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9,224 | 21,038 | Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less. | Robert Wyatt | famous |
4,640 | 31,097 | There is a woman at the begining of all great things. | Alphonse de Lamartine | great |
1,178 | 24,011 | If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings. | Robert Patterson | food |
9,867 | 39,973 | Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses. | Mitt Romney | leadership |
9,773 | 56,324 | I have a lot of younger fans, obviously the choices I make often influence them. But having said that, it's kind of the best motivation in the world to stay positive and make good choices. | James Maslow | positive |
7,485 | 28,735 | A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. | Theodore Roosevelt | good |
10,269 | 69,724 | Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. | Golda Meir | trust |
1,231 | 50,049 | On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave. | Tim Heidecker | movies |
3,508 | 66,808 | I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.' | Miles Teller | teacher |
4,216 | 53,415 | But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friend... | Mitch Daniels | peace |
1,451 | 58,535 | I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. | Lucille Ball | religion |
52 | 72,260 | I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing. | Claude Chabrol | war |
7,320 | 52,874 | We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. | Joseph Roux | peace |
1,179 | 21,020 | I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great. | Ray Charles | famous |
9,077 | 75,812 | Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding. | Gloria Estefan | mothersday |
11,754 | 38,272 | It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. | George Bernard Shaw | intelligence |
2,973 | 75,531 | With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not... | Chris Brown | christmas |
8,780 | 50,093 | Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything. | Vincent Cassel | movies |
7,015 | 34,877 | A heart makes a good home for the friend. | Yunus Emre | home |
10,626 | 4,380 | Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind. | Jacob Bronowski | art |
7,846 | 31,287 | There is no great genius without some touch of madness. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca | great |
2,068 | 61,453 | Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed. | Howard Nemerov | science |
2,343 | 29,965 | This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people. | Mitt Romney | government |
393 | 73,176 | He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. | Evelyn Waugh | wisdom |
8,711 | 1,660 | If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry. | O. Henry | alone |
11,763 | 68,832 | If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. | Sylvia Plath | time |
7,739 | 52,436 | I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | patience |
9,502 | 36,913 | The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood. | Lou Holtz | humor |
8,929 | 69,258 | Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around. | Reba McEntire | travel |
11,630 | 5,222 | Things are beautiful if you love them. | Jean Anouilh | beauty |
9,116 | 5,609 | I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world. | Diane Kruger | beauty |
6,490 | 14,652 | I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains. | Jeff Hawkins | design |
2,528 | 73,540 | A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion. | Barbra Streisand | women |
8,784 | 4,834 | Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company with a great attitude and image. | Carrie Underwood | attitude |
11,029 | 30,349 | Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business. | Erykah Badu | government |
7,358 | 43,852 | A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. | Mignon McLaughlin | marriage |
5,375 | 18,171 | Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience. | Paul Getty | experience |
9,300 | 24,629 | Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men. | Bede Griffiths | freedom |
4,259 | 52,572 | Patience is the best medicine. | John Florio | patience |
9,975 | 67,220 | Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else. | Jeffrey Sachs | technology |
1,904 | 4,882 | What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike? | Ian Mcewan | attitude |
10,052 | 69,837 | It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better. | Benito Mussolini | trust |
1,690 | 31,261 | The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. | Thomas Carlyle | great |
1,428 | 58,194 | The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state. | William Scranton | relationship |
11,377 | 2,434 | I always use my husband's cocoa butter stuff. He has amazing skin! | Idina Menzel | amazing |
6,159 | 19,346 | If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety. | Josh Billings | faith |
3,279 | 22,274 | To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope. | Miguel de Cervantes | fear |
9,912 | 71,414 | All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about. | Nigel Kneale | truth |
2,209 | 38,189 | One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to... | Herman Cain | inspirational |
2,682 | 13,010 | I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family. | Ricky Martin | dad |
588 | 9,214 | Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming. | Jim Rohn | change |
8,600 | 42,114 | Bad things do happen how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. | Walter Anderson | life |
3,962 | 34,366 | American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation. | Camille Paglia | history |
7,707 | 49,603 | Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something. | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | movies |
8,808 | 48,178 | Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps. | Emo Philips | morning |
5,426 | 54,420 | Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. | Carol Ann Duffy | poetry |
3,967 | 38,988 | We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | knowledge |
2,098 | 57,560 | So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel! | Eddie Izzard | relationship |
4,567 | 68,134 | Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well. | Jonathan Carroll | time |
950 | 38,254 | Action is the real measure of intelligence. | Napoleon Hill | intelligence |
8,431 | 36,354 | If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America. | Eldridge Cleaver | hope |
9,960 | 29,581 | There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca | good |
10,682 | 48,494 | I have an orthopedic pillow that's made out of a sponge material. I have a plate in my throat, and I have to be careful or I could end up with a bad neck in the morning. That pillow is a must everywhere I go. | Lee Trevino | morning |
4,212 | 72,511 | Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness. | Jason Mraz | war |
4,880 | 28,786 | However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? | Buddha | good |
7,071 | 40,726 | Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. | Lyndon B. Johnson | learning |
3,904 | 56,681 | The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. | Henry Ward Beecher | power |
11,798 | 38,601 | A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. | Barbara Walters | intelligence |
10,999 | 9,389 | No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. | John Ruskin | change |
9,001 | 9,247 | People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. | Bill Gates | change |
775 | 37,904 | The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place. | Matthew Sweet | imagination |
5,610 | 19,224 | There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | faith |
11,263 | 16,334 | The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education. | Lucy Powell | education |
4,454 | 26,884 | I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam. | King Hussein I | future |
2,815 | 25,411 | Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. | Marcus Tullius Cicero | friendship |
2,519 | 48,856 | Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it. | Florence King | morning |
3,212 | 3,300 | The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. | A. P. Herbert | anniversary |
718 | 68,907 | An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. | Charles Baudelaire | time |
7,875 | 22,966 | And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion. | Amy Irving | fitness |
8,665 | 36,663 | I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed. | Barney Frank | hope |
6,238 | 37,490 | The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. | Samuel Johnson | imagination |
2,904 | 43,031 | Love in its essence is spiritual fire. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca | love |
8,734 | 59,322 | When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may. | Joseph Lancaster | religion |
6,286 | 31,944 | There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. | Denis Diderot | happiness |
3,032 | 744 | We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude. | Jane Fonda | age |
5,028 | 25,190 | There is a bright spot or two for the Spaniards. French toast has become freedom toast on the Air Force One breakfast menu, but the Spanish omelet is still a Spanish omelet. | Suzanne Fields | freedom |
8,356 | 48,193 | Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not. | Ursula K. Le Guin | morning |
7,537 | 51,555 | Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. | Niccolo Machiavelli | nature |
652 | 48,387 | I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals. | William Allen White | morning |
9,911 | 71,072 | The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth. | Ramakrishna | truth |
5,052 | 45,245 | By nature, men love newfangledness. | Geoffrey Chaucer | men |
11,660 | 25,056 | Our work is a scream of freedom. | Christo | freedom |
1,338 | 1,650 | People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown. | Vaslav Nijinsky | alone |
7,889 | 9,447 | Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change. | Doug E. Fresh | change |
10,479 | 59,518 | Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me. | Bertrand Russell | respect |
10,185 | 47,955 | For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money. | Louis C. K. | money |
2,289 | 75,048 | In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. | Thomas Huxley | work |
361 | 60,280 | Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on. | Ford Frick | respect |
7,618 | 17,846 | Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm. | Kim Cattrall | experience |
4,631 | 55,561 | The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith. | Terry Eagleton | politics |
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