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2,980 | 851 | Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit. | Patti Stanger | age |
8,783 | 68,624 | Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked. | Little Richard | time |
8,379 | 65,908 | It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected. | Gerald R. Ford | success |
8,261 | 39,369 | Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one. | Sydney J. Harris | knowledge |
9,212 | 30,381 | If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state? | Tony Campolo | government |
4,452 | 30,080 | I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government. | Arnold Schwarzenegger | government |
7,566 | 51,675 | The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more. | Alexander Pope | nature |
4,722 | 27,190 | As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles. | Adam Sandler | future |
11,517 | 67,679 | At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories... and that requires virtually no technology. | Steven Levitan | technology |
9,489 | 11,993 | It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook. | James Keller | courage |
7,140 | 50,578 | Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it. | Alanis Morissette | music |
1,805 | 40,822 | It's like learning a language you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar. | Fred Frith | learning |
10,676 | 3,170 | All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other. | Albert Brooks | anger |
3,751 | 24,176 | Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness. | Billy Ray Cyrus | forgiveness |
2,989 | 22,475 | He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words. | Bobby Bowden | fear |
10,377 | 55,250 | I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life. | Peter Singer | politics |
1,376 | 62,558 | I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start. | Ina Garten | smile |
8,433 | 41,461 | Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job. | Michael Stuhlbarg | learning |
6,936 | 7,864 | The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?' | Jeff Bezos | business |
11,344 | 6,881 | The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. | Linus Pauling | best |
618 | 39,060 | The only source of knowledge is experience. | Albert Einstein | knowledge |
5,764 | 68,251 | The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game. | Michael Jordan | time |
9,638 | 9,205 | You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority. | Eleanor Roosevelt | change |
2,146 | 38,221 | I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention I've gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me. | Reggie Watts | inspirational |
3,262 | 10,578 | Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s. | Mitch Kapor | computers |
10,830 | 8,474 | Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds. | Barbara Corcoran | car |
1,621 | 12,780 | My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit. | Michael Shannon | dad |
8,128 | 37,686 | I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination. | Eric Bana | imagination |
6,016 | 27,892 | I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. | Martin Luther | god |
9,106 | 63,730 | People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. | Rogers Hornsby | sports |
1,334 | 60,387 | I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air. | Roone Arledge | respect |
6,428 | 22,666 | I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell. | Matthew Fox | fear |
784 | 65,311 | If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. | John D. Rockefeller | success |
9,048 | 46,001 | Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. | Ansel Adams | men |
9,717 | 69,759 | It's a delight to trust somebody so completely. | Jeff Goldblum | trust |
9,711 | 59,873 | It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking. | Eric Davis | respect |
9,410 | 19,545 | Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone. | Paul Simon | faith |
2,838 | 34,645 | There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out. | Jeffrey Kluger | history |
8,546 | 73,340 | Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. | Octavio Paz | wisdom |
2,991 | 1,568 | Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one. | will.i.am | alone |
5,037 | 44,860 | All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. | Isaac Asimov | medical |
3,931 | 67,735 | Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships. | Michael Dell | technology |
1,886 | 70,117 | Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you're not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family. | Victoria Justice | trust |
5,617 | 69,673 | I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier. | Harrison Salisbury | travel |
9,857 | 44,011 | If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable. | George Ade | marriage |
396 | 44,456 | It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage. | Alveda King | marriage |
1,062 | 59,683 | You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others. | Steffi Graf | respect |
1,537 | 25,997 | You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am. | Rush Limbaugh | funny |
3,749 | 30,018 | For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. | Marco Rubio | government |
11,555 | 65,648 | I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success. | Tanya Tucker | success |
2,867 | 12,011 | I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed. | John Slattery | courage |
3,432 | 11,807 | Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. | Lillian Hellman | courage |
2,267 | 16,517 | In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education. | Gael Garcia Bernal | education |
8,664 | 57,442 | Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love. | Mason Cooley | relationship |
3,463 | 39,892 | The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge. | William Bligh | knowledge |
7,060 | 12,652 | My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun. | Wiz Khalifa | dad |
4,220 | 7,441 | The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. | Blaine Lee | business |
6,311 | 15,495 | I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs. | Judy Collins | dreams |
7,834 | 52,738 | We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us. | Francis John McConnell | patriotism |
4,146 | 1,348 | True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves. | Theodor Adorno | alone |
11,250 | 28,305 | The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me. | Thomas Merton | god |
1,688 | 39,141 | A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. | Peter Drucker | knowledge |
5,801 | 39,148 | Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. | Samuel Johnson | knowledge |
9,750 | 14,384 | Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is... | Camille Paglia | design |
8,324 | 25,317 | Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. | Oliver Wendell Holmes | friendship |
2,202 | 14,879 | Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan. | Jack Black | diet |
10,541 | 7,387 | There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second. | Jeff Bezos | business |
1,412 | 45,755 | From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. | Aldous Huxley | men |
9,147 | 26,130 | The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing. | Jo Brand | funny |
8,278 | 3,498 | In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. | Charles Eames | architecture |
1,530 | 60,910 | The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment. | Andy Rooney | sad |
1,480 | 15,924 | No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. | Plato | education |
2,041 | 19,287 | In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come. | Madeleine L'Engle | faith |
11,410 | 69,773 | Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it. | Georges Duhamel | trust |
8,449 | 72,979 | The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure. | William Blake | wisdom |
3,164 | 2,611 | When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen. | Deborah Norville | amazing |
729 | 63,494 | Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. | Mikhail Bakunin | society |
7,567 | 43,679 | However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. | Francois de La Rochefoucauld | love |
9,637 | 161 | Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. | Douglas MacArthur | age |
9,788 | 55,307 | It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy. | Eliot Spitzer | politics |
10,090 | 44,989 | Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. | Potter Stewart | medical |
8,459 | 69,469 | I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive. | Stephen Bayley | travel |
518 | 18,071 | The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. | Samuel Smiles | experience |
123 | 19,974 | There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous. | Lawrence Wright | faith |
7,079 | 1,477 | When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone! | Calvin Klein | alone |
4,634 | 64,147 | Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society. | A. Bartlett Giamatti | sports |
11,198 | 42,747 | You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable. | Deepak Chopra | life |
3,283 | 31,370 | No great thing is created suddenly. | Epictetus | great |
4,580 | 32,895 | Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. | Thomas Jefferson | health |
3,305 | 70,704 | By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. | George Carlin | truth |
3,331 | 58,754 | After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession. | John D. Rockefeller | religion |
4,528 | 43,362 | A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. | Washington Irving | love |
4,733 | 60,917 | And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings. | Stephen King | sad |
8,199 | 57,594 | I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans. | Rachel Weisz | relationship |
7,011 | 69,420 | And, obviously as a, as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I'm looking forward to some new perspectives. | Duane G. Carey | travel |
4,608 | 64,260 | Sports life is very short. | Sergei Bubka | sports |
5,973 | 50,122 | I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies. | Zoe Kazan | movies |
2,400 | 52,717 | Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing. | Janet Suzman | patriotism |
11,674 | 42,291 | Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion. | Eminem | life |
3,055 | 37,911 | In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted. | Joe Shuster | imagination |
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