c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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2,270	56,076	Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.	Charles Rangel	positive
923	70,798	The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.	Franklin D. Roosevelt	truth
10,742	70,267	I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them it's to push them.	Ricky Schroder	trust
2,722	25,582	That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.	Randy West	friendship
8,793	74,490	To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.	Pearl S. Buck	work
1,616	39,979	Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.	Jim Rohn	leadership
9,714	58,371	When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.	DeForest Soaries	relationship
2,235	49,903	John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.	Carter Burwell	movies
8,087	47,130	Anyone who knows me knows my mom, Dorcina, has to sign off on any decision and that she will play a major part in any decision.	Nerlens Noel	mom
4,310	45,202	Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.	Charles Spurgeon	men
11,403	26,491	If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.	Ron Livingston	funny
9,168	6,831	A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.	Stefan Banach	best
4,628	47,790	Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.	Suze Orman	money
5,807	58,977	The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.	Harvey Milk	religion
2,015	45,593	I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.	Charles V	men
8,889	75,553	Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'	Sloane Crosley	christmas
7,720	13,953	Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.	Mariah Carey	death
4,962	73,275	The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.	Esther Williams	wisdom
9,955	57,322	The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.	James Lovelock	power
102	3,850	Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.	C. S. Lewis	art
1,945	3,128	I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.	Rachel Maddow	anger
11,109	30,657	Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.	Tim Robbins	government
3,271	24,175	Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.	Jewel	forgiveness
8,743	5,305	Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.	Adlai E. Stevenson	beauty
11,450	7,258	I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like, it would be really hilarious if I sold it on eBay. But I can't, that's just too creepy. I don't think I can go there.	Evan Rachel Wood	birthday
8,188	37,554	True change takes place in the imagination.	Thomas Moore	imagination
9,966	36,878	The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.	Peter De Vries	humor
1,994	36,792	I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology.	Dan Lipinski	hope
3,547	74,822	Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.	Orison Swett Marden	work
4,523	52,258	Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.	John Boehner	parenting
8,260	34,602	I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.	Shigeru Miyamoto	history
6,840	47,105	Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows.	Lindsay Ellingson	mom
4,832	643	We tried not to age, but time had its rage.	Patti Smith	age
9,632	68,109	I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.	Golda Meir	time
9,465	20,733	Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!	Oscar Pistorius	family
1,247	4,895	I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.	Jeffrey Archer	attitude
9,547	67,936	Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.	John Wooden	thankful
10,939	68,759	I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.	Anne Frank	time
2,802	59,558	The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.	Carl Sandburg	respect
1,123	67,671	And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.	Ginni Rometty	technology
9,785	41,146	A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.	Bob Edwards	learning
2,635	62,218	I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.	William Hurt	science
1,595	64,609	You're blessed if you have the strength to work.	Mahalia Jackson	strength
8,091	65,070	God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.	George A. Smith	strength
1,920	35,363	America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.	Jane Addams	home
10,313	10,760	And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.	Elizabeth Gilbert	cool
3,707	25,845	Polite conversation is rarely either.	Fran Lebowitz	funny
3,329	73,950	While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.	Andrea Dworkin	women
5,668	10,210	This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.	Robert Delaunay	communication
3,622	20,342	I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.	Isabel Allende	family
4,852	35,582	I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.	Hakeem Olajuwon	home
11,026	6,025	In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!	Joel McHale	beauty
1,475	54,355	I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country.	Will Cuppy	poetry
4,542	15,149	No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.	W. Clement Stone	dreams
2,657	58,007	The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.	James Bovard	relationship
6,348	2,649	It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive.	Peter Hook	amazing
9,844	12,708	My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.	Dylan McDermott	dad
337	20,009	If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.	Abdul Kalam	family
4,616	14,247	I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard.	Luke Scott	death
9,588	66,255	It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.	Johnny Rotten	sympathy
5,838	32,274	Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.	Theodor Adorno	happiness
9,092	40,753	English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.	Vivien Leigh	learning
7,918	55,726	Politics is a people business. I like people.	Laura Bush	politics
3,665	15,023	The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.	Paul Valery	dreams
9,496	10,300	We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies navigate the equipment application process.	Henry Cuellar	communication
496	7,749	No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.	Marco Rubio	business
9,641	26,648	Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.	Bob Marley	future
8,414	56,530	Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.	Ronald Reagan	power
4,871	62,153	If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do.	Marvin Minsky	science
1,745	22,062	To good and true love fear is forever affixed.	Francois Rabelais	fear
4,446	73,531	Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.	Dick Van Dyke	women
823	1,490	I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.	Christina Ricci	alone
2,281	38,288	My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.	Helen Gurley Brown	intelligence
11,563	63,451	Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.	Karl Rove	society
802	17,720	In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.	Chrissie Hynde	experience
10,505	74,559	All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.	Brian Tracy	work
9,882	34,997	There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.	Anthony Edwards	home
10,470	59,298	I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.	Youssou N'Dour	religion
2,007	57,221	Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.	Maggie Kuhn	power
8,239	67,477	Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It's a marvelous opportunity. We'll keep developing products.	Jay Chiat	technology
3,715	42,237	If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.	Marcus Garvey	life
7,545	56,871	Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.	Irving Berlin	power
1,181	9,691	I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.	Helena Bonham Carter	change
6,337	8,098	Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.	David Brainerd	business
2,115	54,476	There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.	Allen Tate	poetry
5,362	6,545	The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?	Bette Davis	best
10,543	18,407	I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.	Anne Baxter	failure
4,790	15,547	People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.	Henry Reed	dreams
8,521	67,385	Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.	Esther Dyson	technology
10,135	14,778	I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.	Totie Fields	diet
447	37,067	When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.	Allen Klein	humor
7,575	58,795	Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.	Ernie Harwell	religion
9,366	32,706	I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.	Ethan Suplee	happiness
11,755	49,320	I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.	Joan Jett	movies
2,775	60,889	Sadness is also a kind of defence.	Ivo Andric	sad
5,063	42,865	We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.	Orson Welles	love
4,293	32,337	From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.	Dennis Prager	happiness
7,963	49,015	Talking from morning to night about sex has helped my skiing, because I talk about movement, about looking good, about taking risks.	Ruth Westheimer	morning
8,564	14,514	I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.	Tim Gunn	design
7,784	5,327	That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.	Denis Waitley	beauty

2,270

56,076

Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.

Charles Rangel

positive

923

70,798

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

truth

10,742

70,267

I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them it's to push them.

Ricky Schroder

trust

2,722

25,582

That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.

Randy West

friendship

8,793

74,490

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Pearl S. Buck

work

1,616

39,979

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Jim Rohn

leadership

9,714

58,371

When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.

DeForest Soaries

relationship

2,235

49,903

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

Carter Burwell

movies

8,087

47,130

Anyone who knows me knows my mom, Dorcina, has to sign off on any decision and that she will play a major part in any decision.

Nerlens Noel

mom

4,310

45,202

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

Charles Spurgeon

men

11,403

26,491

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

Ron Livingston

funny

9,168

6,831

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.

Stefan Banach

best

4,628

47,790

Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.

Suze Orman

money

5,807

58,977

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.

Harvey Milk

religion

2,015

45,593

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

Charles V

men

8,889

75,553

Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'

Sloane Crosley

christmas

7,720

13,953

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

Mariah Carey

death

4,962

73,275

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

Esther Williams

wisdom

9,955

57,322

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

James Lovelock

power

102

3,850

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

C. S. Lewis

art

1,945

3,128

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

Rachel Maddow

anger

11,109

30,657

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

Tim Robbins

government

3,271

24,175

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

Jewel

forgiveness

8,743

5,305

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

Adlai E. Stevenson

beauty

11,450

7,258

I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like, it would be really hilarious if I sold it on eBay. But I can't, that's just too creepy. I don't think I can go there.

Evan Rachel Wood

birthday

8,188

37,554

True change takes place in the imagination.

Thomas Moore

imagination

9,966

36,878

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

Peter De Vries

humor

1,994

36,792

I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology.

Dan Lipinski

hope

3,547

74,822

Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.

Orison Swett Marden

work

4,523

52,258

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

John Boehner

parenting

8,260

34,602

I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.

Shigeru Miyamoto

history

6,840

47,105

Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows.

Lindsay Ellingson

mom

4,832

643

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

Patti Smith

age

9,632

68,109

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Golda Meir

time

9,465

20,733

Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!

Oscar Pistorius

family

1,247

4,895

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

Jeffrey Archer

attitude

9,547

67,936

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

John Wooden

thankful

10,939

68,759

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Anne Frank

time

2,802

59,558

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

Carl Sandburg

respect

1,123

67,671

And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.

Ginni Rometty

technology

9,785

41,146

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Bob Edwards

learning

2,635

62,218

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

William Hurt

science

1,595

64,609

You're blessed if you have the strength to work.

Mahalia Jackson

strength

8,091

65,070

God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.

George A. Smith

strength

1,920

35,363

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Jane Addams

home

10,313

10,760

And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.

Elizabeth Gilbert

cool

3,707

25,845

Polite conversation is rarely either.

Fran Lebowitz

funny

3,329

73,950

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Andrea Dworkin

women

5,668

10,210

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.

Robert Delaunay

communication

3,622

20,342

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

Isabel Allende

family

4,852

35,582

I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

Hakeem Olajuwon

home

11,026

6,025

In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!

Joel McHale

beauty

1,475

54,355

I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country.

Will Cuppy

poetry

4,542

15,149

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

W. Clement Stone

dreams

2,657

58,007

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

James Bovard

relationship

6,348

2,649

It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive.

Peter Hook

amazing

9,844

12,708

My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.

Dylan McDermott

dad

337

20,009

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Abdul Kalam

family

4,616

14,247

I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard.

Luke Scott

death

9,588

66,255

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

Johnny Rotten

sympathy

5,838

32,274

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

Theodor Adorno

happiness

9,092

40,753

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

Vivien Leigh

learning

7,918

55,726

Politics is a people business. I like people.

Laura Bush

politics

3,665

15,023

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Paul Valery

dreams

9,496

10,300

We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies navigate the equipment application process.

Henry Cuellar

communication

496

7,749

No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.

Marco Rubio

business

9,641

26,648

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

Bob Marley

future

8,414

56,530

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Ronald Reagan

power

4,871

62,153

If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do.

Marvin Minsky

science

1,745

22,062

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

Francois Rabelais

fear

4,446

73,531

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Dick Van Dyke

women

823

1,490

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

Christina Ricci

alone

2,281

38,288

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Helen Gurley Brown

intelligence

11,563

63,451

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

Karl Rove

society

802

17,720

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

Chrissie Hynde

experience

10,505

74,559

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

work

9,882

34,997

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

Anthony Edwards

home

10,470

59,298

I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

Youssou N'Dour

religion

2,007

57,221

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

Maggie Kuhn

power

8,239

67,477

Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It's a marvelous opportunity. We'll keep developing products.

Jay Chiat

technology

3,715

42,237

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Marcus Garvey

life

7,545

56,871

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

Irving Berlin

power

1,181

9,691

I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.

Helena Bonham Carter

change

6,337

8,098

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

David Brainerd

business

2,115

54,476

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

Allen Tate

poetry

5,362

6,545

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Bette Davis

best

10,543

18,407

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Anne Baxter

failure

4,790

15,547

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

Henry Reed

dreams

8,521

67,385

Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.

Esther Dyson

technology

10,135

14,778

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

Totie Fields

diet

447

37,067

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

Allen Klein

humor

7,575

58,795

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

Ernie Harwell

religion

9,366

32,706

I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.

Ethan Suplee

happiness

11,755

49,320

I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.

Joan Jett

movies

2,775

60,889

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

Ivo Andric

sad

5,063

42,865

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Orson Welles

love

4,293

32,337

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

Dennis Prager

happiness

7,963

49,015

Talking from morning to night about sex has helped my skiing, because I talk about movement, about looking good, about taking risks.

Ruth Westheimer

morning

8,564

14,514

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

Tim Gunn

design

7,784

5,327

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Denis Waitley

beauty