1. A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.
  2. Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.
  3. I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they're wearing.
  4. I have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within my footwear and accessories both on and off the court.
  5. I help design my own tennis clothes.
  6. I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.
  7. I love street style, seeing how girls wear pieces and how their pair accessories with their outfit. How they pair shoes with a bag and go to day to night and change things up.
  8. I love to collect modern art.
  9. I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.
  10. I think it's so cool to be tall. Even when I'm not wearing heels people tell me I'm tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room.
  11. I want my handbags and my shoes to be stylish but I want to make sure that they're versatile. I travel and I have to make sure the pieces I put into my bag can go with a dress or with shorts or jeans.
  12. I'd like to have a family.
  13. If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.
  14. It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.
  15. I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.
  16. I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.
  17. Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.
  18. My family and I built my whole career from scratch.
  19. My main goal is to stay healthy because when you're injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.
  20. No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.
  21. Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.
  22. To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.
  23. When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better.
  24. When you look good, you feel good. Confidence with what you're wearing is very important. If you feel good, you will always perform your best without worrying about anything.
  25. When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.
  26. Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.
  27. Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.

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  1. Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.
  2. Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.
  3. I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.
  4. I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.
  5. I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.
  6. I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.
  7. I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.
  8. I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.
  9. Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.
  10. Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn't matter right now.
  11. The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.
  12. The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better.
  13. The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.
  14. There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.
  15. There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.
  16. There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.
  17. We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.
  18. When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.
  19. Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
  20. Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
  21. Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.

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  1. A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
  2. A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
  3. A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
  4. A fool and her money are soon courted.
  5. A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
  6. After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
  7. After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
  8. And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.
  9. Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.
  10. Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.
  11. Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.
  12. Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
  13. Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
  14. Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
  15. In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
  16. It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying it's separating himself from all the others.
  17. Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
  18. Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
  19. Love, the quest marriage, the conquest divorce, the inquest.
  20. Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
  21. Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
  22. Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
  23. Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
  24. One man's folly is another man's wife.
  25. Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
  26. Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
  27. Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
  28. The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.
  29. There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
  30. Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
  31. When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

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  1. Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
  2. Advertising is legalized lying.
  3. Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.
  4. After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
  5. Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
  6. Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
  7. Cynicism is humor in ill health.
  8. Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
  9. Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
  10. History is a race between education and catastrophe.
  11. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
  12. Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
  13. I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
  14. I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
  15. If we don't end war, war will end us.
  16. In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
  17. Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
  18. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
  19. No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
  20. Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
  21. Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
  22. The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
  23. The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
  24. There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
  25. We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

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  1. Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.
  2. Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.
  3. I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.
  4. I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.
  5. I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.
  6. I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.
  7. I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.
  8. I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.
  9. I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.
  10. I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.
  11. I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.
  12. I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.
  13. I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.
  14. I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.
  15. I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.
  16. I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.
  17. I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.
  18. My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.
  19. My hair was famous before I was.
  20. No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.
  21. Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.
  22. Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?
  23. The best thing for me is, when I'm not working, is to be at home and to have a script or two scripts is better, and to be just walking around the house and just thinking about the lines.
  24. There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.
  25. There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.
  26. They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.
  27. Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.
  28. When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.

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  1. Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.
  2. Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
  3. Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.
  4. Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.
  5. Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.
  6. Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.
  7. But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.
  8. Climate change is a global issue - from the point of view of the Earth's climate, a molecule of CO2 emitted in Bejing is the same as a molecule emitted in Sydney.
  9. Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.
  10. Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.
  11. Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.
  12. Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
  13. In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.
  14. In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.
  15. In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.
  16. Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.
  17. Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.
  18. Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.
  19. One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.
  20. The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.
  21. The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.
  22. When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.
  23. With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.

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  1. As kids we're not taught how to deal with success we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?
  2. But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.
  3. Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.
  4. Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.
  5. Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.
  6. I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.
  7. I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill.
  8. I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.
  9. I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.
  10. I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.
  11. I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.
  12. I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.
  13. I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.
  14. I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.
  15. It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.
  16. I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.
  17. Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.
  18. People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.
  19. The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.
  20. We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.
  21. What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.
  22. What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes.
  23. When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.
  24. You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.

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  1. A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
  2. All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
  3. Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
  4. Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
  5. I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
  6. I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
  7. I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
  8. I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
  9. I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
  10. I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
  11. I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
  12. In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
  13. I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
  14. Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
  15. Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
  16. Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
  17. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
  18. Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
  19. Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
  20. Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
  21. Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
  22. Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
  23. The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
  24. The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
  25. Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
  26. To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
  27. To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
  28. We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
  29. 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.
  30. When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

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  1. A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
  2. Change is the end result of all true learning.
  3. Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
  4. Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
  5. I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
  6. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
  7. If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
  8. If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
  9. It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
  10. I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.
  11. Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
  12. Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
  13. Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.
  14. Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
  15. Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
  16. Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
  17. The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
  18. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
  19. What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
  20. What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
  21. Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

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  1. A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
  2. A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
  3. An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
  4. By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
  5. I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
  6. It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
  7. May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
  8. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
  9. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
  10. One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
  11. Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
  12. The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
  13. The universe never did make sense I suspect it was built on government contract.
  14. They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
  15. When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
  16. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
  17. Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
  18. You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

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  1. A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
  2. Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
  3. At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
  4. Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
  5. Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
  6. Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
  7. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
  8. I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
  9. I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
  10. I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
  11. I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
  12. I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
  13. I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
  14. It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
  15. It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
  16. It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
  17. Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
  18. My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
  19. Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
  20. Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
  21. Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
  22. Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
  23. The man who has no imagination has no wings.
  24. The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
  25. Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
  26. We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last.
  27. When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

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  1. A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.
  2. Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
  3. I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.
  4. I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
  5. I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.
  6. I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
  7. I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.
  8. I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
  9. I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
  10. I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
  11. In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
  12. Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.
  13. Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?
  14. Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.
  15. Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
  16. My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
  17. My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
  18. My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.
  19. My Vegas act is how I make my money.
  20. Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.
  21. Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?
  22. Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
  23. There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.
  24. To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.'
  25. We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.
  26. When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

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  1. A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.
  2. A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.
  3. For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.
  4. I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.
  5. I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.
  6. I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.
  7. I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.
  8. I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens.
  9. I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.
  10. I hope there are some audiophiles still out there.
  11. I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.
  12. I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.
  13. I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.
  14. I love slow music.
  15. I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.
  16. I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.
  17. I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.
  18. I'm always going to do that - record and make music.
  19. It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.
  20. I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'
  21. Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!
  22. My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.
  23. My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.
  24. Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
  25. Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.
  26. There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.
  27. When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

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  1. A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
  2. A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
  3. After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.
  4. Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
  5. Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
  6. Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
  7. Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
  8. I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.
  9. If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.
  10. It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
  11. It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.
  12. It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
  13. Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
  14. Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
  15. Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
  16. Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
  17. No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
  18. No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
  19. Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
  20. Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
  21. Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
  22. The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
  23. The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
  24. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
  25. There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
  26. Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
  27. We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
  28. When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money.

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  1. Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
  2. From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.
  3. I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.
  4. I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
  5. I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.
  6. I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.
  7. I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
  8. I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.
  9. I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
  10. I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
  11. I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
  12. I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
  13. I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.
  14. I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
  15. It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
  16. It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.
  17. I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
  18. My dad was a Methodist minister.
  19. People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.
  20. Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
  21. The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
  22. The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
  23. The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.
  24. There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
  25. Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
  26. When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.
  27. When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

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