There are people who are simply gifts to everyone they meet.
Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Tallulah Bankhead
If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
Bruce Jenner
No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.
I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.
Carol Ann Duffy
I'm as pure as the driven slush.
My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.
Mireille Enos
I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
Abraham Cowley
I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff neck or lockjaw.
I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.
Chloe Sevigny
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
Michel de Montaigne
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
Douglas MacArthur
Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.
Harry F. Banks
If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
Nancy BanksSmith
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister
The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.
An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.
Alvan L. Barach
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
Anna Letitia Barbauld
The best interviews -- like the best biographies -- should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.
Lynn Barber
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
Margaret Fairless Barber
My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.
Arlen Specter
To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.
Lady Gaga
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning.
Sofia Vergara
I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.
Marvin Hamlisch
So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.
Rick Warren
My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.
Daphne Zuniga
One expected growth, change without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
Charles de Lint
The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.
Fareed Zakaria
People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.
David Duchovny
My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.
Taryn Manning
It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.
Clyde Tombaugh
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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