All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams.

When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?

Henry Flynt

God helps them that help themselves.

Proverb

Technology does not drive change -- it enables change.

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A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.

Ogden Nash

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Barack Obama

And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.

Lewis Black

Anything and everything, physical or otherwise, is defined by its absence.

Eric Parslow

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

Mortimer Adler

No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.

Korner

Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

Edward Blishen

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny.

Anthony Robbins

I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.

Mike Piazza