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In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.
— Mary J. Blige
Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?
— Mitch McConnell
If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.
— Jerry Lewis
Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own we always have. It is not the government's responsibility. 
— Ben Carson
This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
— Ben Carson
Voters quickly forget what a man says.
— Richard M. Nixon
When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.
— Colin Powell
When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.
— David Mamet
All government wars are unjust.
— Murray Rothbard
I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.
— Sonia Sotomayor
What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.
— Samantha Power
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
— Woodrow Wilson
If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.
— Gail Collins
Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.
— Lysander Spooner
It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.
— Lysander Spooner
The secret ballot makes a secret government and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers. 
— Lysander Spooner
It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals.
— Lysander Spooner
There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.
— John C. Calhoun
You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.
— Chris Rock
I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists.
— Edward Snowden
We've supported the U.S. every step of the way. The Philippines was the first government in Asia after September 11, in fact, the night of September 11; it was nighttime for us then. It was daytime here. We were the first government in Asia to come out and say that we're supporting the U.S.
— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
— Wanda Sykes
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
— Jonathan Swift
In a way, NAFTA is like a scrambled egg. How do you unscramble an egg? The value chains are so interwoven that it would be very difficult to do that. But government policies force us to look for ways to unscramble it.
— Shahid Khan
The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of the former freedom-fighters are big-time capitalists. They've been given directorships in every major company. They're billionaires!
— Wilbur Smith
The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
— Milton Friedman
Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.
— Eliot Spitzer
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
— George McGovern
You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help solve different kinds of problems.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.
— Kin Hubbard
But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.
— Scott Walker
Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
— Elizabeth I
I totally accept that it's a legitimate criticism that when you are involved in the day-to-day scrum of government... that what can get lost is the narrative, the hymn sheet... the song that inspires and lifts people's sights.
— Nick Clegg
The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill.
— Lindsey Graham
The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
My fundamental interests are to preserve the good name and standing of this Australian Labor Party and to act in the national interest on behalf of the Australian Government.
— Kevin Rudd
What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.
— Oliver North
It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
— Walter Lippmann
I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.
— Stephen Harper
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
— Charles Barkley
We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.
— Larry Page
I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as long as they leave me alone.' Well, guess what, when you don't care what the government does, it does not leave you alone.
— Louie Gohmert
The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
— Harold Ford, Jr.
A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
— Larry Ellison
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
— Charles de Secondat
Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
— Robert Orben
If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.
— Lincoln Steffens
The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.
— Lincoln Steffens
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
— Benazir Bhutto
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
— Benazir Bhutto
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
— Wendell Phillips
People like getting what they think is free stuff from government.
— John Stossel
The basic idea that if you increase government spending or you cut people's taxes that stimulates the economy and lowers the unemployment rate, is a very widely accepted idea. It's in every economics textbook, that's what we teach our undergraduates, and I certainly try to teach them the truth.
— Christina Romer
It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry that's its highest and best application. 
— William Weld
Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
— Gerald R. Ford
I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.
— Andre Rieu
We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.
— Chuck Grassley
The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.
— Bob Riley
To me, regardless of who's in office, the government is strangled by business. And the government's priorities are dictated by business. I mean, why does America, even after healthcare reform, still not have free universal healthcare? I'm sure it has something to do with the insurance lobby.
— Andrew Dominik
Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.
— Ibrahim Babangida
Socialism means slavery.
— Lord Acton
I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.
— Kay Bailey Hutchison
Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.
— Martin Feldstein
Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.
— Rosa Luxemburg
The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces.
— Haile Selassie
When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
— Lawrence Lessig
Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
— Larry Elder
If children do not understand the Constitution, they cannot understand how our government functions, or what their rights and responsibilities are as citizens of the United States.
— John Roberts
Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.
— James Monroe
Financial crises require governments.
— Timothy Geithner
Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.
— Rick Mercer
Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does.
— John Hickenlooper
I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency?
— Richard Cobden
You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
— Karel Capek
A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.
— Brian Celio
Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.
— Bill Owens
As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.
— Bill Owens
Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.
— Jim Costa
Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.
— Taslima Nasrin
Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another.
— Vito Fossella
The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up getting in a situation where the U.S. government was sending out IOUs like the state of California did at one point, that ends up creating quite a brand problem for our country.
— Bob Corker
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
— Ezra Stiles
But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.
— Don Nickles
Neither the George W. Bush nor the Obama administrations volunteered to bail out G.M., Chrysler and other parts of the auto sector. Both subscribed firmly to the longstanding American principle that government should resolutely avoid these kinds of interventions, particularly in the industrial sector.
— Steven Rattner
God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.
— Algernon Sidney
We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.
— Manmohan Singh
We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.
— Manmohan Singh
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
— James F. Cooper
Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through.
— Luis Fortuno
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.
— Bill Moyers
But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.
— John Jay Hooker
The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.
— John Bright
The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.
— Tom G. Palmer
A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.
— AnnaLynne McCord
Margaret Thatcher was a 20th century visionary who understood the power of individual freedom versus the tyranny of government collectivism. She was a loyal supporter and friend of the United States and her terms as prime minister were marked as the beginning of the resurgence of the economy of the United Kingdom.
— Joseph J. Lhota
The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.
— Dixie Lee Ray
The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.
— Lyn Nofziger
People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.
— Robert Half
But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
— Jonathan Mayhew
The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.
— Jonathan Mayhew
When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.
— Mike Lee
There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.
— Os Guinness
But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.
— James Q. Wilson
It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. 
— Robert Jackson
It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.
— Robert Jackson
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
— Adrian Cronauer
Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
— Cullen Hightower
The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
— Cullen Hightower
The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the damage that has been done, which has not been completed yet.
— Mitch Landrieu
The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.
— Jack Layton
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
— Frederic Bastiat
There's huge opportunities to continue to improve efficiency in the way the government operates and improve the way government provides services to its citizens.
— Steve Daines
Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there's no consequences for some of these decisions they make.
— Rex Hunt
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
— Alexander Woollcott
From time to time, the irresponsible acts of the Cuban government remind us that this is far more than about the freedom of one country, but it really is about the stability and security of the region and the national security interests of the United States.
— Mel Martinez
Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to.
— Rod Blagojevich
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
— Lord Melbourne
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power. 
— Friedrich List
Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.
— King George V
Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.
— Gerald F. Lieberman
I don't like the idea that the government has so much of a say in things.
— Johnny Kelly
People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq.
— Jacob Zuma
Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.
— Lauren DeStefano
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
— Wilhelm Reich
As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.
— Dan Pfeiffer
The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.
— Chauncey Depew
The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.
— Grace Abbott
We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.
— Zoe Lofgren
We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.
— Leopoldo Lopez
The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution.
— Leopoldo Lopez
It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.
— Gideon Welles
The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.
— Jack Lynch
Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.
— James Mill
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
— Fred Woodworth
If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.
— Fred Woodworth
The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers.
— Peter Fraser
As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work.
— P. Sathasivam
There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
— Jack Nicholson
I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.
— Garry Shandling
I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.
— Mitch Hedberg
Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
— Joey Adams
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
— Mae West
You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.
— Heather Locklear
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
— Wayne Dyer
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
— Billie Holiday
If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.
— Candace Bushnell
I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
— Adam Levine
My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.
— Alicia Silverstone
A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
— Samuel Goldwyn
Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.
— Keanu Reeves
Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.
— Vanessa Hudgens
I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.
— Matthew Perry
However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.
— Francesca Annis
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
— Thomas Fuller
It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.
— James Levine
In my experience with women that I've dated and my wife now, is you have to know what they care about. And even if you aren't a huge fan of it, you still have to have interest in it and it has to be genuine because women do it for men all the time.
— Tim Meadows
I'm not old-fashioned when it comes to dating, but there's something nice about a guy pulling out a girl's chair and opening the door for her, even if it's just in the beginning.
— Lauren Conrad
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
— Martha Beck
The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.
— Clint Eastwood
Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.
— Toni Braxton
If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.
— Joe Rogan
It's just me and my 6-month-old puppy. I am not dating anyone.
— Bridget Hall
I have an urge to communicate. I think I'm a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn't talk too much.
— Drake
I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.
— Halsey
I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.
— Megan Fox
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
— Jim Bishop
If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.
— Jennifer Lopez
When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.
— Beyonce Knowles
I had a few dating disasters along the way with girls cheating on me. One girl was the inspiration for me singing 'Cry Me A River' on 'The X Factor.' That was my payback to her because she was unfaithful.
— Liam Payne
We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.
— Zig Ziglar
I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dating in my teenage years. I had all this desire to pursue my passions like ballet, then sailing, then music, so I didn't have any emptiness to fill.
— Kiesza
Celebrities say they date other celebrities because they have the same job. But I think they just like dating famous people. Celebrities attract each other, like cattle.
— Jason Lee
A simple compliment goes a really long way - for a guy to just come over and say, 'You have great hair' or 'I really like your dress,' and then just smile and walk away. That's a great move, because he's sort of putting himself out there by doing that, but it won't lead to any embarrassment if the girl isn't interested.
— Stacy Keibler
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
— Andre Maurois
As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
— Nora Ephron
Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
— Orson Welles
My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
— Rita Rudner
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.
— Richard Gere
I've dated some women who have turned me on to some funny things that are strange for men to actually do, but these things have become part of my process. I think the things I do for my appearance help make me look better. I even colour my hair because I like how it makes me look.
— Ryan Seacrest
To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads.
— Foxy Brown
It's ironic, really. Guys should be excited that I got Kristen Bell. If Brad Pitt gets Kristen Bell, it's like, 'Well, of course he did.' With me, it should be, 'Oh good, a normal-looking guy got her. Maybe I'll get me a Kristen Bell.' But guys hate my guts for always dating women I have no right to be with.
— Dax Shepard
Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.
— Douglas Coupland
Coming through the fire and through the storm of life with a strong man, my fiance Ashanti, whom I've been dating for eight months and two wonderful children beside me, I'm just so happy that I have been able to maintain my integrity and get to where I am today with the right energy around me.
— Angie Stone
Pamela Anderson Lee released a statement confirming that she has had her breast implants removed. Doctors say that Pamela is doing fine and that her old implants are now dating Charlie Sheen.
— Conan O'Brien
Dating has taught me what I want and don't want, who I am, and who I want to be.
— Jennifer Love Hewitt
Honestly, my dating life according to the tabloids is very exciting, and the most hilarious thing is that it's nowhere near as exciting as the tabloids have ever made it out to be.
— Margot Robbie
For a lot of the time I was in Berkeley, I was single. I was living in a kind of collegiate apartment by myself - it was like a protracted summer vacation. So at least in hindsight, I have gloomy emotions attached to Berkeley, whereas I started coming to New York because I was dating someone, and it was very exciting and romantic.
— Adrian Tomine
I enjoy dating. I love first dates. I think they're incredibly fascinating studies in human psychology. When you sit down across from someone on a first date and things are going alright, you talk objectives. We want to win each other over, so how do you win someone over? You have to put the best foot forward.
— Chris Pine
A seersucker suit is one of the most iconic styles dating from the 1920s and is still a gentleman's best bet when it's hot and sticky.
— Roger Stone
Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
— Nas
As and when I get into a relationship, I'll flaunt her to the world. I'm looking for a soul mate, and in any case, I'm not very much for casual dating. I'm such a simple guy away from this dating-shating business.
— Suresh Raina
When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.
— S. E. Hinton
I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating.
— Roy Blount, Jr.
It's a big responsibility dating me. Because I come with a little bit of baggage, you know?
— Demi Lovato
I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.
— Shaun Cassidy
No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.
— Joyce Brothers
I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.
— John Mayer
I urge you children to be patient with your parents. If they seem to be out of touch on such vital issues as dating, clothing styles, modern music, and use of family cars, listen to them anyway. They have the experience that you lack.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
I've always been intellectually restless, but it is the building part of it that most interests me. It is the constructing of the team that is my favorite part. Anyone who is familiar with the history of the A's franchise, even dating back to Philadelphia, knows that every five or 10 years, you have to tear it apart and rebuild it.
— Billy Beane
The funniest thing is I never understood why actors were so shady about who they're dating. Then I realized the things you say get printed and the people you're involved with read them. That's what's tricky. Nothing goes unnoticed. I don't want to get myself in trouble!
— Emily Meade
Whenever I date a guy, I think, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'
— Rita Rudner
I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he?
— Kristin Davis
Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.
— Mark Hoppus
Dating is fun. It's light: There's courting; there's the interesting, exciting text messaging and flirting. There's no weight. When you start getting into relationships, you really start having to consider each other in your lives, and I think that's really important.
— Denise Vasi
As I've told Tyler, there's not a really easy place between being single and being married for us now. We're just so busy that the logistics of our career make dating impossible. I think I'll find a girl at some point that makes all of the extra work and effort that needs to be put into it worth it. But for right now, I just date my drums.
— Josh Dun
I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!
— Karen Salmansohn
The earliest example known to me of replaced body parts is exemplified by a Mayan skull dating back to 1400 BC. In this skull, false teeth made of stone had been implanted.
— John Gurdon
Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.
— Ben Affleck
Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.
— Christina Aguilera
Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.
— Garry Shandling
Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
— Kim Cattrall
I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.
— Orlando Bloom
I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.
— Pink
The sea hath fish for every man.
— William Camden
You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.
— Anna Held
My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away.
— Jenny McCarthy
I was dating a guy that was a huge wrestling fan and I'm embarrassed to say it now but I used to make fun of him for watching it.
— Torrie Wilson
I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.
— Shia LaBeouf
I don't talk about who I'm dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the media.
— Bridget Fonda
Well, dating has become a sport and not about finding the person you love.
— Rashida Jones
The rich are different. Their wants are very high maintenance. They'll pick eye color and hair color, all the way down to what she does for a living, what school she went to. Their list can be extremely long. But at the end of the day, dating is dating, because they're human beings.
— Patti Stanger
Dating in Los Angeles can be hard, which makes it all the better when you meet a really nice guy.
— Lauren Conrad
I've never tried to pass myself off as anything more than a comedian who wrote a dating book.
— Greg Behrendt
When it comes to dating, I'm straightforward and traditional with a twist.
— Luke Pasqualino
Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
— Gabrielle Giffords
When I was a boy, I took over the shed at the bottom of the garden and displayed fossils and potsherds and coins in it and proudly called it my 'museum'. I charged people to come in, and my most prized possession was a Saracen shield dating from the Crusades.
— Kevin Crossley-Holland
There are some guys you definitely would not want dating your sister - especially hockey players.
— Patrick Kane
With the release of her fourth album, 'Red,' in 2012 and a handful of highly publicized romances, Taylor was criticized by the press and other entertainers for such sinful acts as dating people and writing songs about it, gaining a reputation as boy-crazy and love-ridden.
— Tavi Gevinson
I like the idea of dating, but I'm not dating anyone exclusively, particularly right now. It's hard to be in a relationship unless you're ready to go public with it. So it's a lot easier for me to not be in a relationship. I really don't want that part of my life to be tabloid fodder.
— Cory Monteith
For me, I've learned if I want a very stable, normal relationship, where I'll be like, 'Okay, this is nice, I know what's going to happen in a month,' it's probably better to date outside the industry. But you can't help who you fall for. It's our dating pool.
— Camila Cabello
Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I think she's dating for creativity. So let's get her off the market and put her in dating detox. If she really wants love, she has to stop writing music about them.
— Patti Stanger
I'm doin' something different. I mean, I talk a little bit about race and interracial dating, but it's not the heart of my act. I just try to do what I think is funny; there's no huge message or through line.
— Hannibal Buress
That's the awful thing about dating. Tight underwear. We would all like to be in a big bra and pants and when you are in a secure relationship you can do that.
— Dawn French
You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.
— Priscilla Presley
If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.
— Taylor Swift
I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
— Taylor Swift
I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
— Taylor Swift
You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.
— Taylor Swift
I'm typically single. I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
— Taylor Swift
I'm really critical of my posture, it makes a big difference. And I try to suck my belly in. Everyone should do that whether you're on a red carpet or not. Even if you're just going out to dinner with your boyfriend you should try and suck it in.
— Katy Perry
I just don't like when there's a rumor that says I'm dating someone who is below my standards. But when I got divorced, my ex-wife said I was spending all my time with Lindsay Lohan and Angelina Jolie. I was like, 'Thank you for the big ups!'
— Marilyn Manson
Our countries have been friends dating to the very existence of the United States. France is the only power that has never been at war with the United States.
— Marine Le Pen
'Dating Game' wasn't social commentary, political analysis, Shakespearean-level drama or even blunt-force comedy. It was just the televised equivalent of meeting someone at a bar. But it appealed to our most basic Darwinian instinct: selecting a good mate. You can't go wrong when a show's premise is hard-wired into human DNA.
— Seth Shostak
Ever since the infamous quiz show scandals of the 1950s, the feds had insisted that TV game shows be honest - or that at least they didn't cheat. So as a 'Dating Game' bachelor, I didn't know what I was going to be asked. The other bachelors and I were required to concoct our answers in real time.
— Seth Shostak
I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we're excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle.
— Drew Barrymore
I tried to tell them about the dating process because I'm single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but the whole time he really wanted me!
— Andie MacDowell
I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.
— Chris Pine
The first time I was pregnant, Kanye and I were dating, and I was just being introduced to the world of fashion. I wanted to work with a bunch of different stylists, and when you work with a new stylist, everyone wants to possess your look.
— Kim Kardashian
I started dating JD Samson from Le Tigre, and suddenly I was listening to more up-tempo music and old dance music, like ESG and Gang of Four, and I thought, 'Wow. This is fun.'
— Sia
First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
— Adam McKay
I know some people who've gotten tattoos that they probably shouldn't have, like the name of somebody they were dating, and that never ends well.
— Nikki Sixx
I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.
— George Clooney
Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.
— Barton Gellman
When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.
— Emma Watson
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. If everyday experience hasn't convinced you of this, there's research that will.
— Martha Beck
Golf and dating don't mix.
— Larry David
I was single for a while and dating and... I just didn't know how to do it! I've always been like that: when I was 15, there was a guy I liked, and we made out, and I thought that meant he was my boyfriend.
— Winona Ryder
My parents always looked like they loved being together. That's what I took from them, and that's how my wife and I are. I still feel like we're dating.
— Billy Crystal
I'm not a dating person.
— Kourtney Kardashian
You like someone, you court each other, you get into a relationship. You're answerable to each other. Whereas, the non-answerability of dating, my God, I don't know if I would ever be able to.
— Priyanka Chopra
I was dating girls who were actresses, and that was fun, so I took a playwriting class. But that was short-lived. That was one year. Around that time, I was seeing movies that were making me think in terms of images.
— Richard Linklater
When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, 'This is just dumb.'
— Louis C. K.
I don't really believe in rules, but I do like old-fashioned dating where you don't call the guy until he calls you. I don't think it's like he's got to do this and that's the rule.
— Ashley Tisdale
I give dating advice on a regular basis. It's not that I'm any expert, but it's always nice to share that with your friends.
— Ashley Tisdale
I'm definitely old-school when it comes to dating. I'm not into the 'game' so much. If I like you, I'll confront you and be open about it. Then I expect you to come after me.
— Ashley Tisdale
When you start dating another country star, the first question is, 'When are y'all gonna do a duet?' And what sucks about that is people expect you to do it whether you want to or not.
— Blake Shelton
I hate dates. It becomes a weird auditioning process. And I've never had normal dating.
— Juliette Lewis
Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.
— Madonna Ciccone