is my hairspray.

Richard Gere

success

11,745

67,168

Technology has allowed us to have more drought-resistant crops. The spotty nature of drought, the spotty nature of rains can sometimes result in better yields than anticipated.

Tom Vilsack

technology

3,084

17,926

All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.

Sonia Sotomayor

experience

3,299

28,890

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Mahatma Gandhi

good

5,475

20,403

When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'

Drew Barrymore

family

4,725

73,802

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

Billy Sunday

women

6,814

61,202

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

Jackson Browne

sad

2,806

32,332

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

happiness

403

69,643

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.

Vita Sackville-West

travel

5,528

72,865

Wisdom begins at the end.

Daniel Webster

wisdom

531

6,386

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Ernest Hemingway

best

2,169

1,814

There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can.

Alonzo Mourning

alone

658

5,888

Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.

Dave Reichert

beauty

8,823

58,680

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.

Alice Walker

religion

8,816

7,777

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

David Byrne

business

9,549

11,366

I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all. Looking back on my career in television and making a movie like 'The Sound of Music' from an adult point of view, it actually seems kind of unreal. I was involved in shows that people grew up with - that hold memories for them - and it's a cool feeling.

Angela Cartwright

cool

3,034

48,065

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.

Kathleen Turner

money

8,049

19,169

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Alan Watts

faith

6,207

75,856

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

Brendan Behan

saintpatricksday

4,793

7,554

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Richard Bach

business

9,306

68,957

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

Louis C. K.

time

8,279

48,458

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

Dave Eggers

morning