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"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti "If my doctor told me I had only six months to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster." - Isaac Asimov "Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world." - Dave Barry "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho "Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment." - Robert Benchley "Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you." - William Blake "Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office." - David Broder "Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." - Dr. Joyce Brothers "No one can earn a million dollars honestly." - William Jennings Bryan "Believing in gods always causes confusion." - Pearl S. Buck "When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place." - Pearl S. Buck "After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." - Cato the Elder "Carthage must be destroyed." - Cato the Younger "There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?" - Dick Cavett "We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified. And in the case of certain well-known religions, it was justified." - Graham Chapman "Have an adequate day." - Charade "He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it." - Pierre Charron "It's so beautifully arranged on the plate—you know someone's fingers have been all over it." - Julia Child "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Winston Churchill "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." - Winston Churchill "The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn." - Cicero "I don't think anyone should be educated sexually. There's far too many people on the planet. If we could hush it up for a few years, that would help." - John Cleese "Study the past if you would divine the future." - Confucius "I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose." - Clarence Darrow "You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free." - Clarence Darrow "I think; therefore I am." - Rene Descartes "A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy." - Benjamin Disraeli "Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art." - Benjamin Disraeli "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius." - Arthur Conan Doyle "Beware the fury of a patient man." - John Dryden "Hell, there are no rules here— we're trying to accomplish something." - Thomas Edison "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." - Albert Einstein "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." - Albert Einstein "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein "I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough." - M. C. Escher "With one hundred dollars, you can buy sex, drugs, or murder; you can buy another human's dignity; you cannot, however, purchase a decent pair of shoes." - R. B. Fairchild "Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom." - Marilyn Ferguson "I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally." - W. C. Fields "Start every day off with a smile and get it over with." - W. C. Fields "It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself." - Betty Friedan "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err." - Mohandas K. Gandhi "How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?" - Charles de Gaulle "'One of Hollywood's greatest visionaries'?! I'm not even a Hollywood director!" - Terry Gilliam "People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want." - Terry Gilliam "I do want to say things in these films. I want audiences to come out with shards stuck in them. I don't care if people love my films or walk out, as long as they have a strong response." - Terry Gilliam (on future use of CGI in his films) "Nooo! Leave that to George Lucas, he' s really mastered the CGI acting. That scares me! I hate it! Everybody is so pleased and excited by it. Animation is animation. Animation is great. But it's when you're now taking what should be films full of people, living thinking, breathing, flawed creatures and you're controlling every moment of that, it's just death to me. It's death to cinema, I can't watch those Star Wars films, they're dead things." - Terry Gilliam "I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg - I don't usually admit this publicly - because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it - to use it as a way of luring audiences in." - Terry Gilliam "It's hard for me to worry about the studios losing money. I'm not very sympathetic to their money problems, because they certainly haven't been sympathetic to mine." - Terry Gilliam "None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free." - Goethe "Calling atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color." - Don Hirschberg "Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!" - Horace "A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run." - Elbert Hubbard "Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace." - Elbert Hubbard "John [Cleese] once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it." - Eric Idle (on gay marriage) "It's about time they suffered too." - Eric Idle (on his favourite sexual position) "Flat on my back with my wallet open." - Eric Idle "If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?" - Eric Idle "What you need is sustained outrage . . . there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority." - Molly Ivins "Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it." - Thomas Jefferson "Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day." - Thomas Jefferson "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." - Thomas Jefferson "I cannot live without books." - Thomas Jefferson "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson "Never spend your money before you have it." - Thomas Jefferson "Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. " - Thomas Jefferson "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." - Thomas Jefferson "That government is best which governs least." - Thomas Jefferson "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive." - Thomas Jefferson "We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate." - Thomas Jefferson "If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it." - Thomas Jefferson "Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use." - Wendell Johnson (on the death of Graham Chapman, who died on the eve of the 20th aniversary of the Monty Python comedy troupe) "I thought it was in terribly bad taste for him to die when he did." - Terry Jones "The problem with the media is [news organizations] are primarily owned by corporations, and corporations are pro-establishment... Newspapers and television start using the vocabulary of politicians, and that's the way bias creeps in." - Terry Jones "A liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged." - Wendy Kaminer "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." - John F. Kennedy 1/2 2/2 |