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4,078 | 65,763 | Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth. | Shirley MacLaine | success |
7,041 | 8,630 | When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don't even think about that. | Sebastian Vettel | car |
1,286 | 60,700 | We have got too many kids around the house to have a romantic meal at home. But Danielle is a fantastic cook. She does a brilliant lasagne, great roasts and a great chilli dish. She knows the way to my heart. | Gary Lineker | romantic |
9,153 | 30,200 | The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. | Martin Van Buren | government |
4,205 | 10,097 | Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. | Carol Burnett | communication |
4,652 | 33,886 | People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. | Dan Quayle | history |
1,823 | 63,558 | As society advances the standard of poverty rises. | Theodore Parker | society |
6,889 | 12,899 | I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad. | Abbie Cornish | dad |
11,151 | 12,380 | I'll back up anything my dad says. | Floyd Mayweather, Jr. | dad |
3,066 | 41,910 | Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. | Henry David Thoreau | life |
2,639 | 26,002 | I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive. | Jerry Seinfeld | funny |
10,896 | 75,959 | I'm like the kid in kindergarten I really do send valentines to everyone. | Susie Bright | valentinesday |
5,667 | 26,269 | My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty. | Ian Hislop | funny |
4,978 | 33,979 | If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. | C. S. Lewis | history |
7,943 | 4,390 | Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. | Robert Motherwell | art |
10,642 | 4,842 | There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work. | Kiefer Sutherland | attitude |
7,519 | 44,230 | The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity. | Dan Savage | marriage |
10,126 | 62,581 | My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye. | Wilbur Smith | smile |
2,959 | 75,077 | Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead. | Marty Meehan | work |
2,487 | 55,775 | On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity. | Mark Udall | politics |
9,145 | 68,953 | I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time. | Danica Patrick | time |
7,683 | 32,936 | All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. | John Locke | health |
2,116 | 30,153 | The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure. | Rick Perry | government |
7,718 | 9,820 | A change in bad habits leads to a change in life. | Jenny Craig | change |
2,104 | 19,568 | What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves. | Paul Wellstone | faith |
4,510 | 17,287 | Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. | Anna Howard Shaw | equality |
759 | 70,895 | Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. | Blaise Pascal | truth |
237 | 40,575 | We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals. | Stephen Covey | learning |
3,800 | 68,461 | Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time. | Thomas J. Watson | time |
2,011 | 15,188 | The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die. | Edward Kennedy | dreams |
2,671 | 41,325 | As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say. | Tom Udall | learning |
11,539 | 46,486 | I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language. | Patti Stanger | mom |
5,147 | 54,556 | That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music. | David Amram | poetry |
1,362 | 24,059 | Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. | Oscar Wilde | forgiveness |
910 | 27,541 | If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work. | Tim Hardaway | future |
11,321 | 44,768 | The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so. | Harriet Martineau | marriage |
6,588 | 9,907 | Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was. | Ben Vereen | change |
9,321 | 26,476 | It's funny, because I did all of these interviews as soon as I had the baby, and they were asking questions, and I really didn't have an idea of anything, because I was so blurry. | Emily Procter | funny |
80 | 62,505 | I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person. | Drew Barrymore | smile |
10,180 | 68,208 | All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. | Friedrich Nietzsche | time |
533 | 38,947 | Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions. | Adrian Lyne | jealousy |
10,726 | 61,291 | I was always depressed growing up. There wasn't a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot and that was how I dealt with it. | Amanda Hocking | sad |
4,197 | 4,616 | I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him. | Shirley MacLaine | art |
5,886 | 43,328 | I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. | W. H. Auden | love |
10,258 | 36,802 | It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon. | Marat Safin | hope |
6,711 | 18,386 | Success is never final, but failure can be. | Bill Parcells | failure |
1,742 | 25,453 | Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things. | Adam Sandler | friendship |
9,940 | 14,176 | Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony. | Jack Kevorkian | death |
4,059 | 47,060 | My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers. | Pauly Shore | mom |
9,741 | 62,596 | I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out. | Patti LaBelle | smile |
1,266 | 14,599 | So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed. | Debi Thomas | design |
5,299 | 65,173 | To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher. | Arthur Holly Compton | strength |
10,738 | 45,728 | Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. | Pope John XXIII | men |
9,869 | 5,461 | Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | beauty |
8,404 | 73,922 | The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less. | Franklin P. Adams | women |
11,578 | 28,600 | Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone. | Abu Bakar Bashir | god |
6,732 | 10,250 | When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete. | Dan O'Brien | communication |
10,256 | 73,916 | A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. | Ani DiFranco | women |
2,891 | 23,557 | I only like food without color, like potatoes, bread, and pasta. | Emma Roberts | food |
10,219 | 73,766 | Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. | Anita Brookner | women |
6,174 | 72,829 | Memory is the mother of all wisdom. | Aeschylus | wisdom |
2,672 | 29,792 | The essence of good government is trust. | Kathleen Sebelius | government |
5,175 | 66,942 | For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift. | Wernher von Braun | technology |
2,594 | 3,424 | In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. | Delia Ephron | architecture |
3,755 | 42,804 | I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. | Igor Stravinsky | life |
7,234 | 51,680 | All nature is but art unknown to thee. | Alexander Pope | nature |
8,550 | 37,530 | Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza. | Franz Kafka | imagination |
5,236 | 38,116 | Belief creates the actual fact. | William James | inspirational |