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If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.

- Kate Beckinsale

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

- Loretta Lynn

If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.

- Bernard Baruch

We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.

- Jon Huntsman, Jr.

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

- Robert Morgan

With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.

- Enya

I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.

- Alton Brown

You've got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it's all pretty ridiculous, isn't it?

- Cat Deeley

When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets.

- Thom Gunn

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.

- Catherine Deneuve

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

- Joseph Priestley

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

- Vinton Cerf

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

- Brad Pitt

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

- Jessamyn West

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

- Stephen Fry

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

- Ronald Knox

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

- Vaclav Havel

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

I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.

- Diana Ross

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

- Kristen Stewart

I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.

- Talib Kweli

I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.

- Kim Kardashian

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

- Eudora Welty

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

- R. W. Apple, Jr.

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.

- Murray Gell Mann

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

- Jeanette Rankin

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

- W. H. Auden

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction.

- Victoria Principal

If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a very high level of consistency, and there is a sense that he is who he is. Obama's governing is completely consistent with the way he campaigned and the themes on which he campaigned, the issues he highlighted, the vision he shared.

- David Axelrod