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  • Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.
  • One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
  • I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.
  • But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.
  • We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was.
  • At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
  • People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play.
  • Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know.
  • James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw.
  • When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.
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  • Benjamin E. Mays I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.
    As quoted in "Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography", Mays constantly recited to his students this anonymous poem.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Woody Allen A ''Bay Area Bisexual'' told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Jake Johanson A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. "You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?" she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too."
    Jake Johanson
     
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  • Harry S. Truman Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carrie Fisher People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Lincoln Steffens Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.
    Lincoln Steffens
     
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  • Mark Twain Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Carlton Cuse 'Brisco' was the first show I created, and of course, at the time I had no idea what a special experience it was because I didn't have a frame of reference. After it was over I was like, 'Damn. Shoot. That was something special.' I'm still upset that it got cancelled.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Bonnie Langford 'Dr Who' is an extraordinary association that I have because I didn't realise until I was in the show quite how worldwide it is and how popular and how dear it is to so many people's hearts.
    Bonnie Langford
    English actress, dancer and singer (1964 - )
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  • Bill Murray 'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Brendon Urie 'Miss Jackson' is about something that actually happened to me when I was younger. I hadn't really talked about it, and I felt that if I didn't, I would keep thinking about it; it would drive me crazy.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Andrew H. Malcolm A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone.
    Andrew H. Malcolm
     
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  • Billie Jean King A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Max Eastman A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
    Max Eastman
    American writer on literature, philosophy and society (1883 - 1969)
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  • Lenny Bruce A lot of people say to me, ''Why did you kill Christ?'' ''I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know.'' ''We killed him because he didn't want to become a doctor, that's why we killed him.''
    Lenny Bruce
    American Comedian (1925 - 1966)
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  • Bryan Robson A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Richard Bach A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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