Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.
Ray Blanton

When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth.
Ray Blanton

All rock musicians are deaf… Or insensitive to mellow sounds.
Marc Bolan

I feel there is a curse on rock stars.
Marc Bolan

Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can’t assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution.
Marc Bolan

I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.
Marc Bolan

I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.
Marc Bolan

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.
Lewis Black

And I know this happens because I took economics, and I’d explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o’clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.
Lewis Black

If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push ‘em closer.
Lewis Black

A father and two sons run Adelphia. It’s a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people – three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? ‘Let’s send the monkey to Mars, Dad!’
Lewis Black

In my lifetime, we’ve gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We’ve gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we’ll be voting for plants.
Lewis Black

There’s no such thing as soy milk. It’s soy juice.
Lewis Black

All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.
Lewis Black

If you’re working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That’s why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.
Lewis Black

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.
Kathryn Bigelow

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.
Kathryn Bigelow

On the other hand, I believe there’s hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.
Kathryn Bigelow

I like high impact movies.
Kathryn Bigelow

Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
Kathryn Bigelow

Right now, there’s the illusion of order and civilization, but there’s a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.
Kathryn Bigelow

I don’t believe in censorship in any form.
Kathryn Bigelow

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.
Kathryn Bigelow

You never think the universe will reward your first choice – it just doesn’t work like that.
Kathryn Bigelow

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.
Kathryn Bigelow

The Communist regime didn’t consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
Kathryn Bigelow

If there’s specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
Kathryn Bigelow

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.
Kathryn Bigelow

I don’t want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.
Kathryn Bigelow

When I made my first film, I didn’t think of it as directing, so it wasn’t like I set out to become a director.
Kathryn Bigelow

The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.
Kathryn Bigelow

One should make morals judgements for oneself.
Kathryn Bigelow

Character and emotionality don’t always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.
Kathryn Bigelow

I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn’t sell.
Kathryn Bigelow

There should be more women directing; I think there’s just not the awareness that it’s really possible.
Kathryn Bigelow

When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience.
Kathryn Bigelow

In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.
Jason Biggs

We all had our reservations about possibly overdoing it but, you know, the script was great. Basically it stuck to the formula that worked for the first two movies, and for that reason I think this works as well.
Jason Biggs

I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I’m playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations.
Jason Biggs

But once I went for it, left my inhibitions aside and saw its eventual success, it made me much more comfortable and eager THIS time around to take it to a whole new level.
Jason Biggs

Stuff with a group, stuff where there are other people around, I’ll try that.
Jason Biggs

Well, I’m never happier than when I’m acting.
Jason Biggs

I love playing Jim. I love working with this cast and the opportunity to come back and work with them again was just way too appealing for me. Also, I think this is a great way to wrap up the franchise.
Jason Biggs

But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls’ point of view, I’ve heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well.
Jason Biggs

Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.
Jason Biggs

I was nervous and hesitant about putting myself out there for the pie scene. But I went for it and the results were wonderful.
Jason Biggs

Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary.
Jason Biggs

But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to be Jason time, right? My time to enjoy myself away from movies.
Jason Biggs

Well, I’m proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.
Jason Biggs

I’m just glad I got to work with the likes of Spielberg.
Jason Biggs

But then, I just decided to get off my lazy butt and take advantage of the L.A. weather.
Jason Biggs

I don’t know if you’ll see me jumping out of planes anytime soon.
Jason Biggs

We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.
Jason Biggs

Like anyone who goes to college, you’re leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you’re starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.
Jason Biggs

A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I’d said something cool, but I was stunned.
Jason Biggs

I’ve heard every pie joke in the book. I’m still waiting for an original one.
Jason Biggs

Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.
Jason Biggs

My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet – especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult.
Jason Biggs

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
Harrison Birtwistle

I’m not an architectural composer.
Harrison Birtwistle

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.
Harrison Birtwistle

The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.
Harrison Birtwistle

When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
Harrison Birtwistle

It’s the irrational things that interest me.
Harrison Birtwistle

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn’t existed, I could have invented it.
Harrison Birtwistle

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It’s absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
Harrison Birtwistle

When I was a kid, I wrote music – from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
Harrison Birtwistle

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
Harrison Birtwistle

I’m not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I’ve never had that attitude to music.
Harrison Birtwistle

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don’t meet. And then your friends say: It’s terrific!
Harrison Birtwistle

One thing I’ve tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
Harrison Birtwistle

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it’s not just a collection of notes.
Harrison Birtwistle

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I’d been writing since I was 11.
Harrison Birtwistle

You either are or you’re not.
Harrison Birtwistle

In the end it doesn’t matter what you do.
Harrison Birtwistle

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.
Giovanni Boccaccio

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
Giovanni Boccaccio

Do as we say, and not as we do.
Giovanni Boccaccio

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
Giovanni Boccaccio

It just proves good movies don’t need 100 million dollars to be good.
Emily Blunt

When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.
David Boies

Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It’s just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.
David Boies

Napster’s only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster’s users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.
David Boies

The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.
David Boies

When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn’t as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
Carla Bley

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
Carla Bley

Listening is more important than anything else because that’s what music is. Somebody is playing something and you’re receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
Carla Bley

I still prefer the bebop of the ’40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.
Carla Bley

When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.
Carla Bley

Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
Carla Bley

I don’t enjoy traveling in America. I don’t like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.
Carla Bley

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
Carla Bley

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded ‘Sing Me Softly of the Blues’ and ‘Ad Infinitum’.
Carla Bley

When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.
Carla Bley

I write very slowly.
Carla Bley

Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
Bodhidharma

Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
Bodhidharma

And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
Bodhidharma

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
Bodhidharma

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
Bodhidharma

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
Bodhidharma

Your mind is nirvana.
Bodhidharma

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
Bodhidharma

As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
Bodhidharma

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
Bodhidharma

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
Bodhidharma

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
Bodhidharma

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
Bodhidharma

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
Bodhidharma

People who don’t see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
Bodhidharma

Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
Bodhidharma

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
Bodhidharma

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
Bodhidharma

People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
Bodhidharma

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
Bodhidharma

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
Bodhidharma

Words are illusions.
Bodhidharma

Your nature is the Buddha.
Bodhidharma

The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
Bodhidharma

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
Bodhidharma

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
Bodhidharma

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
Bodhidharma

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
Bodhidharma

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
Bodhidharma

We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman’s suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
Wade Boggs

The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.
Wade Boggs

In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
Wade Boggs

Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.
Wade Boggs

Then there’s Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.
Wade Boggs

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
Wade Boggs

I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.
Wade Boggs

This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.
Wade Boggs

I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn’t take any ability to hustle.
Wade Boggs

My God… What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don’t make the playoffs?
Wade Boggs

One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted’s passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
Wade Boggs

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that’s why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
Wade Boggs

Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Wade Boggs

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.
Tony Blair

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
Tony Blair

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair

I would’ve loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn’t good enough.
Tony Blair

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.
Tony Blair

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
Tony Blair

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.
Tony Blair

In Downing Street they called me ‘Boss’. Civil servants would always call me ‘Prime Minister’.
Tony Blair

This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.
Tony Blair

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.
Tony Blair

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it’s an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
Tony Blair

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
Tony Blair

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
Tony Blair

I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.
Tony Blair

Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is… everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.
Tony Blair

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.
Tony Blair

Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome.
Sherwood Boehlert

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.
Sherwood Boehlert

Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.
Sherwood Boehlert

And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings.
Sherwood Boehlert

The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour’s labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.
Sherwood Boehlert

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.
Sherwood Boehlert

Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse.
Sherwood Boehlert

First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.
Sherwood Boehlert

So the only way we’re going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it.
Sherwood Boehlert

Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.
Sherwood Boehlert

So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.
Sherwood Boehlert

The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year’s end, 21 States across America will have a minimum wage exceeding the Federal minimum wage.
Sherwood Boehlert

We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future.
Sherwood Boehlert

About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks.
Sherwood Boehlert

For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry.
Sherwood Boehlert

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.
Sherwood Boehlert

I don’t see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only effective tool we have as a nation to make a dent in our dangerous and ever growing consumption of oil.
Sherwood Boehlert

It’s great playing someone who is not like me at all. I’m really a nice girl, so it’s fun to be a bitch, then come home and be myself again. When I meet people now, they’re surprised that I’m a good person.
Rachel Bilson

My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley’s GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
Rachel Bilson

The more aware a man is of a woman’s body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first.
Rachel Bilson

When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!
Rachel Bilson

Y’know what? This is what I go by: It doesn’t matter how good-looking a guy is, it just depends on his personality. If a guy can make you laugh and make fun of you, then that’s what would win me over. So, yeah.
Rachel Bilson

A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.
Rachel Bilson

I know of my sex appeal. I know about sexuality, and I know how to use it – tastefully, of course.
Rachel Bilson

You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.
Rachel Bilson

My next adventure will be being in a car with Mischa at the wheel.
Rachel Bilson

That’s a rule in the business. No tongue. You can’t really get into it, otherwise, it’s weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.
Rachel Bilson

Marriage has just never interested me.
Jacqueline Bisset

Not everyone likes watching rushes, but it makes me work harder, and I don’t feel I am watching myself, but watching the progression of the character.
Jacqueline Bisset

Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.
Jacqueline Bisset

The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn.
Jacqueline Bisset

I’ve probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
Jacqueline Bisset

At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.
Jacqueline Bisset

Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.
Jacqueline Bisset

Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears are more open to someone who is not a cantankerous bastard.
Jacqueline Bisset

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Jacqueline Bisset

My view is quite simple. When your dog pees on the carpet, you do not give away your dog. You say, This dog is special. I have to teach him not to pee on the carpet. I feel exactly the same way about men. They need to be taught things.
Jacqueline Bisset

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don’t have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.
Jacqueline Bisset

To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.
Jacqueline Bisset

We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.
Jacqueline Bisset

Your voice is your tool and represents you. It’s very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.
Jacqueline Bisset

When I am working on a movie, all I want to talk about is the movie. All I want to be with are the movie people. It’s like a clan. If I’m asked to people’s houses for dinner, I hate to go, because they’ll talk about other things.
Jacqueline Bisset

You need to become a good listener. As you’re working, you hear someone else’s lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.
Jacqueline Bisset

I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective towards me and never came on to me sexually.
Jacqueline Bisset

There’s something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.
Jacqueline Bisset

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.
Jacqueline Bisset

Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.
Jacqueline Bisset

When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it’s very addictive.
Jacqueline Bisset

I’m saddened to see that everyone’s pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can’t be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn’t mean that we can’t listen to jazz.
Don Bluth

There’s about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it’s all about the game play.
Don Bluth

Usually with things, you go where you can find the financing to do it.
Don Bluth

We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything.
Don Bluth

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that’s the best of both worlds – and I’ll use those computers!
Don Bluth

The studios will go wherever they smell money. It’s like sharks to the blood.
Don Bluth

We’d love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers.
Don Bluth

In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren’t computer people, and the computer people usually aren’t the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line.
Don Bluth

The only one that seems to be able to hold the business is Disney. They do it is because they have a fabulous philosophy about marketing- but even they wavered.
Don Bluth

We’re waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.
Don Bluth

It’s whatever sells; it’s the business of it.
Don Bluth

The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things… Anything outside that, they just don’t know what to do with it.
Don Bluth

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don’t understand animation, things can go awry.
Don Bluth

You’ve got to be able to make animation for much less… Less is not the studio’s way.
Don Bluth

With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story.
Don Bluth

You just can’t keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It’s got to be a business.
Don Bluth

But I’ve been surprised over the years. I mean, someone told me the other day that maybe 360 million people have played this game in the world. That’s a lot of people.
Don Bluth

Dragon’s Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.
Don Bluth

How can you have a director that doesn’t go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?
Don Bluth

I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn’t make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?
Don Bluth

As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director’s job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.
Don Bluth

Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they’re not discerning about whether it looks great or it’s a great story or anything.
Don Bluth

I have never seen a game’s graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.
Don Bluth

Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them – the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome.
Don Bluth

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.
Don Bluth

Reese Witherspoon. She’s sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she’s smart.
Don Bluth

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.
Don Bluth

Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that’s it.
Don Bluth

Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.
Matt Blunt

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.
Matt Blunt

If you’re opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you’re for a tax increase.
Matt Blunt

The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent.
Matt Blunt

In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now we inaugurate a new government on a day that transcends any one individual or any one party.
Matt Blunt

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
Matt Blunt

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.
Matt Blunt

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.
Matt Blunt

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
Matt Blunt

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.
Matt Blunt

The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire – the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain.
Helena Petrova Blavatsky

You’ve got to be fine with who you are.
Corbin Bleu

Everybody at school knew who I was because I’m just a really friendly person.
Corbin Bleu

I’m a very outgoing person. I’m always happy, I’m one of those people who are always smiling. If somebody described me to somebody else, they’d say the kid with the curly hair with the big smile on his face. I get along with everybody.
Corbin Bleu

Kids look up to me, and it’s really incredible to be in that position.
Corbin Bleu

Everyone is different, but I’m not standoffish at all. I’m not one of those people who prefer to write a note. I’ll walk right up to you and ask you out! Even if the answer’s no, I’m totally cool with it.
Corbin Bleu

I am a very open, social, friendly person, and when it comes to people approaching me and asking for an autograph, I am totally cool with doing any of that. It’s a lot of fun.
Corbin Bleu

My favorite show is America’s Funniest Home Videos. People will get hit on the head and I feel bad cause I’m laughing my head off!
Corbin Bleu

I was the lead in two musicals, and I took dance classes.
Corbin Bleu

It’s OK showing yourself some love.
Mary J. Blige

‘My Life’ is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.
Mary J. Blige

Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.
Mary J. Blige

You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.
Mary J. Blige

I don’t think I’ll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.
Mary J. Blige

Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial!
Mary J. Blige

When I was a child I didn’t care about getting an education, and I didn’t finish high school.
Mary J. Blige

I listen to gospel music.
Mary J. Blige

Music makes us want to live. You don’t know how many times people have told me that they’d been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That’s the power music has.
Mary J. Blige

As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me – Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.
Mary J. Blige

I’m striving toward this acting thing. I’m definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I’m gonna work hard on it.
Mary J. Blige

For the first time in my life, I’m proud of myself.
Mary J. Blige

God comes first – if I don’t love him, I can’t love anybody, and if I can’t love me I can’t love nobody.
Mary J. Blige

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.
Mary J. Blige

My first album is playful.
Mary J. Blige

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I’ve overcome it.
Mary J. Blige

I’ve just been growing right along. It’s painful, but it’s a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It’s like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you’re looking so hot.
Mary J. Blige

We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches.
Franz Boas

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
Franz Boas

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.
Franz Boas

This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning.
Franz Boas

In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party.
Franz Boas

Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth.
Franz Boas

Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.
Franz Boas

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
Franz Boas

It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.
Franz Boas

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.
Franz Boas

We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes.
Franz Boas

Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered.
Franz Boas

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.
Franz Boas

Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that.
Brian Boitano

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I’ve done after that is really because of the Olympics.
Brian Boitano

So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching a short program. Everyone was doing exactly the same elements.
Brian Boitano

That’s what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.
Brian Boitano

Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in ’88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.
Brian Boitano

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.
Brian Boitano

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.
Brian Boitano

Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it’s just one mistake.
Brian Boitano

For me, romance isn’t an over-the-top act. It’s someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I’m making the wrong decision, he’ll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.
Thora Birch

The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
Larry Bird

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
Larry Bird

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Larry Bird

I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
Larry Bird

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It’s being able to take it as well as dish it out. That’s the only way you’re going to get respect from the players.
Larry Bird

The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
Larry Bird

I really don’t like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
Larry Bird

What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
Larry Bird

As far as playing, I didn’t care who guarded me – red, yellow, black. I just didn’t want a white guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game.
Larry Bird

It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
Larry Bird

But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
Larry Bird

I don’t know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
Larry Bird

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you’re ready to play as tough as you’re able to, you’d better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you’re not giving it all you’ve got.
Larry Bird

Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.
Larry Bird

I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Larry Bird

I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
Larry Bird

The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
Larry Bird

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
Larry Bird

If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she’d get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don’t mean she wouldn’t pay the bank, but the children always came first.
Larry Bird

Never trust anyone who wants what you’ve got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
Eubie Blake

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind – listen to the birds. And don’t hate nobody.
Eubie Blake

I don’t have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they’re all right for me.
Eubie Blake

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake

One thought fills immensity.
William Blake

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
William Blake

Christ’s crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.
William Blake

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
William Blake

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
William Blake

Do what you will, this world’s a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
William Blake

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
William Blake

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
William Blake

Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief?
William Blake

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
William Blake

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
William Blake

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
William Blake

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
William Blake

Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.
William Blake

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
William Blake

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
William Blake

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William Blake

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
William Blake

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
William Blake

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
William Blake

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
William Blake

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
William Blake

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
William Blake

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
William Blake

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake

Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
William Blake

Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake

Opposition is true friendship.
William Blake

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
William Blake

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
William Blake

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
William Blake

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake

What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
William Blake

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.
William Blake

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
William Blake

I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry.
Steve Blake

We have views on social issues that may seem to some that we are hard-line Tories. However our economics policies and our opposition to the process called globalisation could be considered by some to place us on the far-left of conventional politics.
Steve Blake

Today a racist is synonymous with race hatred. Hating someone is a pretty unpleasant thing and few people are capable of hating others. Long-term hatred is a pathological disorder.
Steve Blake

We embrace policies that have, first and foremost, the continued survival of the British people at their core, and in that respect I think we are beyond left and right.
Steve Blake

Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU.
Steve Blake

We have to withdraw from this undemocratic institution and ensure that these people no longer have any influence on British affairs. We would like to see other European nations do the same thing. I think that will happen.
Steve Blake
I am a passionate believer that Britain has benefited the whole world and that our heritage, our culture, our values and more importantly our people who created those things, are worth fighting for.
Steve Blake

We have a set of sensible policies that are appropriate for the 21st century and which strike a chord of appeal with the silent majority. Perhaps that is why we are welcoming new members every week who have never before been involved in politics.
Steve Blake

The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted.
Robert Blake

I’m a human being, I’m not a machine. I’m 72. I’m dyslexic.
Robert Blake

What are they going to do to me that they haven’t done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What’s left for them to take?
Robert Blake

I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized.
Robert Blake

Don’t give it to the audience; leave it to the audience.
Robert Blake

I came to the conclusion that the very best thing for Rosie, from the time she was 2 weeks old, was for us to get married.
Robert Blake

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
Otto von Bismarck

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Otto von Bismarck

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it’s course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
Otto von Bismarck

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
Otto von Bismarck

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Otto von Bismarck

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto von Bismarck

Politics ruins the character.
Otto von Bismarck

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
Otto von Bismarck

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
Otto von Bismarck

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
Otto von Bismarck

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
Otto von Bismarck

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn’t the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Otto von Bismarck

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
Otto von Bismarck

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
Otto von Bismarck

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
Otto von Bismarck

Politics is the art of the possible.
Otto von Bismarck

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
Otto von Bismarck

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
Otto von Bismarck

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Otto von Bismarck

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Otto von Bismarck

Politics is the art of the next best.
Otto von Bismarck

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
Otto von Bismarck

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
Jeff Bezos

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.
Jeff Bezos

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
Jeff Bezos

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you’re good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
Jeff Bezos

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business.
Jeff Bezos

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
Jeff Bezos

But there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.
Jeff Bezos

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
Jeff Bezos

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren’t thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about – they weren’t putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
Jeff Bezos

This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.
Andrew Bogut

A lot of rookies hit the wall after 50 or 60 games.
Andrew Bogut

I’m for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai’i now and putting them in concentration camps.
Francis Biddle

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.
Derek Bok

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.
Derek Bok

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.
Derek Bok

I won’t say there aren’t any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.
Derek Bok

I am interested in the art. I’m a professional woman.
Claire Bloom

Security has no place in the life of an actress.
Claire Bloom

I don’t think actresses’ lives in general are very good.
Claire Bloom

There are several paths one can take, but not every path is open to you.
Claire Bloom

I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.
Claire Bloom

I’ve spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.
Claire Bloom

When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.
Claire Bloom

In my day, people didn’t do nude scenes. I mean they didn’t exist.
Claire Bloom

My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.
Claire Bloom

You can’t pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can’t fake that.
Claire Bloom

No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.
Bonnie Blair

I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.
Bonnie Blair

The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.
Bonnie Blair

Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve ever done before.
Bonnie Blair

I’m definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.
Bonnie Blair

Space exploration and experimentation are critically valuable to our nation. I know of no better way to honor those seven who sacrificed their lives than to recommit ourselves to defend and enhance America’s important strategies in space.
Rob Bishop

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It’s a callous political game.
Rob Bishop

I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life.
Rob Bishop

I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.
Lionel Blue

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!
Lionel Blue

Old friends die on you, and they’re irreplaceable. You become dependent.
Lionel Blue

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
Lionel Blue

To change, to convert? Why bother?
Lionel Blue

It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.
Lionel Blue

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
Lionel Blue

For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.
Lionel Blue

I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.
Lionel Blue

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.
Lionel Blue

Christianity had two faces which bewildered me – two pictures which didn’t fit.
Lionel Blue

I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.
Lionel Blue

In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.
Lionel Blue

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.
Lionel Blue

For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.
Lionel Blue

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
Lionel Blue

Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.
Lionel Blue

It’s more fun to watch without joining in.
Lionel Blue

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I’ve begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I’ve had it good and am crumbling nicely.
Lionel Blue

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.
Lionel Blue

So many plusses, so many minuses.
Lionel Blue

Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.
Lionel Blue

Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.
Lionel Blue

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.
Lionel Blue

What would I have done if I’d been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.
Lionel Blue

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn’t wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.
Lionel Blue

My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.
Lionel Blue

On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.
Lionel Blue

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.
Lionel Blue

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.
Lionel Blue

This Christian poison hasn’t stopped yet.
Lionel Blue

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
Lionel Blue

I’m learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.
Traci Bingham

We’re actually building onto the house to make it bigger because we want to start a family.
Traci Bingham

I can’t live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.
Traci Bingham

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
Allan Bloom

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
Allan Bloom

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
Allan Bloom

The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.
Allan Bloom

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.
Allan Bloom

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
Allan Bloom

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
Allan Bloom

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
Allan Bloom

Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
Allan Bloom

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise… specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
Allan Bloom

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
Allan Bloom

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
Allan Bloom

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.
Allan Bloom

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency – the belief that the here and now is all there is.
Allan Bloom

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.
Allan Bloom

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.
Allan Bloom

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
Allan Bloom

What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists – whatever else they might be – might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions.
William Blum

America’s state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that “treason” is morally worse than murder or rape.
William Blum

Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.
William Blum

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn’t have an air force.
William Blum

Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism.
Sidney Blumenthal

Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism.
Sidney Blumenthal

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.
Sidney Blumenthal

It wasn’t simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country’s history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%.
Sidney Blumenthal

On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration’s complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.
Sidney Blumenthal

The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.
Sidney Blumenthal

What happened to the Bush Administration regarding terrorism is that they regarded it as a secondary issue, and associated with Clinton. One of those Clinton issues.
Sidney Blumenthal

It’s absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.
Sidney Blumenthal

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.
Sidney Blumenthal

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.
Sidney Blumenthal

We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings.
Sidney Blumenthal

Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House.
Sidney Blumenthal

If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn’t let Louie Freeh off the hook.
Sidney Blumenthal

As I said, if you don’t stand up for yourself, people aren’t going to think that you can stand up for them.
Sidney Blumenthal

The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we’ve fallen, and how we’ve declined under Bush.
Sidney Blumenthal

But presidents matter. That’s one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.
Sidney Blumenthal

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.
Sidney Blumenthal

22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush.
Sidney Blumenthal

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.
Sidney Blumenthal

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.
Sidney Blumenthal

At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy.
Sidney Blumenthal

Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.
Marsha Blackburn

Madam Speaker, it is time to halt illegal entry into this country. It is time to halt the flow of illegal drugs and weapons into this great Nation, and it is time to secure our borders.
Marsha Blackburn

Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart.
Marsha Blackburn

On energy, we should be exploring for domestic sources of energy.
Marsha Blackburn

Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.
Marsha Blackburn

Every town has become a border town and every State has become a border State.
Marsha Blackburn

Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.
Marsha Blackburn

I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say that, but one of my favorite remarks he ever made was that when you look at Federal programs, there is nothing so close to eternal life on Earth as a Federal Government program.
Marsha Blackburn

Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America’s entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s.
Marsha Blackburn

We must be certain that we all realize that our enemy is not an enemy that is located in one single place. There are terrorist cells all around the globe.
Marsha Blackburn

I think that, on the reconciliation issue, if they had the votes, we wouldn’t have had the summit. And if they try to go through reconciliation, it will be a change in semantics. Instead of the American people saying ‘stop the bill’ or ‘kill the bill,’ it’s all going to be about repealing the bill. That’s not the kind of discussion that they want.
Marsha Blackburn

Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig out of a recession and get back to work.
Marsha Blackburn

This majority is working for America, and one of those ways is we have tremendously low unemployment. This economy has created millions of new jobs, and we are expecting growth this first quarter of somewhere higher than 4 percent.
Marsha Blackburn

We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let’s begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation.
Marsha Blackburn

Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war.
Marsha Blackburn

Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we’ve fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer funded benefits. The American people are far closer to our Republican approach to border security than they are to Nancy Pelosi’s approach.
Marsha Blackburn

This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as the gentleman from Georgia has mentioned, this is not something that is going to be quick and easy.
Marsha Blackburn

If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I’m sorry, I don’t believe that’s America.
Karen Black

I love playing strong women, even if they’re nuts.
Karen Black

If you didn’t know that I am an actress, I don’t think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She’s 16, so of course I bore her.
Karen Black

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.
Karen Black

There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Karen Black

I love what I do, so it’s not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I’d be dead in a week.
Karen Black

If you can write it, I can be it.
Karen Black

It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.
Harry A. Blackmun

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.
Harry A. Blackmun

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
Harry A. Blackmun

I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
Harry A. Blackmun

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
Harry A. Blackmun

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution’s protection of privacy.
Harry A. Blackmun

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.
Harry A. Blackmun

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
Harry A. Blackmun

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
Harry A. Blackmun

Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.
Edmund Blunden

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
Countess of Blessington

I would endeavour to deserve my life, Sire.
Thomas Blood

Because I love football and I love the footballers.
Sepp Blatter

It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.
Sepp Blatter

Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team?
Sepp Blatter

Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.
Sepp Blatter

There is a movement in club football, which I don’t necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa.
Sepp Blatter

What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it.
Sepp Blatter

FIFA’s goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone – equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal.
Sepp Blatter

I have no problem with G14. How can I oppose something that as far as I am concerned, does not exist?
Sepp Blatter

What we have to do is to find a solution that the interests of the national teams are respecting the interests of the clubs. And also the clubs they shall respect the interests and the aspirations of national teams.
Sepp Blatter

Yes, in general, I think there is too much club football on TV.
Sepp Blatter

Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team?
Sepp Blatter

It’s up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.
Sepp Blatter

Liverpool have won everything but never a World Championship. I am sure in the future they will once again make the effort to win the tournament. They have had good rhythm in the Premier League this season.
Sepp Blatter

I am like the little rock n’ roll backseat driver.
Nina Blackwood

Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.
Nina Blackwood

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.
Nina Blackwood

The thing that they were more freaked out was that I had done a spread for Playboy years before, and as Playboy always does, they exploit the exploitation and re-release different pictures.
Nina Blackwood

We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N’ Roll Mystery Tour.
Nina Blackwood

I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV.
Nina Blackwood

Now that the 90′s are over and more time has gone by, the 80′s sound fresh again.
Nina Blackwood

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.
Nina Blackwood

People that really know me will tell you that I am not a video vixen.
Nina Blackwood

The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.
Nina Blackwood

Absolute 80′s is three hours of mainstream 80′s music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is more punk stuff from the 70′s to the 90′s.
Nina Blackwood

I have two syndicated radio shows though United Stations Radio Network.
Nina Blackwood

Because I was the blonde, I was promoted as the video vixen.
Nina Blackwood

Christopher Guest movies are my top of the line favorites.
Nina Blackwood

First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.
Nina Blackwood

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people’s stories.
Nina Blackwood

The heyday of video music was the mid 80′s.
Nina Blackwood

I’m a little bit to the left of things anyway.
Nina Blackwood

When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartney’s press conference.
Nina Blackwood

Didn’t the other guys tell you? Nobody dunks on Manute B-O-L!
Manute Bol

God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.
Manute Bol

I love my family.
Manute Bol

I’ve gone to war zones before and never got shot.
Manute Bol

If God wants to take my left arm, that’s OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I’m a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.
Manute Bol

I’d like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can’t do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It’s kind of tough.
Manute Bol

There’s a lot of bad things going on but I didn’t do nothing.
Manute Bol

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.
Jayson Blair

In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
Harold Bloom

Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don’t see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
Harold Bloom

No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.
Harold Bloom

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.
Harold Bloom

Criticism starts – it has to start – with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.
Harold Bloom

I don’t believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
Harold Bloom

Shakespeare is universal.
Harold Bloom

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
Harold Bloom

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves… he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
Harold Bloom

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
Harold Bloom

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
Harold Bloom

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
Harold Bloom

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
Harold Bloom

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
Harold Bloom

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
Harold Bloom

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
Harold Bloom

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I’m told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society… but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.
Harold Bloom

Criticism in the universities, I’ll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It’s Stalinism without Stalin.
Harold Bloom

If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
Harold Bloom

I wanted to be the perfect artist. I’d do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I’d sign autographs after the show until everybody left.
Clint Black

Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think.
Clint Black

I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There’s still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven’t been explained in song.
Clint Black

The President and the Democrats on Congress have exploited the financial crisis to advance their socialist big government tax, spend and borrow agenda.
Bradley A. Blakeman

We are at war with enemies that still have the intent to do further damage to Americans at home and abroad.
Bradley A. Blakeman

For every expert that says humans are the cause of “climate change” there are 10 more who say we aren’t.
Bradley A. Blakeman

What is the source of all this trouble? I’m saying that the source is basically in thought. Many people would think that such a statement is crazy, because thought is the one thing we have with which to solve our problems. That’s part of our tradition.
David Bohm

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It’s like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%.
David Bohm

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.
David Bohm

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.
David Bohm

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call ‘sustained incoherence.
David Bohm

But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent – not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.
David Bohm

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.
David Bohm

My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.
David Bohm

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn’t know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn’t want to know that it is doing it.
David Bohm

We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.
David Bohm

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.
David Bohm

People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.
David Bohm

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society – as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.
David Bohm

A corporation is organized as a system – it has this department, that department, that department… they don’t have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.
David Bohm

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.
David Bohm

But you don’t decide what to do with the info. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us.
David Bohm

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.
David Bohm

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.
David Bohm

A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.
David Bohm

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.
David Bohm

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
David Bohm

Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.
David Bohm

I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big – it has been a big passion for me.
Andrea Bocelli

All that counts in life is intention.
Andrea Bocelli

Because I practice often with my children at home.
Andrea Bocelli

I have big, big stage fright.
Andrea Bocelli

Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.
Andrea Bocelli

Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder.
Andrea Bocelli

You can be great only if it is your destiny.
Andrea Bocelli

When you sing and people want that you sing, then you can hope to be great.
Andrea Bocelli

It’s true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger.
Andrea Bocelli

Now I’m more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.
Andrea Bocelli

Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.
Andrea Bocelli

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That’s a flameout I could get used to.
Conrad Black

I do not at all have the mind of a bully… in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.
Conrad Black

At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
Earl Blumenauer

Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting.
Earl Blumenauer

Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests.
Earl Blumenauer

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.
Earl Blumenauer

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.
Earl Blumenauer

We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.
Earl Blumenauer

Everybody on this floor wants to send the same loud and clear message: that Congress is united in its opposition to terror and we are all deeply concerned about the future and security of our close friend and ally, Israel.
Earl Blumenauer

A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.
Earl Blumenauer

Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens.
Earl Blumenauer

The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don’t have to participate.
Earl Blumenauer

We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.
Earl Blumenauer

Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq.
Earl Blumenauer

Judy, we think that since the 11th of September, 2001, we’ve faced a similar heightened threat level. And we’ve been enhancing both the exchange of intelligence and security information and the assessment of that information, because that’s the crucial element.
David Blunkett

I said it’s impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don’t have any incentives for people to actually come up front and register, and make themselves available, and secondly you have no means of tracking them.
David Blunkett

And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadn’t taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time.
David Blunkett

But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.
David Blunkett

I don’t think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private.
David Blunkett

Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people’s confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.
David Blunkett

That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today.
David Blunkett

I have always been honest about my recollection of events.
David Blunkett

When I’m in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!
David Blunkett

Yes, it will go through the disciplines that all puppies go through including house training and puppy walking, then at twelve month old it the training becomes a lot more rigorous which has to be done carefully otherwise you are in danger of stressing the dog.
David Blunkett

I love the walk although my security team weren’t too sure to begin with but I was anxious to be able to lead a near normal life. Whilst walking I do get the chance to meet people and keep in touch.
David Blunkett

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.
Boethius

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Boethius

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
Boethius

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
Boethius

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
Boethius

A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
Alice Stone Blackwell

Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.
William Bligh

On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses.
William Bligh

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.
William Bligh

Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.
William Bligh

There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.
William Bligh

In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.
William Bligh

On the 28th the ship’s company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen’s, where we were obliged to anchor.
William Bligh

The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.
William Bligh

Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.
William Bligh

The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.
William Bligh

Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.
William Bligh

The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.
William Bligh

All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.
William Bligh

It’s a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you’re surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
Vida Blue

Sometimes in this game it’s as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
Vida Blue

I keep telling myself, don’t get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.
Vida Blue

I’m very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock – though only if it’s sophisticated and has some thought behind it.
Ritchie Blackmore

When I was 20, I didn’t give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.
Ritchie Blackmore

Jimi… He was the gov’nor and that’s it. He was brilliant, wasn’t he?
Ritchie Blackmore

Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He’s very underrated.
Ritchie Blackmore

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.
Ritchie Blackmore

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He’s overrated.
Ritchie Blackmore

When something is not good, it’s bad. Period.
Ritchie Blackmore

If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.
Ritchie Blackmore

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.
Ritchie Blackmore

Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous.
Ritchie Blackmore

I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.
Ritchie Blackmore

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They’re always going out of tune.
Ritchie Blackmore

Session work makes you more strict. You can’t hit notes all over the place. You’ve got to make each one really count.
Ritchie Blackmore

When you’ve toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you’re always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag.
Ritchie Blackmore

Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that’s what caught everybody’s attention. As a player, he didn’t do anything amazing.
Ritchie Blackmore

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
Ritchie Blackmore

What’s the point of re-releasing an album? The original sounded good, why change something about it?
Ritchie Blackmore

I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he’s pure showbusiness.
Ritchie Blackmore

The only way you can get good, unless you’re a genius, is to copy. That’s the best thing. Just steal.
Ritchie Blackmore

You see so many movies… the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there’s no sense of film grammar. There’s no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It’s just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.
Peter Bogdanovich

But at a certain point, and I don’t really know… people have asked me this. I don’t know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.
Peter Bogdanovich

One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to.
Peter Bogdanovich

The Exorcist has been a very interesting cross to bear.
Linda Blair

To ignore one’s spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That’s a very profound outlook on it.
Linda Blair

When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end – I’d had enough of it. And that was right about the time that we got a call for “The Exorcist” interview.
Linda Blair

If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn’t be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.
Linda Blair

It’s difficult to understand why people don’t realize that pets are gifts to mankind.
Linda Blair

One of the reasons I don’t have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You’re still asking me questions about The Exorcist.
Linda Blair

People always joke that “dog” spells “god” backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.
Linda Blair

The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.
Linda Blair

There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others.
Linda Blair

I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That’s why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.
Linda Blair

Kids shouldn’t see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn’t care.
Linda Blair

Of all the projects I’ve worked on, I’ve never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he’s a genius.
Linda Blair