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Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She’d make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.
My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.
I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can’t just be the girl who sang ‘I Kissed a Girl.’ I have to leave a legacy.
It’s a bit like school camp, shooting a film. Everyone’s on heat. It’s a strange energy. It’s full of adrenalin. I funnel my excess energy in funny little ways. I do a lot of dancing in my trailer. I love music.
Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
I didn’t want to have braces when I was a kid and I’m pretty sure my dad didn’t want to pay for them.
The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
I just saw the movie for the first time in its entirely last night. It’s really cool when you’re in with an audience that’s so tuned in and plugged in to what’s going on.
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
It’s funny how people who ain’t never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It’s funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, ‘Get up. What’s wrong with you?’
Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it’s more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.
I think it’s important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.
We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
The hoary joke in the literary world, based on ‘Dreams From My Father,’ was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.
I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.
Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
Politics are not the task of a Christian.
The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.
This weird thing happens when you’re in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they’ll be good for your career. It’s not about the project’s integrity or anything like that.
My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
Growing up, I didn’t have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination – think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.
When I was younger – it might be a romantic idea – I always thought I might go crazy.
Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
It’s cool to be recognised by your peers.
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.
What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious. The name thing: I will always be L.L. Cool J.
I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.