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I mean come on. Do you know how easy it is to be famous these days? Do you have any idea? The web has made it plausible to have your very own platform to stand and spew nonsense from on an hourly basis. There's an old saying: when everyone is special, no one will be. These days, everybody thinks they're special, so no one really does anything to be special anymore.

I'm not a spy, which is the real question

I'm not saying all seniors should be running a city or running a business, but I am saying seniors are good for a lot more than simply running a bath, baking cookies or babysitting grandchildren.

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.

In 1942 Cachao wrote a tune for Arcao, 'Rareza de Melitn,' with a memorable catchy tumbao. In 1957 Arcao recorded a reworking of it under the name 'Chanchullo'; and in 1962 Tito Puente reworked that into 'Oye como va,' still with that same groove. In this form, audibly the same, it powered Carlos Santana's multiplatinum 1970 cover version, close to three decades after Cachao first played it.

In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo.... It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor in that form. In a word, it was nothing but a zoo, you can't put it better

In many ways, constancy is an illusion.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed than in earlier years.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

Instead of going out, I'm trying to encourage people to have a memorable experience in their own home. We call it 'Delicioso Night In.' I invite the people I care about the most. Then, when I get a lot of people together, I like to have finger foods.

Instant gratification is not soon enough.

In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.

In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two poles of a Volta pile. On his table was a magnetized needle on its pivot, and he suddenly saw (by chance you will say, but chance only favours the mind which is prepared) the needle move and take up a position quite different from the one assigned to it by terrestrial magnetism. A wire carrying an electric current deviates a magnetized needle from its position. That, gentlemen, was the birth of the modern telegraph.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner.

I remember when I saw 'The Matrix' when I was 13, I saw it in the theaters, and I was so blown away by it. It was one of the most memorable experiences I definitely ever had in the theater.

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

I still have night terrors about things happening to my son. The worst things cross your mind when you care so much. I keep them at bay as best I can, and it's a struggle for me not to just do everything for him.

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

I think at times the very strong feelings I have about my country coincide with my musical ability, and I'm able to actually turn it into music, a song or even hopefully a memorable song, sometimes. You may find it surprising, but I'm a very intense, proud American. I love being an American.

I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.

It doesn't matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don't succeed, someone will succeed.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

I think that you should just be yourself and make sure you pick a really, really good song, and make sure you're memorable.

I think the reason the stories are briskly paced, when they are, is that I like story. I like stories where things happen and there are surprises and reversals, in addition to vivid characters and a memorable voice. So those are the kinds of stories I try to write. And it turns out that's pretty much the only kind of writing that works for TV. It's a medium that just devours story, demands surprises and reversals. So my sensibility is suited to TV storytelling, at least as we think of it today.

I think we have an obligation to put on a fun show and put on a concert that's memorable, that's energetic and that spreads joy and open-mindedness. If being open-minded and joyful is against your political beliefs, then you know, f**k you.

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of the thinker. The memorable experiment of Faraday with a disc rotating between two poles of a magnet, which has borne such magnificent fruit, has long passed into every-day experience; yet there are certain features about this embryo of the present dynamos and motors which even today appear to us striking, and are worthy of the most careful study.

It is a very classic Western [Valley of Violence], and if you like Westerns, you'll like this movie, but there's a tone to it that's all its own that I think is unique and memorable.

It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.