The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

Stephen King

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Stephen King

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

Shane MacGowan

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Karl Marx

When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

Jack Nicholson

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

Vince Lombardi

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

Luciano Pavarotti

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

LinChi

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

George Burns

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Dale Carnegie

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

Wilkie Collins

Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

Friedrich Von Schlegel