Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Albert Einstein

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.

Proverb

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

Robert Wyatt

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.

Bjorn Lomborg

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

James Russell Lowell

As beauty lies in eyes of beholder, struggling lies in reaching further.

Santosh Kalwar

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

Alastair Campbell

You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.

Adam Sandler

I love her beyond reason.

Janet Mullany

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.

Phillip E. Johnson

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Mark Twain

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

Harold Ramis