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"Remember: If you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm." - Audrey Hepburn

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." - Audrey Hepburn

"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone." - Audrey Hepburn

"It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?" - Bud Abbott

"I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past." - Clara Barton

"I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay." - Clara Barton

"The surest test of discipline is its absence." - Clara Barton

"I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?" - Clara Barton

"With liberty and justice for all." Francis Bellamy

"I do not know how to kiss or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?" - Ingrid Bergman

"I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say." - Ingrid Bergman

"We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false." - Ingrid Bergman

"Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying." - Ingrid Bergman

"Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people on the whole aren't much smarter." - Louise Brooks, 1906-1985

"Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead." - Louise Brooks, 1906-1985

"I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act." - Louise Brooks, 1906-1985

"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese." - Billie Burke

"To survive there you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony." - Billie Burke

"Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down." - Kirk Douglas

"I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want." - Renee Fleming

"The great have no friends. They merely know a lot of people." - Ruth Gordon

"The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?" - Ruth Gordon

"The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions: most of them were quiet. wetting their lips. not looking around." - Shirley Jackson from The Lottery

"America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling." - Al Lewis

"Everything is viable, but don't expect results." - Al Lewis

"I met Manson in front of the Whiskey-A-Go-Go on Sunset Boulevard. He sat for four or five hours. He amused the kids, he brought the guitar and he played. No big deal, no sweat. That's how I met Charlie Manson. He wanted to be in the music business. He babysat my three kids." - Al Lewis

"I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings. I think people should live in there." - Al Lewis

"My mother used to say, in broken English: This is a big world. When you go out there's millions of people ready to kick you in the a**. Don't bend down to accomodate them." - Al Lewis

"The ruling class is smarter than you and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been." - Al Lewis

"We used to have a saying: If you don't get the a**es of the masses out in the street, forget it." And if you get enough of them out there the ruling class gets scared. That's the only thing they're afraid of, numbers. Numbers!" - Al Lewis

"People say what they want and do what they do" - Jason Olshefsky

"Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out you haven't wasted the whole day." - Mickey Rooney

"Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after." - Mickey Rooney

"Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!" - Wendy O. Williams

"It seems to me that for over two thousand years now mad-men, maniacs, and would be messiahs have been pilfering, have been pillaging, have been plundering, and have been raping the entire planet. And the way I see it, Mother Nature is getting pretty pissed off." - Lydia Lunch

"What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't." - Cab Calloway

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them." - Frederick Douglass

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false and to incur my own abhorrence." - Frederick Douglass

"When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind." - Frederick Douglass

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe." - Frederick Douglass

"Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me." - Taye Diggs

"Discipline is freedom." - Garth Fagan

"What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are." - George Eastman

"Women make natural anarchists." - Kim Gordon

"In nature reality is selection." - Kim Gordon

"There's something in the air there, makes you go insane." - Kim Gordon

"I grew up in a shotgun row sliding down the hill. Out front were the big machines." - Kim Gordon

"Close your eyes and pretend this is how it should end." - Kim Gordon

"I said it before and I'll say it again: I'm so happy we're just friends." - Kim Gordon

"I wear the pants around here!" - Joanie Laurer

"So many women out there are smart and have potential and they base their worth on whether men find them attractive or not. There's no reason why you can't go out there and get noticed for something else." - Joanie Laurer

"There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army." - John Ashbery

""I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience." - John Ashbery

"Too often when you thought you'd be showered with confetti what they flung at you was a plate of hot spaghetti." - John Ashbery

"There is no way out of the problem of pathos vs. experience." - John Ashbery

"Such simple things, and we make of them something so complex it defeats us." - John Ashbery

"And the serial continues: Pain, expiation, delight, more pain. A frieze that lengthens continually." - John Ashbery

"Life is not at all what you might think it to be, a simple tale where each thing has its history. It's much more than its scuffle and anything goes." - John Ashbery

"It's this crazy weather we've been having: Falling forward one minute, lying down the next." - John Ashbery

"The rare, uninteresting specimen might still be putting out shoots, for all we know." - John Ashbery

"In a far recess of summer, monks are playing soccer." - John Ashbery

"There was calm rapture in the way she spoke. Perhaps I would get over the way the joke always turned against me in the end." - John Ashbery

"I love any vast electrical disturbance." - John Ashbery

"Love: Two minds without a single thought." - Philip Barry

"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." - Francis Pharcellus Church

"Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see." - Francis Pharcellus Church

"You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside." - Francis Pharcellus Church

"In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect." - Francis Pharcellus Church

"I do try to be resentful, I really do, but I just can't bring myself to do it." - Robert Forster

"When I signed a contract to be the Mega Lo Mart spokesman, I didn't read it carefully. I have to be at every store opening and they open 400 stores a year. I haven't had time to record, or tour, or give my old lady any slow sweet lovin' in years. So I disappeared to the last place they'd ever look for me. I've been living here rent-free, eating their Cheerios, playing their video games and trying on their underpants. Anything to stick it to the Man." - Chuck Mangione

"Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad." - Mitch Miller

""It's not music, it's a disease!" - Mitch Miller on rock & roll music.

"The size of my head, though, is pretty abnormal." - Philip Seymour Hoffman

"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." - Philip Seymour Hoffman

"The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do." - Philip Seymour Hoffman

"People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside." - Philip Seymour Hoffman

"A lot of people describe me as chubby, which seems so easy, so first-choice. Or stocky. Fair-skinned. Tow-headed. There are so many other choices. How about dense? I mean, I'm a thick kind of guy. But I'm never described in attractive ways. I'm waiting for somebody to say I'm at least cute. But nobody has." - Philip Seymour Hoffman

"Sometimes I'm working on a film and someone will ask me if I'm having fun. And I'm tempted to tell them the truth: No, absolutely not. Having no fun here at all. You know what's going to be fun? When it's done and I've done a f***ing good job." - Philip Seymour Hoffman

"He lives to feed the beast and it gets him farther away from reality, intimacy and life." - Philip Seymour Hoffman

"I went in and started ranting and raving and they were laughing their a***s off. I was petrified, but I figured at least they laughed a lot." - Philip Seymour Hoffman

""I lead a pretty boring life. I once met an editor from the National Enquirer who said to me, almost apologetically, 'I'm sorry, but we're really not interested in you.' I'm afraid that's true." - John Lithgow

"Our elections are free. It's in the results where eventually we pay." - Bill Stern

"Independence is happiness." - Susan B. Anthony

"Failure is impossible." - Susan B. Anthony

"The fact is, women are in chains. And their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it." - Susan B. Anthony

"There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers." - Susan B. Anthony

"The rank and file are not philosophers. They are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes." - Susan B. Anthony

"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences." - Susan B. Anthony

"Some things can be done as well as others." - Sam Patch

"The field is beautiful, a perfect size." - Abby Wambach

"I think it's time for the people, and the press in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth." - Joseph Wilson

"When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us." - Joseph Wilson

"People have a tendency to regurgitate whatever they've last heard and to give equal credence to untruths as they do to truths." - Joseph Wilson

"Cocoa? Cocoa! Damn miserable puny stuff, fit for kittens and unwashed boys. Did Shakespeare drink cocoa?" - Shirley Jackson

"It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a four day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once and we are revealed in our true personalities." - Shirley Jackson

"Let my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch." - Shirley Jackson

"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." - Shirley Jackson

"The shadows will be behind you if you walk into the light" - Inscription on Rundel Memorial Library

"We are blessed with a richness of cultural assets and resources that other communities, big and small, can only dream about." - Mayor Bill Johnson

"Without a struggle, there can be no progress." - Frederick Douglass

"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less." - Susan B. Anthony

"Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography." - George Eastman

"Sam Patch — Such is Fame" - A wooden board placed over his grave.

"To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?" - Suicide note of George Eastman

"Love and mathematics are one. Without the order of mathematics love is injustice and discrimination." - Claude Bragdon

"There can be no compromise without confrontation" - Post-riots community organizer Saul Alinsky

"I cannot rip the hearts out of those who hurt you. I cannot hand you their severed heads. But I can hunt them down and settle the score." - Jim 'The Hammer' Shapiro

"After a few more years, facts that may now be gathered with ease will become impossible of discovery. These circumstances appeal strongly to Americans to enter this great field and gather its abundant harvest." - Lewis H. Morgan

"The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation" - Albert Einstein

"The University of Rochester began life in an old hotel. The Eastman Kodak Co. had its beginning in a kitchen sink. And the Genesee River starts in a barnyard." - Arch Merrill in A River Ramble

"We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights." - Susan B. Anthony

"I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old revolutionary maxim, that "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."" -Susan B. Anthony

"The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education." - George Eastman

"Rochester is last in jobs and first in homicides. Rochester is last to rebound from the recession and first in (school) dropout rates. Rochester is last in state aid and first in child poverty rates." - Mayor Bob Duffy

"Failure is impossible" - Susan B. Anthony

"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" - Benjamin Franklin

"What's the point of parallel parking? Everywhere you go has valet." - Cher Horowitz in the movie Clueless

"Ms. Stoeger, my plastic surgeon doesn't want me doing any activity where balls fly at my nose." - Amber in the movie Clueless

"They let Sarah Jessica Parker's face on TV and she looks like a foot." - Peter Griffin

"Make like Siamese twins and split... and then one of you die." - Peter Griffin

"Make every day a great performance - this is not a dress rehearsal" - my sister

"Outsiders – and I do mean outsiders – not from our city, not from our community, decided to set police cars on fire," Mayor Lovely A. Warren said Saturday, May 30, 2020, referring to violence following Black Lives Matter protests. Over the next several days, the Democrat & Chronicle reported the arrests of several suspects, all Rochester area residents.