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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
Iris Murdoch
Eyes
Love
World
I want to keep – this seems so corny – I want to keep growing as an artist.
John Glover
Artist
Want
We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope.
Frank Jordan
Emotions
Hope
Needs
They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn’t their first choice!
Dinah Sheridan
First
Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down – never previewed the movie – we just really winged it.
Joel Hodgson
Ideas
Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
Samuel Goldwyn
Change
Money
Words
Writers
I’m probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people (Romeo and Juliet) took a chance and they did it. We don’t have the balls that Romeo did.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Chance
People
Years
The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
David Hume
Corruption
I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
Al Sharpton
Body
President
School
Vice
Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record.
John Edward Redmond
Ireland
Protest
The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.
Huston Smith
Ethics
Laws
Nature
Now
I don’t snack all the time, but I do sometimes drink l more than I should.
Gerard Depardieu
Time
What position didn’t I play last season?
Aaron Hill
Play
You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You’re one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!
Giuseppe Zangara
Man
I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years.
Julian Bond
State
Years
I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.
Lawrence Welk
Order
Practice
Succeed
There are a lot of lessons to be learned. We can all learn lessons.
David Gill
I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
Nastassja Kinski
Holiday
Love
Music
The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Want
A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Being
Occupation
World
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Maya Angelou
Achievement
I’ve always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.
Harry Seidler
Thought
I’ve been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years.
Danny Glover
Family
Goodwill
Years
The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
Barney Oliver
Space
Stars
Sun
All the world loves a good loser.
Kin Hubbard
World
We’ve built the largest empire in the history of the world. It’s been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It’s only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.
John Perkins
History
Iraq
Military
War
World
World war
Years
Leadership is about doing what you know is right – even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.
Robert. L. Ehrlich
Leadership
Right
Trying
Wrong
Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.
Steve Forbes
Failure
Germany
Mistake
World
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
Steven Brust
Ambition
Man
Old
Waiting
I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn’t want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.
Stevie Nicks
Being
Children
Decision
Want
Writer
Habits are safer than rules; you don’t have to watch them. And you don’t have to keep them either. They keep you.
Frank Crane
Habits
Rules
The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
Andrew Carnegie
Men
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
Paul Cezanne
It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Robert Frost
Earth
Funny
Man
Worry
I have to stay humble. I’m just a normal human with a job that is televised.
Jai Rodriguez
Job
How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
Babe Ruth
Man
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
Richard Dawkins
Life
Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.
Jon Bon Jovi
Life
Nothing
Passion
Want
Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.
Franz Liszt
School
Work
Years
We live in an instant-coffee world. Sometimes real-world solutions take a little longer.
Mike Conaway
World
You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
Fernando Flores
Future
Identity
Living
Present
Risk
I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.
Ridley Scott
Funny
When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn’t developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.
Dennis Ritchie
Advice
In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now we inaugurate a new government on a day that transcends any one individual or any one party.
Matt Blunt
Day
Government
Now
Party
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
Jonathan Edwards
Expression
Faith
Life
Prayer
It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.
Robert Jenkins
Government
Intention
Trouble
The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.
Katherine Dunn
Men
Question
Society
Violence
Women
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson
Conscience
Gain
Needs
People
Tyranny
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Jim Rohn
Goal
Reason
Value
Will
One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don’t, the story is spoiled.
Rex Stout
Effort
Murder
Will
I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing.
Mary-Kate Olsen
Day
Want