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1,797 | 35,368 | Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now. | Ben Stein | home |
1,420 | 37,847 | For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you're doing and keep your imagination open. That's a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age. | Joshua Bell | imagination |
7,965 | 27,093 | The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time. | Rick Perry | future |
4,322 | 15,509 | A lot of people put pressure on themselves and think it will be way too hard for them to live out their dreams. Mentors are there to say, 'Look, it's not that tough. It's not as hard as you think. Here are some guidelines and things I have gone through to get to where I am in my career.' | Joe Jonas | dreams |
974 | 68,001 | I'm thankful for every moment. | Al Green | thankful |
4,900 | 16,018 | I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers. | Arnold Schwarzenegger | education |
6,229 | 44,060 | Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty. | Ron Paul | marriage |
6,434 | 40,916 | Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity. | Jean Henri Fabre | learning |
6,261 | 55,107 | In Pakistan politics is hereditary. | Imran Khan | politics |
4,534 | 53,869 | If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store. | Michael Nutter | pet |
1,784 | 56,968 | The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. | Theodor Adorno | power |
5,203 | 47,879 | Expensive clothes are a waste of money. | Meryl Streep | money |
8,328 | 45,668 | It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. | Aeschylus | men |
10,102 | 70,160 | And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take. | Matthew Fox | trust |
7,660 | 66,769 | The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher. | Anne Sullivan Macy | teacher |
8,283 | 43,570 | And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. | Peter Tosh | love |
5,750 | 44,635 | To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it? | Karl Pilkington | marriage |
10,496 | 57,208 | I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing. | Jack Nicholson | power |
6,652 | 69,689 | The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination. | Alexander Cockburn | travel |
522 | 61,345 | I've had moments where I realize my body isn't going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing. | Cat Osterman | sad |
363 | 7,461 | The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. | Hunter S. Thompson | business |
5,261 | 33,400 | Originally created to serve the poorest and sickest among us, the Medicaid program has grown dramatically but still doesn't include the kind of flexibility that states need to provide better health care for the poor and disadvantaged. | Fred Upton | health |
10,013 | 69,931 | Trust is built with consistency. | Lincoln Chafee | trust |
5,382 | 39,986 | Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. | Deepak Chopra | leadership |
7,231 | 60,665 | I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal. | Gloria Steinem | romantic |
427 | 64,176 | Sports broadcasting is very open now. In the beginning you did encounter more traditional attitudes and get comments. But I'm talking about 12 years ago. | Kirsty Gallacher | sports |
7,090 | 20,119 | Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected. | Christina Milian | family |
2,893 | 19,649 | President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next? | Michelle Malkin | faith |
7,267 | 32,516 | Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. | Walter Savage Landor | happiness |
1,500 | 72,103 | Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail. | John Podhoretz | war |
1,017 | 57,585 | There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top. I'm 20 years old. I was in a relationship with a girl I love for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about ... | Shia LaBeouf | relationship |
8,731 | 9,661 | The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking? | Simon Mainwaring | change |
8,693 | 67,244 | The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over. | Barry Commoner | technology |
3,934 | 48,414 | I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back to bed again. It's stupid to think that way. | Antonio Banderas | morning |
7,175 | 45,765 | No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. | Thomas Carlyle | men |
5,012 | 31,948 | Happiness does not consist in self-love. | Joseph Butler | happiness |
8,305 | 24,329 | I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit. | Eminem | freedom |
2,055 | 66,269 | I've always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it's been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you've given something planetary status it's kind of mean to take it away. | Jared Leto | sympathy |
6,455 | 18,695 | African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans. | Xavier Becerra | failure |
10,200 | 47,733 | Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher. | Alanis Morissette | money |
8,846 | 60,359 | I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for. | Jon Hamm | respect |
1,543 | 44,374 | Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business. | Gwyneth Paltrow | marriage |
11,598 | 12,604 | My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo. | Arabella Weir | dad |
6,403 | 22,841 | We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building. | Sherrod Brown | finance |
11,336 | 21,224 | I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell. | Leona Lewis | famous |
856 | 46,824 | I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again. | Chester Brown | mom |
11,296 | 35,940 | I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse. | Walt Disney | hope |
9,535 | 17,842 | I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge. | Kristin Scott Thomas | experience |
5,229 | 16,389 | Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence. | Joe Baca | education |
712 | 65,410 | My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense. | Helen Gurley Brown | success |
2,451 | 53,368 | May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage. | Yahya Jammeh | peace |
8,514 | 32,948 | In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. | Marcus Tullius Cicero | health |
4,877 | 23,192 | The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.' | Johnny Depp | food |
10,160 | 17,791 | An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words. | Alfred North Whitehead | experience |
2,659 | 27,917 | The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. | Khalil Gibran | god |
1,379 | 73,233 | There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones. | Daniel Dae Kim | wisdom |
5,802 | 52,876 | Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | peace |
8,345 | 35,501 | Don't get me wrong - I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug! | Zac Efron | home |
7,016 | 47,460 | I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors. | Marcus Tullius Cicero | money |
5,245 | 70,298 | I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there.You have to trust the director and react to nothing. | Katie Holmes | trust |
817 | 72,497 | World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into. | Harry Browne | war |
4,347 | 30,024 | The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. | John Adams | government |
8,340 | 36,219 | Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation. | Gertrude Stein | hope |
7,187 | 25,140 | The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries. | Natan Sharansky | freedom |
3,916 | 7,526 | Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country. | Franklin D. Roosevelt | business |
9,824 | 11,039 | Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool. | Jessica Brown Findlay | cool |
4,369 | 20,243 | But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?' | Gertrude Stein | family |
191 | 32,450 | Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. | Margaret Lee Runbeck | happiness |
2,122 | 45,087 | It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research. | Roger Wicker | medical |
5,940 | 57,041 | Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble. | Michael J. Fox | power |
1,829 | 29,375 | There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good. | H. L. Mencken | good |
4,292 | 67,248 | There used to be this country called the Soviet Union it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs. | Tom Clancy | technology |
6,315 | 31,286 | A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself. | Bo Bennett | great |
9,530 | 69,668 | You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write. | Tim Cahill | travel |
9,118 | 61,410 | Touch a scientist and you touch a child. | Ray Bradbury | science |
935 | 66,439 | We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers. | Donna Shalala | teacher |
2,465 | 20,221 | If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.' | Jeff Foxworthy | family |
1,206 | 31,882 | What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. | Leo Buscaglia | happiness |
5,145 | 47,635 | A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer. | Jesse Jackson | money |
11,627 | 30,942 | I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. | John F. Kennedy | great |
8,519 | 22,892 | The first wealth is health. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | fitness |
448 | 51,232 | Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | nature |
11,183 | 53,493 | But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that. | Gerry Adams | peace |
996 | 43,179 | If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours if they don't they never were. | Richard Bach | love |
8,677 | 57,839 | Ah, the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren't either, it's a bond that fascinates and mystifies. So much of the world's favorite music comes out of that relationship. | Rob Sheffield | relationship |
1,914 | 22,863 | The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us. | Arlie Russell Hochschild | finance |
10,333 | 13,421 | One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic. | Joseph Stalin | death |
7,251 | 23,083 | Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul. | Dorothy Day | food |
10,973 | 39,104 | Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. | Henry Ward Beecher | knowledge |
5,627 | 47,749 | Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. | Louisa May Alcott | money |
10,247 | 40,755 | Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm. | Jerry Saltz | learning |
5,576 | 27,161 | I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before. | Harry Connick, Jr. | future |
4,823 | 56,365 | When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one. | Tim Reid | positive |
1,440 | 5,189 | Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain. | Christopher Morley | beauty |
6,817 | 3,897 | Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. | Robert Frost | art |
10,323 | 15,553 | You can't censor people's dreams. | Robyn Hitchcock | dreams |
10,138 | 6,587 | Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues. | Tony Snow | best |
7,058 | 57,078 | Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world. | Lawrence G. Lovasik | power |
90 | 53,215 | Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life. | Stefan Zweig | peace |
2,562 | 53,088 | Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent. | David Herbert Lawrence | peace |
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