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I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.

Andy Rooney

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Andy Rooney

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?

Andy Rooney

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

Andy Rooney

The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.

Andy Rooney

Land really is the best art.

Andy Warhol

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

Andy Warhol

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

Andy Warhol

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

Andy Warhol

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

Andy Warhol

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

Andy Warhol

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

Andy Warhol

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Andy Warhol

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

Andy Warhol

I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.

Andy Warhol

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Andy Warhol

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

Andy Warhol

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Andy Warhol

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Andy Warhol

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

Andy Warhol

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

Andy Warhol

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Andy Warhol

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Andy Warhol

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

Andy Warhol

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Andy Warhol

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

Andy Warhol

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

Andy Warhol

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

Andy Williams

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Aneurin Bevan

Politics is a blood sport.

Aneurin Bevan

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Aneurin Bevan

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Aneurin Bevan

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Aneurin Bevan

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

Aneurin Bevan

This is my truth, tell me yours.

Aneurin Bevan

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

Aneurin Bevan

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

Aneurin Bevan

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

Aneurin Bevan

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

Aneurin Bevan

In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!

Angie Dickinson

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

Angie Dickinson

I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.

Angus Wilson

Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Anita Brookner

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Anita Brookner

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

Anita Brookner

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Anita Brookner

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Anita Brookner

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Anita Brookner

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.

Anita Desai

The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.

Anita Ekberg

It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.

Anita Ekberg

I work very hard on my health, and I think about it, of course, like I've never thought before.

Ann Richards

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

Ann Richards

I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in.

Ann Richards

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

Ann Richards

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Ann Richards

Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.

Ann Richards

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

Ann Richards

I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.

Ann Richards

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.

Ann Richards

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

Ann Richards

Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.

Ann Richards

The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake-up call to men and women that drinking and smoking too much not only gives you a bad headache in the morning but can affect your ability to start a family.

Ann Robinson

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

Ann Rule

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

Anna Akhmatova

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

Anna Akhmatova

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

Anna Freud

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.

Anna Freud

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

Anna Freud

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

Anna Freud

How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.

Anna Held

Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.

Anna Held

My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.

Anna Held

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.

Anna Held

Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, It is not good for a woman to live alone.

Anna Held

I do not say anything from jealousy.

Anna Held

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

There are two kinds of artists in this world those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

Anna Katharine Green

Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?

Anna Katharine Green

Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.

Anna Lee

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

Anna Lee

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Anna Louise Strong

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Anna Magnani

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

Anna Neagle

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

Anna Neagle

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

Anna Neagle

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Anna Pavlova

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Anna Pavlova

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

Anna Pavlova

The right to happiness is fundamental.

Anna Pavlova

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

Anna Pavlova

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

Anna Pavlova

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

Anna Sewell

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

Anne Bancroft

My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!

Anne Baxter

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Anne Baxter