 One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. Author: A. A. Milne
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| The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. Author: A. A. Milne
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| The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs. Author: A. B. Yehoshua
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| We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory. Author: A. B. Yehoshua
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| One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. Author: A. C. Benson
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| But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking. Author: A. J. McLean
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| I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world. Author: A. J. McLean
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| I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character. Author: Aaliyah
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| Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. Author: Aaliyah
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| We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news. Author: Aaron Brown
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| The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, "No." Author: Aaron Copland
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| But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world. Author: Aaron Klug
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| Movie making is the slowest business on earth next to fossil manufacture. Author: Aaron Latham
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| And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it. Author: Aaron McGruder
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| If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying. Author: Aaron Neville
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| We lived together as kids, and now we're taking care of each other as men. Author: Aaron Neville
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| There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act. Author: Aaron Spelling
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| Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them. Author: Aaron Spelling
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| I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music. Author: Abbey Lincoln
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| Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness. Author: Abdul Kalam
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| I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world. Author: Abigail Adams
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| Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. Author: Abraham Maslow
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| When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail. Author: Abraham Maslow
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| Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit. Author: Abu Bakar Bashir
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| O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out. Author: Abu Bakr
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| As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking. Author: Ace Frehley
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| I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late. Author: Ace Frehley
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| One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease. Author: Ace Frehley
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| We're bigger now than we were in the late 70s when we were peaking. Author: Ace Frehley
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| Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that. Author: Ad Reinhardt
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| An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful. Author: Ada Louise Huxtable
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| I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case. Author: Adam Arkin
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| I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable. Author: Adam Baldwin
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| The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it. Author: Adam Baldwin
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| There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care. Author: Adam Brody
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| When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons. Author: Adam Clymer
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| My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it. Author: Adam Duritz
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| I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before! Author: Adam Faith
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| You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff. Author: Adam Garcia
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| We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song. Author: Adam Jones
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| We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits. Author: Adam Jones
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| France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything. Author: Adam Michnik
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| I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow. Author: Adam Osborne
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| People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster. Author: Adam Osborne
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| I was stuck with looking like a girl. As soon as I got out of music it was straight off to the hairdressers. Author: Adam Rickitt
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| With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message. Author: Adam Rickitt
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| 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. Author: Adam Sandler
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| 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. Author: Adam Sandler
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| Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself. Author: Adam Savage
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| Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night. Author: Adam Schiff
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| While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King's dream. Author: Adam Schiff
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| It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country. Author: Adam Smith
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| Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| Making peace is harder than making war. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think. Author: Adolf Eichmann
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| The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. Author: Adolf Hitler
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| Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year. Author: Adrian Belew
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| I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record. Author: Adrian Belew
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| King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it. Author: Adrian Belew
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| King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe. Author: Adrian Belew
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| Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag. Author: Adrian Cronauer
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| A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image. Author: Adrian Edmondson
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| It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again. Author: Adrian Edmondson
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| On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing. Author: Adrian Edmondson
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| Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time. Author: Adrian Lyne
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| I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really. Author: Adrian Lyne
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| Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step. Author: Adrian Lyne
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| I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world. Author: Adrian Mitchell
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| A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult. Author: Adrian Smith
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| Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing. Author: Adriana Lima
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| When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do. Author: Adrienne Barbeau
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| A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. Author: Adrienne Rich
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| Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women. Author: Adrienne Rich
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| We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative. Author: Adrienne Rich
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| By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. Author: Aeschylus
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| It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. Author: Agatha Christie
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| To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking. Author: Agnes de Mille
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| For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak. Author: Agnes Smedley
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| Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children. Author: Agnes Smedley
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| I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask. Author: Agnes Smedley
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