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What's the difference between a pickpocket and a peeping tom? A pickpocket snatches watches.

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• If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Job
  • Think
  • Right

• I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Two

• Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still like to sit down and have dinner with them as much as I can.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Son

• I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • Life
  • Music
  • Family

• A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Best

• No man can add one dollar to his bank account by worrying.

  

  Vash Young
  • Man
  • Bank
  • Dollar

• Many years ago, but not so long ago, there were those who said, 'Well, you have three strikes against you: You're black, you're blind and you're poor,' But God said to me, 'I will make you rich in the spirit of inspiration, to inspire others as well as create music to encourage the world to a place of oneness and hope, and positivity.' I believed Him and not them.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Experience
  • Personality
  • Actor

• The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Up
  • Words
  • Desire

• Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.

  

  L. M. Boyd
  • Chinese
  • Firsts
  • Knives

• You can help me by advancing equality, supporting arts and education, and saving this goddamn planet.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Help
  • Education
  • Equality

• Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Speech

• You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses, and he wears a beret. He is French, people.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Why
  • America

• The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Person
  • Villain
  • Cares

• If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever just be.-- Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Guy
  • Imagination
  • Brain

• The truth is that I've always been fascinated with wealth in America. To me, it's been about the American dream and the corruption of that dream.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Truth
  • American
  • America

• I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.

  

  Catherine the Great
  • Praise
  • Loud
  • Whisper

• Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Blood
  • Name
  • Differences

• What's the difference between a pickpocket and a peeping tom? A pickpocket snatches watches.

  

  Redd Foxx
  • Differences
  • Watches
  • Peeping