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196 | 49,481 | I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you. | Jason Reitman | movies |
4,990 | 70,484 | I'm not going to be in a relationship that I don't fully trust. | Jake Pavelka | trust |
9,653 | 34,347 | I want to write a book which is the history of comedy. | John Cleese | history |
5,305 | 34,238 | History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. | W. H. Auden | history |
9,666 | 2,104 | I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking people love him. Same with Gene Hackman. | Shia LaBeouf | amazing |
9,130 | 10,252 | Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment. | Susan Wojcicki | communication |
9,907 | 48,818 | I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place. | Barry McGuire | morning |
4,794 | 35,058 | I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon. | Ida B. Wells | home |
10,638 | 4,932 | What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice the laws are still on the books. | Christopher Isherwood | attitude |
3,491 | 75,525 | The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year. | Johnny Vegas | christmas |
2,159 | 71,667 | War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. | Friedrich Nietzsche | war |
4,341 | 45,190 | Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up. | Bette Davis | men |
10,575 | 63,711 | Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims, including Pakistanis. I understand that that was provocative and complicated for Pakistan, but only if you accept the idea that he was an acceptable member of Pakistani soci... | Sebastian Junger | society |
10,349 | 14,693 | The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants. | Michael Dell | design |
6,772 | 28,827 | And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. | William Shakespeare | good |
9,253 | 18,521 | The only real failure in life is one not learned from. | Anthony J. D'Angelo | failure |
4,353 | 4,906 | Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it. | Waylon Jennings | attitude |
6,137 | 1,892 | I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent. | Susan Rice | alone |
3,587 | 12,563 | If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up. | Mike Singletary | dad |
3,470 | 32,238 | When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. | Sophocles | happiness |
3,525 | 69,060 | And know that I am with you always yes, to the end of time. | Jesus Christ | time |
19 | 53,448 | I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged. | Maurice Strong | peace |
5,460 | 64,666 | Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | strength |
6,841 | 67,760 | Technology makes the world a new place. | Shoshana Zuboff | technology |
8,134 | 43,288 | Respect is what we owe love, what we give. | Philip James Bailey | love |
3,239 | 19,891 | The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this. | Chelsea Clinton | faith |
3,428 | 61,796 | The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing. | Edward Tufte | science |
6,962 | 41,183 | I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements. | Vanessa Carlton | learning |
8,217 | 12,075 | People don't follow titles, they follow courage. | William Wells Brown | courage |
9,646 | 59,682 | But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated. | Anna Quindlen | respect |
3,297 | 45,044 | I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries. | John Cameron | medical |
1,779 | 6,326 | Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. | Donald Trump | best |
8,441 | 43,749 | Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will. | Dan Millman | love |
10,713 | 72,765 | Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. | George S. Patton | wisdom |
7,993 | 24,562 | The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. | Desmond Tutu | freedom |
1,024 | 54,464 | Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. | Simon Callow | poetry |
6,495 | 50,295 | Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music. | Bobby Vinton | music |
11,076 | 34,036 | History should be written as philosophy. | Voltaire | history |
5,781 | 6,717 | Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process. | Stephen King | best |
6,320 | 17,380 | It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion. | Albert Einstein | experience |
10,466 | 7,674 | Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries. | Doug Coupland | business |
11,170 | 64,675 | Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them? | Anna Quindlen | strength |
3,128 | 13,792 | I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue. | Paula Deen | death |
9,841 | 28,510 | And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods. | Samuel Butler | god |
7,098 | 15,356 | One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real. | Brandy Norwood | dreams |
10,812 | 1,211 | Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time. | Denis Waitley | alone |
8,630 | 4,574 | Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology. | Catherine Deneuve | art |
10,561 | 42,959 | Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. | Plato | love |
6,359 | 45,601 | Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do. | Katharine Hepburn | men |
8,434 | 42,655 | I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun. | Thomas A. Edison | life |
8,182 | 31,408 | The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws. | Andrew Jackson | great |
27 | 3,907 | Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. | Pablo Picasso | art |
4,013 | 35,136 | I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home. | Robert Plant | home |
5,166 | 8,594 | The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know. | Alain Prost | car |
11,044 | 62,096 | In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. | Mary McCarthy | science |
6,305 | 11,519 | Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. | Samuel Johnson | courage |
309 | 47,142 | When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is. | Oscar Wilde | money |
4,312 | 47,558 | We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again. | Marco Rubio | money |
6,050 | 53,491 | I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act. | Yitzhak Rabin | peace |
8,839 | 43,264 | Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. | William Shakespeare | love |
11,713 | 39,224 | And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face. | Venerable Bede | knowledge |
10,060 | 62,812 | I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. | Oscar Wilde | society |
7,786 | 70,345 | I guess because it feels more open, but I think being married is way sexier, because it's really like your soul partner in a permanent fashion, and then you strive for it to be something permanent, and that type of commitment and trust, if you can achieve it, is so good for the soul. | Leelee Sobieski | trust |
4,620 | 42,825 | I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes. | Henry Rollins | life |
386 | 56,638 | The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. | Charlie Chaplin | power |
5,264 | 32,010 | They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. | Confucius | happiness |
9,861 | 15,598 | Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. | Gail Godwin | dreams |
9,124 | 19,607 | True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty. | Eric Liu | faith |
9,061 | 33,026 | According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen. | Luis Gutierrez | health |
5,411 | 69,091 | If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. | Cesare Pavese | travel |
1,243 | 73,344 | We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. | Stephen Vincent Benet | wisdom |
6,625 | 32,267 | Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | happiness |
9,213 | 334 | Old age and the passage of time teach all things. | Sophocles | age |
8,831 | 45,850 | It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. | Thomas Carlyle | men |
6,785 | 18,721 | Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. | Mark Skousen | failure |
1,248 | 34,140 | The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. | Samuel Butler | history |
4,956 | 17,231 | Feudal societies don't create great cinema we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full o... | Brian Cox | equality |
3,224 | 20,620 | Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public. | Rod Stewart | family |
11,144 | 19,956 | Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person. | Walter Kaufmann | faith |
7,702 | 34,902 | If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough. | Audrey Hepburn | home |
3,324 | 47,871 | When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track. | Buck Baker | money |
6,860 | 5,411 | Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. | Laurence J. Peter | beauty |
9,479 | 23,202 | Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. | Bill Gates | food |
2,461 | 49,863 | I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi something with very important subject matters. | Ethan Hawke | movies |
2,803 | 14,525 | I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design. | Trent Reznor | design |
6,062 | 70,602 | My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring. | Prince William | truth |
8,160 | 23,249 | I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy. | John Salazar | food |
9,457 | 11,120 | Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Juilliard. I wanted to be an actor. So, if I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that. | Anthony Mackie | cool |
6,618 | 8,148 | Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street. | John Sununu | business |
8,394 | 68,014 | I am incredibly thankful for the strong support I have from my peers in the industry and of course my amazing fans. | Miranda Lambert | thankful |
5,444 | 75,798 | God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. | Rudyard Kipling | mothersday |
144 | 49,669 | I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do. | Kate Beckinsale | movies |
10,571 | 1,799 | Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong. | Mira Nair | alone |
7,829 | 50,801 | It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas. | David Byrne | music |
5,593 | 32,848 | A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. | Hippocrates | health |
1,536 | 38,269 | Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. | Julius Charles Hare | intelligence |
5,442 | 71,044 | It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases. | George Santayana | truth |
10,482 | 22,239 | I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing. | David Byrne | fear |
5,640 | 8,376 | It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on. | Barbara Bush | car |
10,685 | 61,341 | The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich. | Fran Tarkenton | sad |
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