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Because Dickens and Dostoevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.
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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.
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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.
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Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.
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Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?
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Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
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Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain.
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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
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But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been.
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But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.
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But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.
Het korte maar wonderbaarlijke leven van Oscar Wao (2008) 209 -
But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes.
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