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"The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

"Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences"

Giovanni Morassutti, Actor

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

George Matthew Adams, Philosopher

"By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself"

Menander, Poet

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire"

Confucius, Philosopher

"The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little"

Ben Sweetland, Author

"Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure"

Roy L. Smith, Clergyman

"We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do"

Olin Miller, Writer

"I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It is the truth"

Brad Pitt, Actor

"I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy"

Kathy Bates, Actress

"My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message"

Christian Bale, Actor

"Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off"

Roger McGough, Poet

"Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people"

Fannie Flagg, Author

"Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil"

David Wilmot, Activist

"I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them"

Edward James Olmos, Actor

"I really only respect the Arab culture. I ain't really trying to pay no attention to, ya know, these little people in political positions and executive positions that ain't Arab culture oriented people because a lot of the times, what are you really showing all of this concern for?"

Busta Rhymes, Musician

"I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody"

Glenn Frey, Musician

"It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country"

Bill Brandt, Photographer

"I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you were doing. You wanted to catch up and the best way to catch up was to move as fast as you could toward a degree"

Daniel J. Evans, Politician

"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage"

John Steinbeck, Author

"I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

"There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children"

George W. Bush, President

"When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross"

Megan Fox, Actress

"Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people"

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

"Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes"

Ross Perot, Businessman

"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"I try to use my music to move these people to act"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"You have to give people something to dream on"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

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