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Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.
Renee Zellweger
Being
Film
Money
You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
Ed Markey
Months
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
Andy Rooney
America
Computer
First
Giving
Purpose
Sense
Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn’t have any innocent bystanders.
Chris Rock
Control
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
Solomon Short
War
We can’t be guided – because we’re so far from it. We’ve so destroyed it. We’re so far from that that we can’t use it. I mean, Jim Bakker heard from God. What a good job he did!
Susan Powter
God
Job
We appropriately compared the lifestyle to that of drug addiction and alcoholism – lifestyles that one would be encouraged to seek help to leave – never encouraged to stay in.
Stephen Bennett
Addiction
Help
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de Montaigne
Order
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
Heinrich Heine
Evil
Fact
Money
World
I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.
Jock Sturges
Denial
Public
Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question – I struggle with it morally.
Charlize Theron
Countries
Crime
Murder
Punishment
Question
Sense
states
Struggle
Men tend to be selfish.
Caprice Bourret
Men
If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it’s all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part.
John Eaton
Music
Reason
I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.
Larry Holmes
I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.
Liz Carpenter
Life
Work
The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.
Robert Musil
Difference
Fact
They don’t want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.
Roy Moore
Authority
State
Want
I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.
Josh McDowell
Father
Hatred
Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.
Jet Li
Famous
Movies
Philosophy
The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.
Henri Pirenne
State
I’m the youngest of six children; both of my sisters are housewives and they each have four kids.
Roma Downey
Children
Kids
Sisters
I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
Carla Bley
We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe.
Joe Lieberman
Economy
Freedom
Military
Opportunity
Values
World
If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
Barry Mann
Inspiration
Song
Time
Today
I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.
Linus Torvalds
Linux
Pretty
Worry
A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
Johann Georg Zimmermann
sayings
We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.
Robert Iger
Company
Disney
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
Government
Spirit
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Henry B. Adams
Man
Woman
Wrong
Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.
Desmond Morris
Death
Life
Visit
I’m ambitious but I’m not particularly competitive. I’ll try to get roles, as I think it’s healthy to go for things, but… I think there’s too much competition between women already. It’s important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.
Rose Byrne
Competition
Solidarity
Support
Women
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance… poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
Ezra Pound
Dance
Music
Poetry
If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don’t want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
David Livingstone
Men
Road
Want
Will
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
Warren G. Bennis
Leader
Manager
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
Pierre Corneille
Crime
Shame
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth
Words
We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane.
Greg Anderson
Cancer
Family
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Khalil Gibran
Affection
Art
Ignorance
Knowledge
Silence
Elevate those guns a little lower.
Andrew Jackson
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
David C. McCullough
History
Navigation
I’m not politically motivated. I used to be – passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.
Guy Ritchie
Now
Rest
Right
We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.
Corrine Brown
Aviation
Money
Needs
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
Margaret Mead
Man
Time
Woman
I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different.
Glenn Hoddle
Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk.
Kenneth Grahame
Company
Moon
Stars
Talk
All the bands get along really well. That’s one of the biggest things on a tour. It’s great to get all these cool bands together, but if they don’t get along it sucks.
Brandon Thomas
I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research.
Bob Ehrlich
Research
Support
Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
Beverly Sills
Love
Spiritual
There’s an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.
Peter Noone
Being
Idea
Songs
Sunset
Tongue
Walking
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
Bertolt Brecht
People
Trouble
A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There’s nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I’ve done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom – it’s gone.
Edward R. Murrow
Nothing
Tomorrow
Yesterday