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A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.
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A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
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A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
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A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.
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A lot of the cities where we have a strong following, we don't even get to every year anymore. But Stony Brook was a place that, from the very first time we went, the chemistry was right. They loved us, and we loved them, and we just kept going back and going back.
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
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A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
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A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results.
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A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
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A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face.
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A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
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A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
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A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
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Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
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