Gene Policinski quote: "The nation's founders took particular care more than 200 years ago to respect the right of every person to choose their religious faith without government interference, or to have no faith at all. These recommendations are an important starting point in evaluating and strengthening this basic right so that it may better withstand the pressures of the 21st century."

The bottom line is, we have a right in America to express our views, even if most people would think...
GENE POLICINSKI

I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but ...
GENE WILDER

I don't wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.
GENE SIMMONS

Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. ...
GENE SIMMONS

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
GENE HACKMAN

There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of wh...
GENE ROBINSON

After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.
GENE SISKEL

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look...
GENE SIMMONS

I want to do everything. I want to be the president, I want to learn Tae Kwan Do, I want to climb mo...
GENE SIMMONS

The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would b...
GENE SISKEL

I hear from broadcasters pretty often. Their ad revenue is down.
GENE GREEN

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God...
GENE TIERNEY

Time is the fire in which we burn.
GENE RODDENBERRY

I have a lot of hard-working, blue-collar people in my district who are at the end of their unemploy...
GENE GREEN

While it is true that many hep C victims became infected through blood transfusions or organ transpl...
GENE WEINGARTEN

I'd been an Army bomber pilot and fascinated by the Navy and, particularly, the story of the Ent...
GENE RODDENBERRY

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an ...
GENE SIMMONS

I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.
GENE SIMMONS

I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still ...
GENE RODDENBERRY

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.
GENE TIERNEY

Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in th...
GENE BROWN

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it...
GENE WEEN

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on yo...
GENE FOWLER

People don't change. Only their costumes do.
GENE MOORSE

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock o...
GENE FOWLER

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved...
GENE FOWLER

We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind.
GENE RODDENBERRY

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to uns...
GENE FOWLER

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on...
GENE RODDENBERRY

The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.
GENE BROWN

The present blitz about drugs - I think it looks very much like how we treated insane people 100 yea...
GENE RODDENBERRY

Never defend yourself of words from a fool unless you are willing to become his/her equal.
GENE CRAWFORD

I'm in a period of growth and expansion. I'm taking long, hard looks at the world and what's happeni...
GENE RODDENBERRY

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.
GENE BROWN

If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between me...
GENE RODDENBERRY

Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
GENE BROWN

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
GENE FOWLER

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget whe...
GENE FOWLER

The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it.
GENE BROWN

Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies.
GENE HILL

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his m...
GENE FOWLER

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Human...
GENE RODDENBERRY

The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that...
GENE WILDER

Before a show, you might have aches or pains, or it's a bad rainy day, or it's too humid. We...
GENE SIMMONS

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy considera...
GENE KELLY

The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low, and voters lack...
GENE GREEN

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
GENE WOLFE

The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them...
GENE TUNNEY

Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it st...
GENE WILDER

The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek...
GENE RODDENBERRY

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
GENE FOWLER

Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Ele...
GENE GREEN

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express someth...
GENE SIMMONS

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mik...
GENE TUNNEY

Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impress...
GENE TUNNEY

A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body.
GENE TUNNEY

A concave chest means that your diaphragm is sagging.
GENE TUNNEY

Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood an...
GENE TUNNEY

Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.
GENE TUNNEY

A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat ple...
GENE TUNNEY

Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.
GENE TUNNEY

Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. I...
GENE TUNNEY

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.
GENE TUNNEY

I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.
GENE TUNNEY

One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet.
GENE TUNNEY

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, mo...
GENE TUNNEY

The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach pro...
GENE TUNNEY

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there ...
GENE TUNNEY

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.
GENE TUNNEY

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
GENE FOWLER

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.
GENE TUNNEY

Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in th...
GENE MAUCH

The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about ...
GENE HACKMAN

I've been hearing from people saying they see me more than they do their city council member.
GENE GREEN

When you are interviewing someone, don't just write down what he says. Ask yourself: Does this g...
GENE WEINGARTEN

Earth is the nest, the cradle, and we'll move out of it.
GENE RODDENBERRY

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
GENE TIERNEY

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened y...
GENE SIMMONS

The truly longstanding tradition in the church is that some are called to celibacy. Some feel called...
GENE ROBINSON

Some of us shorten our names or our noses or both... We Jews can be extremely neurotic and are incli...
GENE SAKS

My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I thin...
GENE WILDER

I trust if your life is right, the right things will happen at the right time. If the chords are in ...
GENE WILDER

The Pulitzer is a crapshoot. Your piece has to hit a few people the right way at the right moment.
GENE WEINGARTEN

The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That&#...
GENE SIMMONS

No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're cle...
GENE RODDENBERRY

I remember myself as an asthmatic child, having great difficulties at 7, 8 and 9 years old, falling ...
GENE RODDENBERRY

When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the ma...
GENE KELLY

What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but t...
GENE WILDER

I hope my fans remember my name is Gene Vincent and not Gene Autry.
GENE VINCENT

You have to bear in mind that Mr. Autry's favorite horse was named Champion. He ain't ever h...
GENE MAUCH

I do not like assassins, or men of low character.
GENE HACKMAN

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a ...
GENE TIERNEY

In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches,...
GENE TUNNEY

I'm not a natural writer like, let's say - I'm not talking about Arthur Miller; that'...
GENE WILDER

If you're the greatest, it's okay to say you're the greatest. My suggestion to everybody...
GENE SIMMONS

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well ...
GENE SIMMONS

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I&#...
GENE HACKMAN

But by virtue of our baptism, Peter Akinola and I are brothers in Christ and one day we are going to...
GENE ROBINSON

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
GENE FOWLER

The thing I always liked best about touring abroad was constantly running into different people, dif...
GENE PITNEY

Instead of saying we need to outlaw certain types of weapons, we need to find better ways to enforce...
GENE GREEN

More than 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does nationally is preventive care - including cervi...
GENE GREEN

Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.
GENE TUNNEY

John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor.
GENE SISKEL

The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them hap...
GENE SIMMONS

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.
GENE TIERNEY

Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at.
GENE WEEN

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
GENE FOWLER

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to...
GENE WOLFE

I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the direct...
GENE WILDER

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipu...
GENE SISKEL

It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.
GENE RODDENBERRY

Shell and Exxon support export, but refiners like Valero could end up paying more for the crude oil.
GENE GREEN

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He ...
GENE FOWLER

Do not waste your life waiting for wings. Trust that you can already fly.
AUDREY GENE

Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three...
GENE KELLY

...he seemed to grasp a deep understanding of the unfolding drama in which he had been caught. He se...
GENE EDWARDS

David was caught in a very uncomfortable position; however, he seemed to grasp a deep understanding ...
GENE EDWARDS

I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.
GENE TIERNEY

When we got back to my room, Gilda gave the dog a bowl of water and set some newspaper down in the b...
GENE WILDER

If you think about it, critics are an unnecessary life-form on the planet Earth, and here's why:...
GENE SIMMONS

While traveling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by...
GENE SPAFFORD

If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens.
GENE SPAFFORD

Writing is easy. All you have to do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on ...
GENE FOWLER

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock o...
GENE FOWLER

Back in the Saddle Again
GENE AUTRY

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,
GENE AUTRY

things that give you standing in the community.
GENE AUTRY

I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Pe...
GENE WILDER

You Are My Sunshine.
GENE AUTRY

We want to give men and women in the department equal opportunities to appear on stage. With 'Julius...
GENE ANTHONY

It's tough, it's an interesting little play -- part comedy, part serious. Basically, it's a story ab...
GENE ANTHONY

We bought a real beauty parlor, with dryers and functioning water, and the whole bit. All the other ...
GENE ANTHONY

We missed Valentine's Day by about a week. You can tell your guy you'll trade him this play for thre...
GENE ANTHONY

I wonder if my mom just got tired of voting for North College Hill.
GENE AMMIRANTE

All of our guys can make those scrappy plays. We've come to expect the defensive effort because thos...
GENE AMMIRANTE

I thought Andrew did a great job (defensively). When we face 1,000-point scorers like Eric Anthony, ...
GENE AMMIRANTE

They made a lot of spirited plays. We left our men at times in the first half and they made shots an...
GENE AMMIRANTE

Nate senses when we're in danger. He had some big drives and foul shots down the stretch and really ...
GENE AMMIRANTE

I was happy with our decision-making down the stretch. That's probably the best we've done with that...
GENE AMMIRANTE

I don't want to take anything away from Martins Ferry because they did a real good job. We just didn...
GENE AMMIRANTE

He does have that ability (intimidation). He's a basket presence defender, but we don't want to get ...
GENE AMMIRANTE

We are going to try to improve our mental attitude that we are able to defend at a 10 level no matte...
GENE AMMIRANTE

To go out 20 times and be able to come out on the good side all 20 of those times is really a testam...
GENE AMMIRANTE

I think the kids get pumped up to play against other competition.
GENE ALLEN

We wanted to take advantage of our mismatches. We felt Darnell had not been getting the ball enough ...
GENE ALLEN

I guess I got that one off my back.
GENE ALLEN

I think you have to give all the credit to Lower. He (Holden) is a fantastic coach. His team came re...
GENE ALLEN

Ronnie gave us the spark we needed. I think he's starting to understand what we're telling him. Hope...
GENE ALLEN

They are ranked No. 1 for a good reason,
GENE ALLEN

We started off bad and never recovered. I thought we may have taken a step back tonight. We just did...
GENE ALLEN

a snowball that turned into an avalanche.
GENE ALLEN

Give them all the credit. We didn't execute on offense, especially in the first half.
GENE ALLEN

For us, they are all teaching games. We went into this game trying to win it. They have a great foot...
GENE ALLEN

When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gav...
GENE KRUPA

Discerning the will of God is a very tricky thing, partly because, you know, the little voice in my ...
GENE ROBINSON

Expanded cinema isn't a movie at all: like life it's a process of becoming.
GENE YOUNGBLOOD

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important t...
GENE SIMMONS

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
GENE SIMMONS

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.
GENE TIERNEY

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing su...
GENE WILDER

My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunch...
GENE HACKMAN

Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
GENE BROWN

We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help u...
GENE MCSWEENEY

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm...
GENE HACKMAN

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your for...
GENE FOWLER

An editor should have a pimp for a brother, so he'd have someone to look up to.
GENE FOWLER

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It...
GENE SIMMONS

We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had ...
GENE WEEN

Her books were put down by most critics but readers would not put down her books.
GENE SHALIT

I dig the fair atmosphere. Give me a sausage with onions! I really dig the fair. It's great.
GENE JOHNSON

There is no question in the world that educating a girl is good for her country and good for her. Th...
GENE SPERLING

I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection ...
GENE ROBINSON

Frankly, whatever assistance people get from FEMA will not have a lot of extras built into it, so th...
GENE GREEN

I've worked with Fred Upton, and I think we've got a lot of common agreement on energy produ...
GENE GREEN

No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band...
GENE SIMMONS

Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving peop...
GENE SIMMONS

Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat.
GENE SIMMONS

One of the things we have to remember about the poorest countries in the world is that parents, extr...
GENE SPERLING

He clearly still harbors a very personal grudge from the December negotiations. And that doesn't aug...
GENE RUSSIANOFF

If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being
GENE HACKMAN

Scarecrow
GENE HACKMAN

[Asked what changed in the tide to allow them to be stars, Hoffman laughs and replies,] A decline in...
GENE HACKMAN

You have a powerful weapon working for you. For you there is no tomorrow and that makes you all very...
GENE HACKMAN

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and age...
GENE HACKMAN

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing ...
GENE SIMMONS

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
GENE TIERNEY

In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.
GENE TIERNEY

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.
GENE TIERNEY

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves
GENE FOWLER

It is easier to believe than to doubt.
GENE FOWLER

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.
GENE FOWLER

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins
GENE FOWLER

We think that is extremely misguided.
GENE SPERLING

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.
GENE TIERNEY

My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about...
GENE SIMMONS

My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suff...
GENE WILDER

A simple philosophy to stick to would be that religion and the promotion of religious opinion is non...
GENE GARMAN

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.
GENE HACKMAN

There must be ways to cut legislative staff in order to accomplish reductions in the cost of the Leg...
GENE STILP

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