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When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.

All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work.

Es gibt niemals genug "Ich liebe dich"s.

There are never enough I Love You's.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

Monday Night Football. That was everything to me because you get a chance to show everybody what you're capable of. It's only two teams on that Monday night.

Ich mache keine Diät. Ich esse Fisch, ich esse frittiertes Hähnchen, Spaghetti, Bohnen. Wenn der Körper einem sagt, 'Das musst du essen', muss man dem Körper geben, was er will.

I don't diet. I'll eat fish; I'll eat baked chicken, pasta, beans. When the body is telling you, 'You need to indulge in something,' you need to give the body what it wants.

Ich möchte die Menschen erleuchten.

I would like to enlighten people.

Der Gedanke, dass man ein besseres Leben führen kann, ist unauslöschlich in unsere Herzen und Köpfe verwoben.

The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

This is how I started playing: I was playing hooky one day, and the coach and the principal walked up behind me. They scared me, and I ran, and they noticed I could run really fast. They wanted me to come out for the football team.

Jedes Jahr an seinem Geburtstag hat man die Chance, neu anzufangen.

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.

Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

Musik zu erfahren, indem man über sie liest, ist als würde man auf dem Postweg miteinander Liebe machen.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

Reichtümer erfreuen uns nicht so sehr durch ihren Besitz, wie sie uns durch ihren Verlust quälen.

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.

Poesie ist eine Kunst, die für jeden erreichbar ist: Ein Blatt Papier und ein Stift und schon kann es los gehen.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.

Kunst ist immer für jeden und für niemanden gedacht.

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Ich suche nicht nach Poesie. Ich warte darauf, dass die Poesie mich besucht.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.

Wenn man mit umwerfenden Menschen arbeitet, entwickelt man sich weiter, als Schauspieler und als Mensch.

Working with amazing people, you continue to learn and develop yourself, as an actor and as a person.

Ich liebe Hunde.

I love dogs.

I'm so excited. I love Peeta so much. I think that over the course of the next couple of books, he has so many interesting places to go to, character-wise. I'm ready to dive full-force into it. When I saw the movie actually, it got me energized. 'Let's go get some cameras! Let's go shoot the second one right now!'

I don't think I've had love at first sight. But, I've definitely had moments where I've seen a person, and I'm like, 'Wow, there is something different about you, and I really want to get to know you.'

T-shirt and jeans style now is where I'm at. Maybe a little rock 'n' roll T-shirt and jeans.

Wenn Arbeit etwas Gutes wäre, würden die Reichen sie für sich behalten und dir nichts davon abgeben.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

Ich versuche die Stellen wegzulassen, die meine Leser überspringen.

I try to leave out the parts readers skip.

Having a solo career is a funny thing.

The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.

When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.

I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps could become your sound, too. I did that with Hemingway, and I thought I was writing just like Hemingway. Then all of a sudden it occurred to me - he didn't have a sense of humor. I don't know anything he's written that's funny.

I don't have any of the modern electronics at all. I know the Internet would be a distraction. I would see things that interested me and never get back to writing.

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.

Reject what you don't want. Get rid of dead wood.

There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees. And there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living.

As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.