Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you will become a general. If you become a monk, then you will end up as Pope.' Instead, I became a painter, and wound up as Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.
Homer, Iliad
The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.
Steve Garvey
I have condemned Khomeini's fatwa to kill Salman Rushdie as a breach of international relations and as an assault on Islam as we know it in the era of apostasy. I believe that the wrong done by Khomeini towards Islam and the Muslims is no less than that done by the author himself. As regards freedom of expression, I have said that it must be considered sacred and that thought can only be corrected by counter-thought. During the debate, I supported the boycott of the book as a means of maintaining social peace, granted that such a decision would not be used as a pretext to constrain thought.
Naguib Mahfouz, AlAhram, March 2
For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.
Michelle Obama
I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.
Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel Lecture
I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.
Nikki Sixx
I have to be honest with you. Islam is on very thin ice with me....Through our screaming self-pity and our conspicuous silences, we Muslims are conspiring against ourselves. We're in crisis and we're dragging the rest of the world with us. If ever there was a moment for an Islamic reformation, it's now. For the love of God, what are we doing about it?
Irshad Manji, The Trouble with I
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.
Naguib Mahfouz, Echoes of an Aut
Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.(Gore Vidal writing about the critic Edmund Wilson)
Gore Vidal, New York Review of B
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Soren Kierkegaard
Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.
Pete Domenici
French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.
Kristin Scott Thomas
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
Fred W. Friendly
But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.
Peter L. Berger
Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
Anna Deavere Smith
We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.
John Dos Passos
Bambi can't act. Bambi had major attitude.
Treat Williams
Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously.
Peter Welch
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.
Lawrence Welk
Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.
Antonio Banderas
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
B. C. Forbes
We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
Maurice Strong
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Anton Chekhov
Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.
Joe Namath
I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
Carl Lewis
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
Bette Davis
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
Maya Lin
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
Joseph Barbera
I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
Lady Gaga
Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.
Leon Panetta
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
Bodhidharma
Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
Sigmund Freud
The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.
Tom Tancredo
A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
Joyce Brothers
I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.
Geoffrey Rush
You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.
Sheryl Swoopes
What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong, have respect for my people, my family, my nation and mankind.
Alexis Arguello
I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.
Julien Benda
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