Quotes 561 till 580 of 616.
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When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.
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When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer. Politicians naturally want to do something in response to crisis, even if that something doesn't make any sense. But unfortunately for politicians, the security measures that work are largely invisible.
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When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
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When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.
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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn't feel like you're falling: it feels like you're floating, a bit like scuba diving.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.
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When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
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When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.
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When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.
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When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.
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Whether it's at a concert in France or a restaurant in the United States, terrorism doesn't have to happen in a military installation by any stretch of the imagination.
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Who knew we had all this O.C.D. in the world? Well actually, I suppose it's pretty obvious. It explains Sudoku, doesn't it?
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
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Why doesn't the fellow who says, ''I'm no speechmaker'' let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?
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Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
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Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
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