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The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.

I feel really blessed because of where I come from.

I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.

I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the sides.

An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

I always laugh at these rock n'rollers where you can't understand them. Mind you, it's not because they're inaudible or indistinguishable; it's because they're too obscure.

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.