Quotes with second-best

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  • Barry Hannah My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Woody Allen My brain: it's my second favorite organ.
    Sleeper (1973)
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bruce Dickinson My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Robert E. Lee My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Cary Grant My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
    Cary Grant
    English-born American actor (1904 - 1986)
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  • Bela Karolyi My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what matters.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Bill Haslam My job as governor is different from the legislators. They represent their districts. I have to represent all 6.6 million Tennesseans and come to the best decisions I can.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Tupac Shakur My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'
    Tupac Shakur
    American rapper and actor (1971 - 1996)
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  • Angela Carter My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Robert Southey My name is Death: the last best friend am I.
    Carmen Nuptiale
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Novalis My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
    Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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  • Bill Mauldin My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world. I'm in it.
    Mud & Guts : A Look at the Common Soldier of the American Revolution
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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  • Buzz Aldrin My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Allen Ginsberg My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Oprah Winfrey My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Art Linkletter My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Rodney Dangerfield My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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  • Tom Hanks My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels - we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]
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  • Bruce Coville My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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