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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

What I'm interested in is tone, and the ability to articulate in a very minimal way. That's the sign of a mature musician, and that's what I look for.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

Sir Joshua Reynolds

When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts.

I got in athletics, which gave me self-esteem and made me feel like I had a place in the world; that was the initial attraction with acting for me.

Ed Harris

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Henry David Thoreau

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn't make any difference how many dollars you have-at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite.

Michael Nesmith

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Andre Gide

Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods.

[Advise] the ruler to govern the state as one cooks a small fish -- that is, don't turn it so often in the pan that it disintegrates.

Lao Tzu

Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.

Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

Marilyn vos Savant

If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling.

Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities.

Edgar Allan Poe

I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.

Ahmed Ben Bella

In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to another.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Charles Caleb Colton

You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!

GARGOYLE, n. A rain-spout projecting from the eaves of mediaeval buildings, commonly fashioned into a grotesque caricature of some personal enemy of the architect or owner of the building. This was especially the case in churches and ecclesiastical structures generally, in which the gargoyles presented a perfect rogues' gallery of local heretics and controversialists. Sometimes when a new dean and chapter were installed the old gargoyles were removed and others substituted having a closer relation to the private animosities of the new incumbents.

I am appalled at the terrible acts of biological terrorism that have caused death, disease and havoc in this great country starting last fall.

It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.

Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.

Gil Gerard

But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Miguel de Unamuno

The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss.

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.

No, we didn't shoot... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such.

Val Guest

There is not a man among them whose particular aim I am not able to ascertain, and from what motive they have entered into the lists of opposition.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

Sting

I didn't study; I live.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Feeling better is not actually being better.

In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a "dictator" substitutes himself for the central committee.

In terms of broadcasting, you have to make decisions about where you want to spend your time.

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

Nathaniel Emmons

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.

Mark Foley

It just makes everything more pleasurable when you've got someone that emotionally is there to rely on.

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

Theodore Roosevelt

Well, in the 1990 reauthorization legislation, there was a phrase that said we do not fund obscenity as defined by a court of law.

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

Dario Fo

I meet so many people, but I don't know anybody.

I'm a common-sense kind of guy.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process.

Every time we remember to say "thank you," we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

Anne Rice

The A's are held to the standard of the Yankees in a funny kind of way. That if they don't win the World Series it is regarded as a failure.

I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.' 'I'm homeless, the government must house me.' They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation

Margaret Thatcher

Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.

Bryant H. McGill

Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world.

I'm not sure I can say it's my favourite but what certainly came to mind when you asked me the question was the computer that we put together for Elementary, Dear Data, a hologram episode.

Richard D. James

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Calvin Coolidge

We've got to take care of the poor.

Bob Riley

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

Barbara Kingsolver

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

I've just got into the convention circuit in the last couple of years and it's great to see all these people who are still interested in the show. It's so gratifying to hear that so many people enjoyed the work that Erin and I have done.

Gil Gerard

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

George Farquhar

The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Eleanor Roosevelt

My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.

Janet Reno

I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.

Orville Redenbacher

If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family.

It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.

Bruce Springsteen

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

Edward Abbey (Vox Clamans in Deserto)

Not everybody has to sing the melody.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

Milton Friedman

The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

I have been to New York before, but when I was quite young and filming my first ever commercial which we filmed in Time Square which was cool.

Tom Felton

I am trying to grow rhododendron where they have never grown before. I am dreadfully scientific on soils and so on.

I don't feel like I even need to contribute.

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

Swedish Proverb

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work.

John L. Phillips

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

Sophocles

The thing about us is, we're very eclectic; we end up with a lot of songs that have very different styles, very different stylistically.

I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.

Among all the myriad forms of matter and of life on the earth, or as far as we know in the universe, man is unique.

George G. Simpson

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.