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913	42,532	People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.	Summer Altice	life
2,182	42,611	Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.	James M. Barrie	life
11,668	28,944	In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.	Anne Frank	good
7,200	53,726	We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.	Charles Foster Bass	peace
1,661	67,658	Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.	Matt Blunt	technology
149	3,427	I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.	Alexander Jackson Davis	architecture
6,614	11,917	Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.	James Lane Allen	courage
1,236	9,925	If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.	George Osborne	change
2,215	71,699	Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.	Will Rogers	war
6,682	63,508	In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.	Don DeLillo	society
3,734	52,994	Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.	P. J. O'Rourke	peace
11,820	75,529	The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.	Paul Engle	christmas
5,548	53,961	The moment of change is the only poem.	Adrienne Rich	poetry
7,283	70,574	Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.	Benjamin Disraeli	truth
8,469	24,249	Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.	William Lloyd Garrison	freedom
6,644	49,342	I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.	Amanda Seyfried	movies
4,148	18,986	Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.	Burt Rutan	failure
2,290	62,494	Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.	Yoko Ono	smile
10,314	50,626	Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	music
11,404	30,072	We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.	Paul Ryan	government
8,854	50,118	I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.	Alex Winter	movies
4,799	22,303	My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.	Danica McKellar	fear
9,919	61,832	When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.	Jane Goodall	science
4,178	28,173	I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?	Lucius Annaeus Seneca	god
741	37,454	Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.	Walt Disney	imagination
6,548	70,934	As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.	Henry Rollins	truth
6,996	52,289	Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.	Stevie Nicks	parenting
9,087	36,674	I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves.	Taylor Momsen	hope
9,704	38,878	Jealousy is the fear of comparison.	Max Frisch	jealousy
5,830	31,661	A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.	Daisaku Ikeda	great
7,258	594	Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.	Dee Dee Myers	age
8,757	65,490	Success without honor is an unseasoned dish it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.	Joe Paterno	success
2,738	6,766	The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.	Eric Hoffer	best
3,241	34,497	The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.	Queen Elizabeth II	history
11,132	12,202	My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.	Mitt Romney	dad
5,725	60,370	We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.	Neil Patrick Harris	respect
480	58,098	I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.	William E. Simon	relationship
10,772	71,820	Either war is obsolete, or men are.	R. Buckminster Fuller	war
1,122	56,986	For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.	Isabel Allende	power
5,350	737	At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.	Bryan Cranston	age
1,418	50,139	The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.	Hubert H. Humphrey	movingon
4,438	25,583	It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.	James F. Byrnes	friendship
172	30,174	In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.	Mary J. Blige	government
285	37,868	The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.	Bill Walton	imagination
799	41,660	Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.	Cliff Stearns	legal
8,146	72,373	I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.	Brad Pitt	war
8,148	66,824	In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina.	Jim Hunt	teacher
5,467	2,695	I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own.	Louise Mensch	amazing
1,542	19,159	Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.	Steve Jobs	faith
503	17,270	Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.	Pratibha Patil	equality
2,681	64,092	I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.	Benicio Del Toro	sports
11,102	9,934	Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.	James Lovelock	change
2,992	52,969	The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.	Dwight D. Eisenhower	peace
8,044	6,239	Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.	Mahatma Gandhi	best
10,275	16,540	In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.	Mike Rogers	education
10,854	48,900	Well, you know what? The actor still gets up in the morning, if he's still got something to work with, you go out there and you do it. Never quit!	Robert Forster	morning
1,912	15,213	I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.	Dolly Parton	dreams
7,806	47,275	Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.	P. J. O'Rourke	money
3,894	60,824	Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.	Joseph Campbell	sad
4,185	64,695	Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.	Ralph Cudworth	strength
8,192	63,858	You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.	Greg LeMond	sports
1,101	6,209	It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.	Winston Churchill	best
3,059	33,862	The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.	Harry S. Truman	history
2,660	56,820	The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.	George Eliot	power
5,941	57,493	I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.	Jennifer Aniston	relationship
2,648	59,945	To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.	Barbara Boxer	respect
5,310	46,334	I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.	Miley Cyrus	mom
11,030	49,447	I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.	Jennifer Lopez	movies
11,238	52,776	If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.	Napoleon Bonaparte	peace
452	45,206	When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.	George Santayana	men
10,231	4,474	I'm not interested in pop art.	Billy Corgan	art
8,994	71,396	Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.	Joan of Arc	truth
4,671	30,814	I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.	Tim Duncan	graduation
4,732	24,811	Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.	Nancy Pelosi	freedom
10,534	51,430	Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	nature
5,970	19,715	I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.	Peter Jennings	faith
6,420	19,804	Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.	Matthew Simpson	faith
692	74,296	There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.	Julie Burchill	women
2,423	10,891	I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.	Nathan Fillion	cool
5,858	32,245	What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.	Henny Youngman	happiness
895	39,339	I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.	Willie Nelson	knowledge
13	54,575	Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.	A. R. Ammons	poetry
10,764	32,506	Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.	Alexander Payne	happiness
3,276	32,819	It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.	James Smithson	happiness
6,183	21,391	I studied Hitchcock a little bit at University and knew the famous story about the Birds - that he'd tortured Tippi for a day using real birds. I had no idea that it was a five-day onslaught and that it was the tip of an iceberg that carried on through to another film.	Toby Jones	famous
6,720	21,310	My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.	Alexander McCall Smith	famous
22	23,538	Well, food's always the way to anybody's heart, I think, guy or girl.	Josh Hutcherson	food
10,137	51,817	I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.	Lady Gaga	nature
10,503	74,764	You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.	Richard Bach	work
4,204	55,048	Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.	Mason Cooley	politics
9,965	68,040	If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.	Helen Hunt Jackson	thankful
8,533	32,007	It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.	George Bernard Shaw	happiness
6,793	20,658	Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful.	Ayelet Waldman	family
1,130	16,495	The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?	Susan George	education
7,248	55,475	There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.	Jack Kemp	politics
5,999	748	I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.	Elijah Wood	age
5,721	42,228	A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.	Hugh Sidey	life
10,885	8,841	Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I'm sorry I do not have a car.	Eric San	car
9,246	45,647	Men are only as loyal as their options.	Bill Maher	men
9,927	31,604	I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.	Chuck Palahniuk	great

913

42,532

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

Summer Altice

life

2,182

42,611

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

James M. Barrie

life

11,668

28,944

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

Anne Frank

good

7,200

53,726

We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.

Charles Foster Bass

peace

1,661

67,658

Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.

Matt Blunt

technology

149

3,427

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

Alexander Jackson Davis

architecture

6,614

11,917

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

James Lane Allen

courage

1,236

9,925

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.

George Osborne

change

2,215

71,699

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Will Rogers

war

6,682

63,508

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Don DeLillo

society

3,734

52,994

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

P. J. O'Rourke

peace

11,820

75,529

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

Paul Engle

christmas

5,548

53,961

The moment of change is the only poem.

Adrienne Rich

poetry

7,283

70,574

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

truth

8,469

24,249

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

William Lloyd Garrison

freedom

6,644

49,342

I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.

Amanda Seyfried

movies

4,148

18,986

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

Burt Rutan

failure

2,290

62,494

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

Yoko Ono

smile

10,314

50,626

Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

music

11,404

30,072

We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.

Paul Ryan

government

8,854

50,118

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

Alex Winter

movies

4,799

22,303

My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.

Danica McKellar

fear

9,919

61,832

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.

Jane Goodall

science

4,178

28,173

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

god

741

37,454

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

Walt Disney

imagination

6,548

70,934

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

Henry Rollins

truth

6,996

52,289

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

Stevie Nicks

parenting

9,087

36,674

I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves.

Taylor Momsen

hope

9,704

38,878

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Max Frisch

jealousy

5,830

31,661

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

Daisaku Ikeda

great

7,258

594

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

Dee Dee Myers

age

8,757

65,490

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

Joe Paterno

success

2,738

6,766

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

Eric Hoffer

best

3,241

34,497

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Queen Elizabeth II

history

11,132

12,202

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

Mitt Romney

dad

5,725

60,370

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

Neil Patrick Harris

respect

480

58,098

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

William E. Simon

relationship

10,772

71,820

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

war

1,122

56,986

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

Isabel Allende

power

5,350

737

At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.

Bryan Cranston

age

1,418

50,139

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Hubert H. Humphrey

movingon

4,438

25,583

It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.

James F. Byrnes

friendship

172

30,174

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.

Mary J. Blige

government

285

37,868

The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.

Bill Walton

imagination

799

41,660

Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.

Cliff Stearns

legal

8,146

72,373

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

Brad Pitt

war

8,148

66,824

In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina.

Jim Hunt

teacher

5,467

2,695

I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own.

Louise Mensch

amazing

1,542

19,159

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

faith

503

17,270

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

Pratibha Patil

equality

2,681

64,092

I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.

Benicio Del Toro

sports

11,102

9,934

Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.

James Lovelock

change

2,992

52,969

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

peace

8,044

6,239

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

Mahatma Gandhi

best

10,275

16,540

In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.

Mike Rogers

education

10,854

48,900

Well, you know what? The actor still gets up in the morning, if he's still got something to work with, you go out there and you do it. Never quit!

Robert Forster

morning

1,912

15,213

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

Dolly Parton

dreams

7,806

47,275

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

P. J. O'Rourke

money

3,894

60,824

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Joseph Campbell

sad

4,185

64,695

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Ralph Cudworth

strength

8,192

63,858

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

Greg LeMond

sports

1,101

6,209

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Winston Churchill

best

3,059

33,862

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

Harry S. Truman

history

2,660

56,820

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

George Eliot

power

5,941

57,493

I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.

Jennifer Aniston

relationship

2,648

59,945

To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

Barbara Boxer

respect

5,310

46,334

I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.

Miley Cyrus

mom

11,030

49,447

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.

Jennifer Lopez

movies

11,238

52,776

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Napoleon Bonaparte

peace

452

45,206

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.

George Santayana

men

10,231

4,474

I'm not interested in pop art.

Billy Corgan

art

8,994

71,396

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Joan of Arc

truth

4,671

30,814

I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.

Tim Duncan

graduation

4,732

24,811

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

Nancy Pelosi

freedom

10,534

51,430

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

nature

5,970

19,715

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

Peter Jennings

faith

6,420

19,804

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

Matthew Simpson

faith

692

74,296

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.

Julie Burchill

women

2,423

10,891

I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.

Nathan Fillion

cool

5,858

32,245

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

Henny Youngman

happiness

895

39,339

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

Willie Nelson

knowledge

13

54,575

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

A. R. Ammons

poetry

10,764

32,506

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

Alexander Payne

happiness

3,276

32,819

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.

James Smithson

happiness

6,183

21,391

I studied Hitchcock a little bit at University and knew the famous story about the Birds - that he'd tortured Tippi for a day using real birds. I had no idea that it was a five-day onslaught and that it was the tip of an iceberg that carried on through to another film.

Toby Jones

famous

6,720

21,310

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.

Alexander McCall Smith

famous

22

23,538

Well, food's always the way to anybody's heart, I think, guy or girl.

Josh Hutcherson

food

10,137

51,817

I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

Lady Gaga

nature

10,503

74,764

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

work

4,204

55,048

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

Mason Cooley

politics

9,965

68,040

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.

Helen Hunt Jackson

thankful

8,533

32,007

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

George Bernard Shaw

happiness

6,793

20,658

Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful.

Ayelet Waldman

family

1,130

16,495

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

Susan George

education

7,248

55,475

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

Jack Kemp

politics

5,999

748

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.

Elijah Wood

age

5,721

42,228

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

Hugh Sidey

life

10,885

8,841

Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I'm sorry I do not have a car.

Eric San

car

9,246

45,647

Men are only as loyal as their options.

Bill Maher

men

9,927

31,604

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

Chuck Palahniuk

great