Quotes with second-best

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  • John Lennon I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • B. B. King I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • George S. Patton If a man does his best, what else is there?
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • George S. Patton If a man has done his best, what else is there?
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Arnold Rothstein If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.
    Arnold Rothstein
    American racketeer, businessman and gambler (1882 - 1928)
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  • Caitlin Rose If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
    Caitlin Rose
    American country singer (1987 - )
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  • Bryan White If I ever did cross over I would like to do it tactfully. I don't want to offend anyone in country. Can you have the best of both worlds? I sure like the idea of it!
    Bryan White
    American country music singer and songwriter (1974 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recording because I believe that something being officially released on a studio record gives it a certain authority that it doesn't quite have if it comes out on a live album or is just a part of your show, you know.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
    The Life and Public Service of Abraham Lincoln (1865) by Henry J. Raymond
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Wes Craven If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can.
    Wes Craven
    American filmmaker, actor, and novelist (1939 - 2015)
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  • Audrey Hepburn If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
    Audrey Hepburn
    British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian (1929 - 1993)
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  • Dan Dierdorf If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.
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  • Alan Thicke If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Alan Thicke If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • Aristotle If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Aldous Huxley If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • W. H. Auden If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • James A. Garfield If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
    James A. Garfield
    President of the USA (1831 - 1881)
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  • Carlos Fuentes If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.
    Doing It Our Way, New Statesman & Society, 2 February 1990, tr. Alfred MacAdam
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Byron Howard If we can be the best people we are as individuals, then that's the way to change the world.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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