top quotations of all time
certainly competition exchanges freedom universal
There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy. Mikhail Gorbachev
block kids eight
There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight. Zoe Lister-Jones
cry
There's nothing I love more than a good cry. Hope Davis
broadway dignity stature
There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity. Sammy Davis, Jr.
tvs fans great-women
There's some great women doing TV. I would love to do a Grey's Anatomy-type show. I'm a big fan. Elizabeth Berkley
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limits world film
There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life. Natalie Portman
lower relationships result
The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs. Edwards Deming
easily help hurt life neuroses purpose
The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex. Leo Buscaglia
education opportunity phones
There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want. Hillary Clinton
war evil goes-on
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. Saul Bellow
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doctors together generations
There are generations who watch Doctor Who together. Sarah Sutton
american-businessman people
There are going to be some people who never want Wal-Mart. That's OK. Lee Scott
american-photographer committed deeply environmental nature
These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message. Galen Rowell
taken media long
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over. Van Morrison
good letters people
There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers. Carlos Slim
Top Life quotes
directors guys people pouring women worked
There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing. Kristen Stewart
two three planets
There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible. Kristi Yamaguchi
hands air guy
That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into. Ed Bradley
may resentment shows
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it. Tacitus
along connection cooperation enhancing evolved feelings physical route seems social special tool touch travel
Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which those subliminal feelings of social connection travel from skin to brain. Leonard Mlodinow
Top Positive quotes
To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice. James Stephens
cook germ good head sit state suddenly writers
To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to be. Things cook away in your head when you're bored, and suddenly one day, you have a book or a germ of a book. Neel Mukherjee
crawl deep forgotten maybe means older powerful
'Tryin' to Get the Feeling' has been a revelation. I'd forgotten how powerful that was. I'd forgotten how deep I can crawl into that one, and maybe because I'm older it means even more. Barry Manilow
appreciate civil respect
'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things. Rami Malek
funniest love people
Ty Burrell could be one of the funniest people on the planet. I'd love to meet him. Brooke Elliott
Top Travel quotes
jobs unions construction-sites
Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it's produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked. Ed Rendell
want morality be-good
Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose. Donald Judd
basketball fun sleep
Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun. Bill Walton
unique one-direction trying
We needed to make a sound that's not gonna fit in with everything else - we wanted to make something that was completely unique and individual to us. We spent a lot of time trying to make a sound that was a One Direction sound. At first it was quite hard to do that, but I'm really happy with the sound. Zayn Malik
play style needs
We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm. Franz Liszt
Top Beauty quotes
accessible claimed million national retailers running specials
We've got over 1 million merchants who have claimed their businesses on Foursquare, running specials and doing other things. What we want to do is take these tools used by the 50-100 national retailers and make them accessible to our 1 million merchants. Then you've got something really powerful. Dennis Crowley
encouragement able want
We want to encourage those who are able to work, no question. Gerhard Schroder
criticism different talent
We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism. Frank A. Clark
collective disasters role society
We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities. Rebecca Solnit
american-musician thin
We have a thin candy shell, I'm surprised you didn't know that. Tre Cool
Top Hope quotes
business railways trying united
We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States. Baba Kalyani
men thinking mirrors
We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man. Richard Le Gallienne
agreeing council difficulty english-author fund great minister terms
We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film. Ann Macbeth
fate second-chance giving
We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take. Gloria Estefan
time fate literature
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. Iris Murdoch
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country past boots
We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past. Louise Slaughter
basis bounds error field human none present religion seen source stands
We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention. Frances Wright
animal construct organize time tools touch
We have these words 'space' and 'time,' but you can't touch them. They're not objects, they're not things, they go forever. Space and time are really tools of animal sense perception, the way we organize and construct information. Robert Lanza
buy cheap farmers food pay piece price takes understand work
We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be cheap to buy real food. But it can be affordable. It's really something that we need to understand. It's the kind of work that it takes to grow food. We don't understand that piece of it. Alice Waters
english-musician generation gig gigs nervous recording
Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally. Roger Daltrey
Top Romantic quotes
surfing musical backgrounds
Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time. Caroline Corr
believed degree empowering evolving government individual inertia rapidly respond
Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis. Michael Burgess
dance two numbers
Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot. Evander Holyfield
writing proportion fling
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us. Emile M. Cioran
believe government want
We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives. Robert Reich
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