 My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. Author: A. A. Milne
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| Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste. Author: A. C. Benson
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| Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. Author: A. E. Housman
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| But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. Author: A. J. Liebling
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| The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color. Author: A. J. McLean
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| The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long. Author: A. J. P. Taylor
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| A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.' Author: A. P. Martinich
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| Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. Author: Aaliyah
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| I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person. Author: Aaliyah
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| If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy. Author: Aaliyah
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| It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect. Author: Aaliyah
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| I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart. Author: Aaron Allston
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| We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news. Author: Aaron Brown
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| My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough. Author: Aaron Carter
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| If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong. Author: Aaron Copland
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| You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today. Author: Aaron Copland
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| But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter. Author: Aaron Hill
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| There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba. Author: Aaron McGruder
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| Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word "census," and people fall asleep. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. "The West Wing" isn't meant to be good for you. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world. Author: Aaron Spelling
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| But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act. Author: Aaron Spelling
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| I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show. Author: Aaron Spelling
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| One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much. Author: Aaron Spelling
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| Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out. Author: Aaron Spelling
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| Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story. Author: Aaron Stanford
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| I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus. Author: Aaron Yoo
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| In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Author: Abdul Kalam
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| I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam. Author: Abdurrahman Wahid
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| One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good. Author: Abe Lemons
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| I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things. Author: Abel Ferrara
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| If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it. Author: Abraham Cahan
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| Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth. Author: Abraham Cahan
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| Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| Whatever you are, be a good one. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail. Author: Abraham Maslow
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| The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior. Author: Abraham Maslow
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| You must never throw away things that are worth good money. Author: Abraham Polonsky
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| He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car. Author: Abraham Zapruder
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| Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit. Author: Abu Bakar Bashir
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| But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour. Author: Abu Bakar Bashir
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| But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media. Author: Abu Bakar Bashir
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| Be good to others, that will protect you against evil. Author: Abu Bakr
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| Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed. Author: Abu Bakr
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| Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity. Author: Abu Bakr
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| Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. Author: Abu Bakr
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| As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking. Author: Ace Frehley
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| Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one. Author: Ace Frehley
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| I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late. Author: Ace Frehley
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| I've never read anything about heroin where, yeah, it's a good experience, and you can do it for 20 years and enjoy it, like having a cold beer. It doesn't work that way with heroin. Author: Ace Frehley
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| That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert. Author: Ace Frehley
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| The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had. Author: Ace Frehley
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| Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there. Author: Ace Frehley
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| Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything. Author: Ad Reinhardt
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| I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody. Author: Adam Arkin
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| The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies. Author: Adam Arkin
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| We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off. Author: Adam Arkin
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| There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care. Author: Adam Brody
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| If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants. Author: Adam Clarke
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| Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws. Author: Adam Clarke
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| Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck. Author: Adam Clymer
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| I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing. Author: Adam Clymer
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| Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not. Author: Adam Clymer
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| But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record. Author: Adam Duritz
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| If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts. Author: Adam Duritz
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| My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it. Author: Adam Duritz
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| Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel. Author: Adam Jones
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| I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like. Author: Adam Jones
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| I'm not a good guitar player. Author: Adam Jones
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| I've never worried about how long the song is. Author: Adam Jones
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| That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound. Author: Adam Jones
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