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40 Oscar Wild Quotes

* Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

* Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

* I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. 

* To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. 

* We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

* If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. 

* It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. 

* The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

* Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

* You can never be overdressed or overeducated. 

* Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

* Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

* A good friend will always stab you in the front.

* I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

* Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

* Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

* You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

* Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

* I am not young enough to know everything.

* The heart was made to be broken.

* You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

* A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

* Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

* Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

* Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. 

* The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

* I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

* Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. 

* Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

* With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

* Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

* A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. 

* I can resist anything except temptation. 

* If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. 

* I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

* All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.

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20 Steve Jobs Quotes

~ We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.

~ That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

~ Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other opinions drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

~ I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.

~ Quality is much better than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

~ Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

~ Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

~ When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

~ Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.

~ My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.

~ Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

~ What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

~ Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… The ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

~ It’s better to be a pirate than to join the navy.

~ Stay hungry. Stay foolish. 

~ You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

~ Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

~ Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

 

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30 Education Quotes

* The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ~ Aristotle 

* Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. ~ George Washington Carver 

* It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~ Aristotle 

* The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. ~ Carl Rogers 

* The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. ~ Herbert Spencer 

* The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~ Sydney J. Harris 

* Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ~ William Butler Yeats 

* The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

John Locke

* The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ~ Malcolm Forbes

* An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. ~ Benjamin Franklin

* Education is the movement from darkness to light. ~ Allan Bloom

* Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. ~ Maimonides

* You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward. ~ Conrad Hall

* The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. ~ Abraham Lincoln

* Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. ~ Anthony J. D'Angelo

* Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. ~ B. F. Skinner

* The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ~ Robert M. Hutchins

* Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. ~ Albert Einstein

* Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~ Robert Frost

* Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. ~ Chanakya

* If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. ~ Galileo Galilei

* The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

~ John F. Kennedy 

* It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. ~ Albert Einstein 

* A child miseducated is a child lost. ~ John F. Kennedy 

* Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. ~ Thomas Jefferson 

* A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. ~ Theodore Roosevelt 

* Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ~ Malcolm Forbes

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40 Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

* Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.

* My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.

* I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

* You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.

* If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts.

* Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

* Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, 'Life in the Fast Lane?' That's what they're saying right there? You think, 'why have I been singing 'wipe in the vaseline?' how many people have heard me sing 'wipe in the vaseline?' I am an idiot.

* The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.

* In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

* Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three letters because we don't have the time or patience to pronounce the entire disorder. That should be a disorder right there, TBD - Too Busy Disorder.

* Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if people are passing you on the street saying, "I can't tell if that person is laughing or crying, but either way they seem crazy, let's walk faster." Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.

* When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

* You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled.

* My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.

* I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.

* Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.

* True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.

* Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.

* Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

* What’s not so great is that all this technology is destroying our social skills. Not only have we given up on writing letters to each other, we barely even talk to each other. People have become so accustomed to texting that they’re actually startled when the phone rings. It’s like we suddenly all have Batphones. If it rings, there must be danger.

* Well you scared me half to death. You can’t just pick up the phone and try to talk to me like that. Don’t the tips of your fingers work?

* Find out who you are and figure out what you believe in. Even if it's different from what your neighbors believe in and different from what your parents believe in. Stay true to yourself. Have your own opinion. Don't worry about what people say about you or think about you. Let the naysayers nay. They will eventually grow tired of naying.

* I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old-fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before. 

* People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant. 

* Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it’s worse when you see them wearing dark glasses, having streamers around their necks and a hat on their antlers. Because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot.

* Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that.

* I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.

* If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions.

* You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. 

* Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear and an open mind and a spectacular spleen.

* Haters are my motivators

* I'm just saying we can all work on our manners. We can say please and thank you. We can be punctual. We can just be nicer to one another. It's something we have in our power to do. It reminds me of that Margaret Mead quote: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

* You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic. No wonder I drink so much! Then I get so drunk, I can barely feed the baby.

That's what I call myself when I'm drunk, "The Baby.

* I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.

* If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.

* Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.

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30 Aristotle Quotes

* There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

* Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

* We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

* Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

* Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

* The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

* In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

* Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

* We make war that we may live in peace.

* The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

* At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

* The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

* The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

* Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

* Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

* Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

* Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.

* The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

* Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

* There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

* In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

* The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

* We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

* Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

* Man is by nature a political animal.

* Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

* Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

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20 Brad Pitt Quotes

* Woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much.

* By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

* I 'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.

* When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols.

* My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.

* My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'

* I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.

* I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.

* You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

* It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.

* I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

* I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they're brothers and sisters, man. They're brothers and sisters and it's a sight for elation.

* I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big. I wanted there to be chaos in the house.

* My life has been about big changes.

* When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

* Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.

* I'm much more experienced now, so I can find films that are interesting quicker and cut out the films that don't really matter. It means more to me now because my kids are going to see them, and I want them to be proud.

* I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that way. It was just a whole new culture I didn't understand. I snuck into it. It was an R-rated film. So it holds a special place.

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45 Mariah Carey Quotes

* I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

* I try not to be a jerk. I really do. I try to be nice and cordial.

* A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

* You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

* Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.

* One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting. 

* Forget the image, forget the ensemble, forget the rumours, forget the short skirts, the big hair, whatever! I owe this to the fans and I will never forget you so I want to accept this award on behalf of all of you. 

* Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.

* This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!

* I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.

* I've seen other artists put out movies that went straight to DVD, and no one cared. Maybe their own fans bought the thing, and that was fine.

* I think certain people like to torture me because they think I've had it easier than I actually have and they think: 'Oh, she's got this, she's got that, she's always had everything perfect,' and it's sooo not true.

* My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

* In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

* Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy.

* I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

* Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

* I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.

* People are like, 'What is your whole obsession with butterflies?' I'm like, 'I'm not obsessed. I like them. Can't anybody like something?'

* I really rebel against authority.

* I've been blessed to live my dream more than half my life, so I want help give that back to someone else.

* It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

* I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.

* If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.

* You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.

* People are constantly asking me if I'm pregnant, but I don't like to talk about it too much. I just think about it as the next phase. We'll see.

* I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.

* I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race.

* I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed.

* But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

* I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to.

* I work myself into the ground.

* Since having the babies, I realize that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet.

* I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.

* My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted.

* The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

* I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

* I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.

* I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

* I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

* My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.

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30 Lady Gaga Quotes

* Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.

* I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.

* Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.

* Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

* Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.

* ‎Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, cuz we were born this way bitch!

* When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. 

* They can't scare me, if I scare them first.

* Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?

* I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because I love you that much.

* If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light.

* And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

* I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.

* I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, "It's OK to be sad." I've been trained to love my darkness.

* I'm a free bitch baby.

* I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.

* I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.

* Cause it's a hard life, with love in the world. and i'm a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls.

* A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don’t say I dress sexily on stage - what I do is so extreme. It’s meant to make guys think: ‘I don’t know if this is sexy or just weird.

* I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.

* I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish.

* Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.

* Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger

* As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.

* I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true.

* Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner, you want to be like yourself. I want my fans to know it's okay.

* When I wake up in the morning, I feel like any other insecure 24-year-old girl. Then I say,'Bitch, you're Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today.

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30 Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

* If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people. 

* I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor. 

* It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin! 

* Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me, I don't know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I'm a weirdo. 

* The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day. 

* I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone. 

* My mother is a walking miracle. 

* I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now. 

* I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

* I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up. 

* The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday. 

* I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship. 

* To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy. 

* The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out. 

* I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of. 

* Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him. 

* I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun. 

* My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.

* I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating.

* I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.

* The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.

* I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?

* I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

* If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay.

* I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.

* My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.

* I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

Quote of the Day 11-Feb-16

Quote of the Day 10-Feb-16

40 Whitney Houston Quotes

* I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

* When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That's what I wanted to do.

* I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.

* You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

* In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.

* My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.

* I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.

* I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

* When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.

* I've always been a thin girl. I'm not going to be fat, ever. Let's get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever. Okay?

* My daughter is my greatest inspiration.

* From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.

* My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

* No one makes me do anything I don't want to do.

* I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.

* I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.

* When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.

* I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.

* I'm a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.

* I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.

* God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

* I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

* I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.

* Loneliness comes with life.

* I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

* I'm older, I'm matured... I'm looking forward to the years to come. Good years. 

* I'm good where I am at this moment.

* Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.

* What's in your soul is in your soul.

* I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.

* I love to sing, but it's just not fun anymore.

* I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

* I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do.

* I'm the kind of person, if, if I have a day that is nerve-wracking, or my week has been bad or something's going down, I won't eat. Some people eat, I don't eat. And it shows in my physical frame.

* Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody.

* I have a mother that's very strong and family that surround me and constantly tell me they love me.