1. As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.
  2. Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.
  3. Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.
  4. Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
  5. God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.
  6. I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.
  7. I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.
  8. I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.
  9. I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.
  10. I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.
  11. I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.
  12. I'm not looking to get away from anything. I like what I've done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.
  13. I've always wanted to do a family movie.
  14. Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.
  15. My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.
  16. Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
  17. SNL is a home. You've got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it's a great time.
  18. Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.
  19. The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.
  20. You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.

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  1. A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
  2. An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
  3. An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
  4. Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
  5. Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
  6. Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
  7. No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
  8. Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
  9. One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
  10. One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
  11. One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
  12. One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
  13. Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
  14. Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
  15. Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
  16. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
  17. Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
  18. That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
  19. The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.
  20. The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.
  21. The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
  22. Wealth flows from energy and ideas.
  23. Women lie about their age men lie about their income.

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  1. A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.
  2. A zebra does not change its spots.
  3. Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
  4. America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.
  5. As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.
  6. Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.
  7. I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.
  8. I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
  9. I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.
  10. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
  11. I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.
  12. If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
  13. Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.
  14. Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
  15. The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.
  16. The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
  17. The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.
  18. While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.
  19. Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

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  1. All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
  2. America wants its respect.
  3. Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
  4. Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.
  5. I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
  6. I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.
  7. I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
  8. I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.
  9. If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.
  10. If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.
  11. I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me I was raised in this society.
  12. In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.
  13. It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.
  14. It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
  15. It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.
  16. My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'
  17. Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
  18. The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
  19. The only time I have problems is when I sleep.
  20. There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.
  21. Thug Life to me is dead.
  22. What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.
  23. With all my fans I got a family again.

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  1. After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.
  2. As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.
  3. First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.
  4. Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.
  5. I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.
  6. I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.
  7. I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.
  8. I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.
  9. I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.
  10. If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.
  11. It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.
  12. I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.
  13. Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.
  14. On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.
  15. The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.
  16. The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.
  17. We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.
  18. We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.
  19. We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.
  20. What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.
  21. Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion.

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  1. Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.
  2. Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.
  3. I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.
  4. I can't stay away from Chinese food. I really love that stuff.
  5. I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.
  6. I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.
  7. I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.
  8. I think guitar is the best thing in the world.
  9. I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.
  10. If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'
  11. I'm proud of the U.S.A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.
  12. I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.
  13. I've had dreams about tricks.
  14. My dad, he's the rocker.
  15. My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together.
  16. My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.
  17. Snowboarding's tough, because you've got to go to the mountains. For me, I love the skateboard season because I get to hangout at home and still be skating. I don't have to travel to Norway or Japan or these crazy places to be snowboarding.
  18. Surfers have the most attitude.
  19. We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them.
  20. What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.
  21. You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.

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  1. A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.
  2. At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.
  3. Biology always beats will power.
  4. Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.
  5. Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.
  6. I get up at the same time every morning.
  7. I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I'm going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don't really want to do that first thing in the morning.
  8. I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.
  9. I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.
  10. In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient.
  11. In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.
  12. It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.
  13. Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.
  14. No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.
  15. The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.
  16. There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest for themselves.
  17. True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.
  18. We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.
  19. We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.
  20. We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.
  21. Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.
  22. You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.
  23. You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well.

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  1. Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
  2. Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
  3. Forgiveness is the final form of love.
  4. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
  5. God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
  6. Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.
  7. I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
  8. If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
  9. If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
  10. Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
  11. Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.
  12. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.
  13. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.
  14. Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
  15. The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
  16. The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
  17. The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
  18. The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
  19. There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
  20. There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

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  1. Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.
  2. I am quite strict as a dad but I don't want to be censorious.
  3. I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances,
  4. I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.
  5. I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.
  6. If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.
  7. I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.
  8. Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does.
  9. Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.
  10. One thing I've very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what's in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty.
  11. Politics is a highly tribal business.
  12. The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.
  13. We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules.
  14. What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.
  15. When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.
  16. You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

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  1. At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
  2. Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
  3. Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
  4. Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
  5. I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
  6. I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
  7. I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
  8. I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
  9. I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.
  10. I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
  11. It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.
  12. It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
  13. Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
  14. My health is very good.
  15. Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
  16. Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
  17. Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
  18. Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
  19. The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
  20. The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
  21. To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
  22. Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
  23. You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
  24. You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

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  1. A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
  2. I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.
  3. I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.
  4. I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.
  5. Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.
  6. In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
  7. It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.
  8. My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results.
  9. One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.
  10. Only the elites despise earning money.
  11. Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
  12. Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
  13. President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.
  14. So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.
  15. Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.
  16. The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
  17. The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.
  18. The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
  19. We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.
  20. We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.
  21. You can't trust anybody with power.

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  1. A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
  2. Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
  3. Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
  4. Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
  5. Genius is eternal patience.
  6. I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
  7. I am still learning.
  8. I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
  9. I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
  10. I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
  11. I live and love in God's peculiar light.
  12. I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
  13. If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
  14. If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
  15. Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
  16. The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
  17. The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
  18. The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
  19. The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
  20. Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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  1. A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
  2. Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
  3. Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.
  4. Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
  5. Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
  6. I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.
  7. I try to act out of faith.
  8. If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.
  9. If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
  10. I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.
  11. In politics, there are no friends.
  12. My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.
  13. Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
  14. No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
  15. Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
  16. Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.
  17. Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
  18. The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
  19. The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
  20. There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.
  21. Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
  22. Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.
  23. We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

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  1. As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
  2. Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
  3. For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.
  4. Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
  5. Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
  6. I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
  7. I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.
  8. I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
  9. If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.
  10. I'm a history nut.
  11. I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
  12. In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
  13. I've crashed my car three times.
  14. Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
  15. More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
  16. Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
  17. The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
  18. We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
  19. When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
  20. When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
  21. When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
  22. Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
  23. You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.

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  1. A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
  2. A minute's success pays the failure of years.
  3. Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
  4. Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
  5. Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
  6. Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
  7. God is the perfect poet.
  8. Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
  9. I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
  10. I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
  11. If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
  12. It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
  13. Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
  14. Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.
  15. Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
  16. So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
  17. Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
  18. The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
  19. Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
  20. What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
  21. What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
  22. White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
  23. Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

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