We are, of course, now against any other group burning Qurans. We would right now ask no one to burn Qurans. We are absolutely strong on that. It is not the time to do it.
~By Terry Jones ~
I don't know if I could ever really be cast in a heartthrob role apart from 'Twilight,' which I didn't really know was a heartthrob role. I really don't feel I am one.
~By Robert Pattinson ~
I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do.
~By Andrew Lloyd Webber ~
I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters.
~By Tara Strong ~
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
~By Alan Lakein ~
Sometimes you forget where the heck you are but when you get on stage, you know by the look on the people's faces and the accent in their voices where you might be.
~By Jason Mraz ~
I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.
~By Chris LeDoux ~
I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.
~By James Laughlin ~
Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one.
~By Crystal Gayle ~
It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.
~By Daisy Donovan ~
You know, you just go out there, do your best. Sometimes it's good enough and sometimes it is, and sometimes it stays your only one and sometimes you win bunch others behind it.
~By Ivan Lendl ~
It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.
~By Sean Connery ~
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.
~By Gordon Brown ~
What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
~By Gwendolyn Brooks ~
Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was very difficult. You couldn't get her on the set; she didn't know the words.
~By Richard Widmark ~
We now have the right to have immediate, unfettered access to any site in Iraq and we have the right to interview people, both inside and outside Iraq.
~By Mohamed ElBaradei ~
I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.
~By Olivia Wilde ~
The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
~By C. L. R. James ~
Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.
~By Arthur Rock ~
I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.
~By Eric Idle ~
You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.
~By Robert Greenwald ~
I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.
~By Margaret Spellings ~
Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
You guys know the way I play. And what's so ironic is, KG is the same way. I'm looking at him in practice and going, 'Wow, I'm always that guy,' you know?
~By Latrell Sprewell ~
I believe entertainers should know what's going on and do their own banking.
~By Stephanie Mills ~
We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment.
~By David Satcher ~
I don't know Bill Clinton as someone who needs to literally sexually harass a woman. I'm sure that he could have found many willing participants.
~By Gennifer Flowers ~
You may be leading, then you might be at the back of the pack trying to work your way up. It's just a constant reminder not to give up, and to know that God, in my mind, is really in control.
~By Jeff Gordon ~
Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.
~By John Fahey ~
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.
~By Brian Boitano ~
I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
I'm working on a snow scene right now, and it's summer. It's hot, and I will get chilly. I'll have to turn on the heat. My wife walks in, and it's 95 degrees in the studio. I know it's nutty, but it's a projection you have where you step into the painting.
~By Thomas Kinkade ~
In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?
~By Liam Neeson ~
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.
~By Rosamund Pike ~
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
~By Phyllis Diller ~
We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new.
~By George Combe ~
I still don't know anything about drugs, or who takes them, or what happens.
~By Michael Giles ~
Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
~By Jack Kevorkian ~
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
~By William Glasser ~
I came from the country, and when I came to the city, I was ridin' high, you know. I was seeing more lights than I ever dreamed to shine in the world. 'Cos where I came from, there wasn't too many lights. Bugs made a lot of light, but after that there wasn't no lights.
~By John Hunter ~
But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here.
~By Patty Hearst ~
I know how to do anything, I'm a mom.
~By Roseanne Barr Arnold ~
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
~By Brian Tracy ~
You know, the country is basically peaceful.
~By Paul Bremer ~
When you start out without a record nobody knows you, but if you have a record it's a lot easier.
~By John Deacon ~
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.
~By Samantha Mumba ~
I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
~By Joseph de Maistre ~
In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.
~By Will Smith ~
Christ, he was paranoid about criticism. I used to say: why doesn't he worry about the team and forget what people are saying? He got Phil Thompson, who was a kid coming through when I was a Liverpool player, to have a go at me. So now I don't talk to him.
~By Ian St. John ~
I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.
~By Michelangelo Antonioni ~
I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.
~By Jimmy Buffett ~
This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.
~By Geoffrey Rush ~
You know, I'm a Christian and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things.
~By Sharron Angle ~
But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that.
~By Richard Krajicek ~
I'm really excited to be a part of it and sharing the legacy, any documentary I look up at the sky and Kevin Burns did and Bryan did and showed me again you know the history that's in this character and you know.
~By Brandon Routh ~
Morgan, Lewis is a very large firm now, but it was not quite as big then. It was exciting for an associate in those days, because you got good and varied assignments and terrific training.
~By Fred F. Fielding ~
Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now it's nascent.
~By Peter Brimelow ~
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
~By Jose Marti ~
Now nobody get nervous, you ain't got nothing to fear. You're being robbed by the John Dillinger Gang, that's the best there is!
~By John Dillinger ~
There hasn't been enough change in comics to suit me. I don't know why exactly.
~By Harvey Pekar ~
As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.
~By David Horowitz ~
All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to.
~By Grandmaster Flash ~
I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they're annoyed if you've had a party - you know, it's been a bit too noisy for them or something.
~By Boy George ~
I think I'm most proud of my family right now. I'm more into that then I've ever been. It also gives a new area to draw from in creativity with my songs.
~By Merle Haggard ~
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
~By Peter Drucker ~
Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.
~By Kristin Davis ~
Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.
~By Joshua Slocum ~
We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great.
~By Christine Gregoire ~
I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.
~By Dan Quayle ~
I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.
~By Garry Shandling ~
I knew there was something I had to do yesterday. I couldn't remember what it is. I can't figure it out. I know it's a holiday. I know I don't have a meeting. It's very confusing.
~By Jennifer Beals ~
I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.
~By Dwight L. Moody ~
Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.
~By Stephen M. Walt ~
Do you know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much.
~By John Barbirolli ~
Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.
~By William Faulkner ~
So, I took lessons, and I love to shoot now. It's a lot of fun.
~By Reba McEntire ~
The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
I don't honestly think people know what acting is.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California.
~By Meg Whitman ~
I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
~By Bill Watterson ~
When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.
~By Cindy Sheehan ~
I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader.
~By Leroy Chiao ~
The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.
~By John Shadegg ~
The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.
~By Jose Ramos Horta ~
Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough.
~By Marvin Harris ~
I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college.
~By Elliott Carter ~
Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.
~By Christian Audigier ~
We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what? We are not going to lose another job from California, and we're going to be the very best place to start and grow a business.' So I'll be the chief sales officer for California businesses.
~By Meg Whitman ~
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
~By Carl Sagan ~
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I do smoke in real life. A lot. We're all smoking right now in fact.
~By Michael Imperioli ~
I'm not a happy-ending person. I want to know what happens once Cinderella rides off with Prince Charming.
~By Melissa Joan Hart ~
I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
~By LaToya London ~
I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire. I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.
~By Michael Moore ~
We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.
~By Ruth Handler ~
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