Famous Quotes By Christina Aguilera

 

1. Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
2. For me the visual is just as important as the music.
3. Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.
4. I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
5. I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.
6. I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.
7. I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
8. I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?
9. I really don't spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.
10. I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.
11. I think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life, we give life, we are the sources of life for our children - we're all pretty bionic.
12. I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.
13. I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home.
14. I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.
15. I'm at peace.
16. I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.
17. I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.
18. In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.
19. It can be hard in this business, especially when you're very young, to figure out who you can and can't trust.
20. It's an amazing thing to say, 'I'm beautiful,' without feeling like you're cocky.
21. It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.
22. It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives... for that I give thanks.
23. It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.
24. It's important to take time for your spouse and nurture the relationship.
25. My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.
26. My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.
27. My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.
28. My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.
29. Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
30. Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.
31. So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
32. Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.
33. To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.
34. We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.
35. Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.
36. When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.
37. You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

Famous Quotes By Daniel Radcliffe

 

1. England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.
2. I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.
3. I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.
4. I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.
5. I have no idea how much money I've got.
6. I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.
7. I love coming home to somebody, I love being in a relationship.
8. I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's a funny thing with 3D, I haven't quite got it yet. Yet.
9. I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool.
10. I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.
11. I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.
12. I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.
13. If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice pairs of jeans - but I also like to look good. I like feeling really well put together, I just don't have the aptitude and the knowledge to do that.I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.
14. I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.
15. I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.
16. I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.
17. Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.
18. It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.
19. I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this.
20. I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.
21. My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.
22. My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.
23. My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.
24. People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.
25. Religion leaves no room for human complexity.
26. The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.
27. The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.
28. The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.
29. There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.

Famous Quotes By Jim Carrey

 

1. A lot of good love can happen in ten years.
2. Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.
3. Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
4. But, you know, you can't be a star at home.
5. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
6. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
7. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
8. I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid they told me I was being funny.
9. I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.
10. I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.
11. I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.
12. I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.
13. I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.
14. I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'
15. If you've got a talent, protect it.
16. I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.
17. I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.
18. It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
19. Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
20. Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.
21. Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.
22. My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.
23. My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.
24. My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
25. My mother was a professional sick person she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.
26. One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.
27. That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'
28. The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

Famous Quotes By Desmond Tutu

 

1. All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
2. Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
3. But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
4. Do your little bit of good where you are its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
5. Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
6. Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
7. God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
8. God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.
9. God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
10. Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
11. I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
12. I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.
13. I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
14. If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
15. If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
16. In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
17. In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
18. In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
19. In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
20. Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
21. Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
22. It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
23. Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
24. The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
25. The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
26. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
27. Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
28. We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
29. When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
30. When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
31. Without forgiveness, there's no future.
32. You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
33. Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Famous Quotes By Henry Louis Gates

 

1. America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.
2. Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
3. I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'
4. If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.
5. If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA.
6. My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.
7. My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.
8. My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.
9. My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.
10. Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.
11. People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
12. People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.
13. So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
14. The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.
15. The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.
16. The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
17. There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.
18. Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.
19. We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.
20. Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
21. Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

Famous Quotes By Stephen Hawking

 

1. Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.
2. God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
3. God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.
4. I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.
5. I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.
6. I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
7. I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
8. I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.
9. I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.
10. If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.
11. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
12. In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.
13. Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
14. It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
15. It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
16. Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
17. Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
18. My work and my family are very important to me.
19. Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
20. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
21. Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
22. Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
23. Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
24. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
25. The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.
26. The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.
27. The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.
28. The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
29. The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
30. There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
31. There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.
32. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
33. Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.
34. Women. They are a complete mystery.
35. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Famous Quotes By Michael Jordan

 

1. Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
2. As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.
3. Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.
4. For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.
5. Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.
6. I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
7. I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.
8. I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.
9. I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.
10. I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.
11. I wasn't really a work conscious type of person.
12. I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.
13. If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
14. If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
15. In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.
16. I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
17. I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
18. I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
19. Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
20. Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.
21. My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
22. Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
23. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
24. The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.
25. The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
26. When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.
27. When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

Famous Quotes By David Byrne

 

1. Architecture theory is very interesting.
2. Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
3. I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
4. I don't like begging money from producers.
5. I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.
6. I found music to be the therapy of choice.
7. I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
8. I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
9. I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.
10. I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.
11. If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.
12. I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.
13. It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.
14. It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.
15. It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.
16. I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.
17. I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.
18. I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.
19. My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
20. Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.
21. People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.
22. Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
23. Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
24. So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.
25. Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
26. The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
27. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.
28. The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
29. There's more good music being made now than ever before.
30. To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
31. We don't make music - it makes us.
32. We tend to mistake music for the physical object.
33. Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
34. With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.
35. Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.
36. You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
37. You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

Famous Quotes By Bo Bennett

 

1. A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.
2. A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.
3. A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
4. An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.
5. Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success they are interested in your money.
6. As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.
7. Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.
8. Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.
9. For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
10. Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.
11. Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.
12. If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?
13. If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
14. If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.
15. Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.
16. One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
17. Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.
18. Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.
19. Success is not in what you have, but who you are.
20. The best way to lose a job is just not to care. When you do not care, it shows in everything you do.
21. The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
22. There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
23. Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.
24. Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
25. To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.
26. Value people on their potential, not on their history.
27. We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.
28. When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.
29. While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
30. Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

Famous Quotes By Madeleine Albright

 

1. As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone.
2. Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
3. Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
4. I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
5. I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.
6. I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.
7. I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.
8. I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
9. I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
10. I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.
11. I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
12. I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.
13. I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.
14. I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.
15. I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
16. I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.
17. I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
18. I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.
19. If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
20. If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.
21. It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.
22. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
23. Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
24. Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
25. The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.
26. The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
27. The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
28. This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.
29. We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about what they care about is the picture.
30. We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
31. Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, yo
32. While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
33. Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.
34. Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

Famous Quotes By Rabindranath Tagore

 

1. Age considers youth ventures.
2. Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
3. Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
4. By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
5. Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
6. Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
7. Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
8. Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
9. Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
10. Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
11. Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
12. Facts are many, but the truth is one.
13. Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
14. From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
15. Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
16. He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
17. I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
18. If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
19. In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
20. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
21. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
22. Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
23. Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
24. Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
25. Music fills the infinite between two souls.
26. The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
27. The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
28. The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.
29. Those who own much have much to fear.
30. To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
31. Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
32. We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
33. We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
34. What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
35. Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

Famous Quotes By Ellie Goulding

 

1. Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold.
2. Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.
3. I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.
4. I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something.
5. I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.
6. 'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.
7. I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.
8. I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.
9. I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.
10. I suffer panic attacks which has made me really conscious about my fitness and I have become addicted to jogging. It might sound odd but a lot of good has come out of it. My fans send letters saying they have taken up jogging because I do it.
11. I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I'd be so happy.
12. I was the first person to go to university from my family.
13. I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.
14. I'd like a male to listen to my music and find it kind of fascinating, what a girl goes through when they get heartbroken or get sad or get hurt by something.
15. I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.
16. Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.
17. Mumford & Sons' music appeals to a lot of America. I'm really proud of them.
18. Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.
19. People always try to find my agenda, but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I'm doing important music, too. I've just always done what I wanted to do.
20. Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it together and produce it together. I've got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it.The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.
21. There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I going to get respect, critical acclaim? Or am I going to sell lots of records?
22. You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

Famous Quotes By Eliot Spitzer

 

1. A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.
2. After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.
3. Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.
4. Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government.
5. From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.
6. Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.
7. I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.
8. I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.
9. I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.
10. I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.
11. In politics you learn to always smile.
12. In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.
13. It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.
14. Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.
15. Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.
16. Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant.
17. The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.
18. Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented people? Absolutely. Are there other ways to be involved and lead an interesting life? Of course.
19. Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

Famous Quotes By Dave Barry

 

1. As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
2. Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.
3. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.
4. Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
5. Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
6. Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.
7. Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
8. Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.
9. Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.
10. Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.
11. I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
12. I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
13. I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.
14. I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.
15. I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.
16. It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
17. It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
18. It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
19. Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
20. Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.
21. Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
22. Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
23. The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
24. The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.
25. The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
26. The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
27. The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
28. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.
29. The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.
30. The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
31. The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
32. The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
33. The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.
34. To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
35. We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
36. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
37. Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

Famous Quotes By Tony Campolo

 

1. After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.
2. And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.
3. But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?
4. But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.
5. Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.
6. Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.
7. From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.
8. Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.
9. I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.
10. I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.
11. I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.
12. I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.
13. If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.
14. If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?
15. It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.
16. It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp.
17. Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.
18. Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.'
19. Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
20. Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.
21. Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.
22. So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.
23. Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.