I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment. --Malcolm X
This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
-- Al Capone
Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left. --George Burns at age 90
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. --Elizabeth Taylor
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper that did his job well.
-- Martin Luther King
I'm not Jacko, I'm Jackson... 'Wacko Jacko' - Where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me, it's not nice. --Michael Jackson
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. --Pablo Picasso
But I refuse to believe that I am a better actor than myself. --Jim Carrey
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
--Walt Disney
If you're going through hell, keep going. --Walt Disney
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning. --Samuel Jackson
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the Best.
--Frank Zappa
The attraction of being wild is living on the edge, living up to the reputations of the people you've been following or emulating. People are always talking about how wild and exciting they were, but the key word is 'were', because there's a long list of dead, famous people. --Christian Slater
You can see our respect for women by the fact that we have pledged to pay working women, even though they don't have to work. --Taliban Information Minister Amir Kan Muttaqi
I wanted revenge; I wanted to dance on the graves of a few people who made me unhappy. It's a pretty infantile way to go through life - I'll show them - but I've done it, and I've got more than I ever dreamed of.
-- Anthony Hopkins



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