c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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6,272	49,920	When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.	James Franco	movies
207	31,553	I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	great
10,754	73,739	If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?	Gloria Steinem	women
7,878	65,006	The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.	Richard J. Daley	strength
9,126	9,730	It's been really fun to see with each album when I change to see the fans of the show emulate my style and with the first record a lot of the kids in the crowd were wearing neck ties like I was and now you'll see a lot of girls with pink hair. It's cool, it's actually really neat.	Avril Lavigne	change
9,582	47,887	Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.	Lionel Messi	money
5,187	50,727	It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.	Ursula K. Le Guin	music
1,927	18,631	Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.	Graham Greene	failure
5,859	12,844	The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.	Dan Wheldon	dad
6,582	394	There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.	J. B. Priestley	age
5,386	12,477	I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.	J. J. Abrams	dad
185	74,781	Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.	Thomas Carlyle	work
1,322	47,511	Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.	Robert H. Schuller	money
8,627	20,796	I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.	Betty White	family
8,873	35,970	To me, we're marketing hope.	Joel Osteen	hope
3,977	3,114	I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.	Kevin Bacon	anger
4,860	39,151	He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.	Samuel Johnson	knowledge
3,506	21,798	We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.	Martin Luther King, Jr.	fear
1,012	4,009	Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.	Salvador Dali	art
6,539	43,310	Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.	Henny Youngman	love
3,780	66,070	Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.	Ethel Waters	success
11,724	10,150	The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.	Tony Campolo	communication
3,529	58,028	I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.	Norman Spinrad	relationship
3,456	51,330	I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.	Georgia O'Keeffe	nature
11,805	4,192	What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.	David Hockney	art
4,507	18,537	Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.	Robert Orben	failure
1,068	19,278	The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.	Thomas Aquinas	faith
7,868	2,304	I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.	Kelly Lynch	amazing
6,082	35,693	After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.	John James Audubon	home
8	26,477	That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all - other people do.	Jonathan Rhys Meyers	funny
2,954	70,883	There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.	Charles Dickens	truth
5,710	13,474	The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.	Joel Osteen	death
3,067	66,374	The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.	Dan Rather	teacher
1,702	21,987	It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.	Margaret Mead	fear
901	8,381	I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.	Kim Kardashian	car
1,674	10,828	Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.	Elia Kazan	cool
6,089	71,371	There is no original truth, only original error.	Gaston Bachelard	truth
1,602	10,048	By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.	George Carlin	communication
5,735	65,893	The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.	Robert Collier	success
8,020	66,540	Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.	Leslie Fiedler	teacher
11,141	22,800	Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.	Vince Cable	finance
8,422	19,241	Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.	Blaise Pascal	faith
6,909	41,038	If you look at the opening of 'Private Ryan,' you are so in the point of view of those guys and there is a whole world swirling all around them. You are learning that geography as they are learning it.	Gary Ross	learning
5,019	67,954	Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.	Thomas Fuller	thankful
2,307	2,825	It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.	Ray Stannard Baker	amazing
6,432	11,492	How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.	Benjamin Franklin	courage
4,308	20,411	I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.	Tom Felton	family
1,934	56,612	Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.	George Bernard Shaw	power
1,164	12,661	I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions.	Jenna Bush	dad
4,170	38,043	I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.	Leslie Banks	imagination
5,061	32,517	I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling, but I'll settle for second best.	Wilbur Smith	happiness
3,231	6,960	The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.	Jim Walsh	best
5,376	33,179	I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.	Jim DeMint	health
4,898	67,789	We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.	Bryan White	teen
1,021	39,565	The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.	Enya	knowledge
9,121	14,189	We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.	Bjorn Lomborg	death
2,727	41,469	I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.	Jaime King	learning
2,831	32,085	The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.	Karl Marx	happiness
8,709	58,900	Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable the principles of it are troublesome.	Benjamin Whichcote	religion
4,077	44,746	I have no useful theories about love and marriage.	Michael Cunningham	marriage
3,033	64,529	I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.	Thomas Paine	strength
7,360	20,140	God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.	Frank Knox	family
9,448	55,815	The most positive men are the most credulous.	Alexander Pope	positive
11,113	73,520	To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.	Angela Davis	women
2,851	57,503	I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.	Dido Armstrong	relationship
1,197	57,119	It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.	Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont	power
5,590	47,621	Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	money
1,949	44,106	Marriage is a great institution.	Elizabeth Taylor	marriage
9,434	11,971	Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.	Ian Smith	courage
9,441	38,779	The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.	Bill Nelson	intelligence
5,348	68,351	The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.	Jimi Hendrix	time
3,578	53,880	You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.	Chris Lowe	pet
2,210	61,640	Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.	Deepak Chopra	science
5,954	48,692	I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all.	Eva Green	morning
1,864	73,214	Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.	Arnold Palmer	wisdom
5,942	51,973	To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.	Bodhidharma	nature
5,589	14,250	Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.	Jeanne Calment	death
2,934	57,530	Justice is never given it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.	A. Philip Randolph	relationship
11,561	51,790	If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.	Edward Hopper	nature
10,083	61,421	Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.	Louis Pasteur	science
2,005	20,336	There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.	David Bowie	family
2,370	27,470	Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?	Emmanuelle Beart	future
228	48,852	I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going back to work.	Don Winslow	morning
4,022	6,343	A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.	B. F. Skinner	best
3,700	65,649	Success should always be just beyond your grasp.	William Shatner	success
6,604	18,049	To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.	Mos Def	experience
10,020	44,369	The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.	Jeffrey Kluger	marriage
2,283	39,204	If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?	Thomas Huxley	knowledge
11,491	6,818	If I look at the message I'm portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.	Kim Kardashian	best
1,676	1,819	No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.	Bernadette Peters	alone
7,490	24,386	Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.	Mitt Romney	freedom
5,321	2,851	There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it.	Laura San Giacomo	amazing
8,299	52,391	Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.	Kin Hubbard	patience
11,761	56,036	Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.	Ron Lewis	positive
6,550	60,773	I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.	Julie Delpy	romantic
5,215	16,778	I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.	Richard Cobden	education
5,605	46,692	I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.	Jenna Bush	mom
3,828	37,386	All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.	Orison Swett Marden	imagination
5,345	8,308	Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.	James Cagney	car
6,517	72,469	In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.	Stanislaw Lec	war

6,272

49,920

When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.

James Franco

movies

207

31,553

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

great

10,754

73,739

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

Gloria Steinem

women

7,878

65,006

The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.

Richard J. Daley

strength

9,126

9,730

It's been really fun to see with each album when I change to see the fans of the show emulate my style and with the first record a lot of the kids in the crowd were wearing neck ties like I was and now you'll see a lot of girls with pink hair. It's cool, it's actually really neat.

Avril Lavigne

change

9,582

47,887

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.

Lionel Messi

money

5,187

50,727

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

Ursula K. Le Guin

music

1,927

18,631

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Graham Greene

failure

5,859

12,844

The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.

Dan Wheldon

dad

6,582

394

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

J. B. Priestley

age

5,386

12,477

I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

J. J. Abrams

dad

185

74,781

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Thomas Carlyle

work

1,322

47,511

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Robert H. Schuller

money

8,627

20,796

I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.

Betty White

family

8,873

35,970

To me, we're marketing hope.

Joel Osteen

hope

3,977

3,114

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

Kevin Bacon

anger

4,860

39,151

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Samuel Johnson

knowledge

3,506

21,798

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

fear

1,012

4,009

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Salvador Dali

art

6,539

43,310

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

Henny Youngman

love

3,780

66,070

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.

Ethel Waters

success

11,724

10,150

The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.

Tony Campolo

communication

3,529

58,028

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

Norman Spinrad

relationship

3,456

51,330

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

Georgia O'Keeffe

nature

11,805

4,192

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

David Hockney

art

4,507

18,537

Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

Robert Orben

failure

1,068

19,278

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

Thomas Aquinas

faith

7,868

2,304

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

Kelly Lynch

amazing

6,082

35,693

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.

John James Audubon

home

8

26,477

That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all - other people do.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

funny

2,954

70,883

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

truth

5,710

13,474

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Joel Osteen

death

3,067

66,374

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.

Dan Rather

teacher

1,702

21,987

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

Margaret Mead

fear

901

8,381

I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.

Kim Kardashian

car

1,674

10,828

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

Elia Kazan

cool

6,089

71,371

There is no original truth, only original error.

Gaston Bachelard

truth

1,602

10,048

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

George Carlin

communication

5,735

65,893

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Robert Collier

success

8,020

66,540

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

Leslie Fiedler

teacher

11,141

22,800

Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.

Vince Cable

finance

8,422

19,241

Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Blaise Pascal

faith

6,909

41,038

If you look at the opening of 'Private Ryan,' you are so in the point of view of those guys and there is a whole world swirling all around them. You are learning that geography as they are learning it.

Gary Ross

learning

5,019

67,954

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

Thomas Fuller

thankful

2,307

2,825

It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.

Ray Stannard Baker

amazing

6,432

11,492

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Benjamin Franklin

courage

4,308

20,411

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.

Tom Felton

family

1,934

56,612

Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

George Bernard Shaw

power

1,164

12,661

I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions.

Jenna Bush

dad

4,170

38,043

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

Leslie Banks

imagination

5,061

32,517

I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling, but I'll settle for second best.

Wilbur Smith

happiness

3,231

6,960

The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.

Jim Walsh

best

5,376

33,179

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.

Jim DeMint

health

4,898

67,789

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

Bryan White

teen

1,021

39,565

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

Enya

knowledge

9,121

14,189

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.

Bjorn Lomborg

death

2,727

41,469

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.

Jaime King

learning

2,831

32,085

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Karl Marx

happiness

8,709

58,900

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable the principles of it are troublesome.

Benjamin Whichcote

religion

4,077

44,746

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

Michael Cunningham

marriage

3,033

64,529

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Paine

strength

7,360

20,140

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

Frank Knox

family

9,448

55,815

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Alexander Pope

positive

11,113

73,520

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

Angela Davis

women

2,851

57,503

I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.

Dido Armstrong

relationship

1,197

57,119

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

power

5,590

47,621

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

money

1,949

44,106

Marriage is a great institution.

Elizabeth Taylor

marriage

9,434

11,971

Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

Ian Smith

courage

9,441

38,779

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.

Bill Nelson

intelligence

5,348

68,351

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

Jimi Hendrix

time

3,578

53,880

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.

Chris Lowe

pet

2,210

61,640

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

Deepak Chopra

science

5,954

48,692

I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all.

Eva Green

morning

1,864

73,214

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Arnold Palmer

wisdom

5,942

51,973

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

Bodhidharma

nature

5,589

14,250

Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Jeanne Calment

death

2,934

57,530

Justice is never given it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

A. Philip Randolph

relationship

11,561

51,790

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

Edward Hopper

nature

10,083

61,421

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Louis Pasteur

science

2,005

20,336

There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

David Bowie

family

2,370

27,470

Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?

Emmanuelle Beart

future

228

48,852

I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going back to work.

Don Winslow

morning

4,022

6,343

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

B. F. Skinner

best

3,700

65,649

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

William Shatner

success

6,604

18,049

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

Mos Def

experience

10,020

44,369

The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.

Jeffrey Kluger

marriage

2,283

39,204

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Thomas Huxley

knowledge

11,491

6,818

If I look at the message I'm portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.

Kim Kardashian

best

1,676

1,819

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

Bernadette Peters

alone

7,490

24,386

Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.

Mitt Romney

freedom

5,321

2,851

There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it.

Laura San Giacomo

amazing

8,299

52,391

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

Kin Hubbard

patience

11,761

56,036

Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.

Ron Lewis

positive

6,550

60,773

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.

Julie Delpy

romantic

5,215

16,778

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.

Richard Cobden

education

5,605

46,692

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.

Jenna Bush

mom

3,828

37,386

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Orison Swett Marden

imagination

5,345

8,308

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

James Cagney

car

6,517

72,469

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

Stanislaw Lec

war