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My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to watch. I remember she said to me: 'Believe in yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.' I'm sure a lot of my success is due to her words of advice.
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My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'
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My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.
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My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.
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Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.
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Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
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Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.
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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
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Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? is not this also a return?
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Never play a thing the same way twice.
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Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.
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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
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Never try to say something remarkable. It is sure to be wrong.
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News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.
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Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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