 Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? Author: A. A. Milne
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| Organizating is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up. Author: A. A. Milne
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| Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. Author: A. A. Milne
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| The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. Author: A. A. Milne
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| I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples. Author: A. B. Yehoshua
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| So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on. Author: A. B. Yehoshua
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| The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people. Author: A. B. Yehoshua
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| We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned? Author: A. B. Yehoshua
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| Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building. Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti
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| There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew. Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti
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| There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind. Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti
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| I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. Author: A. C. Benson
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| When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. Author: A. C. Benson
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| Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. Author: A. E. Housman
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| Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. 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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| People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. Author: A. J. Liebling
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| I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking. Author: A. J. McLean
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| Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible. Author: A. J. McLean
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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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| Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914. Author: A. J. P. Taylor
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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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| If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey. Author: A. N. Wilson
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| A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess. Author: A. Philip Randolph
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| We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts. Author: A. Philip Randolph
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| Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. Author: A. R. Ammons
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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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| You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer. Author: A. Whitney Brown
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| Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait. Author: A. Whitney Brown
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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'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character. 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 hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone. 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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| There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself. 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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| When all else fails, complicate matters. Author: Aaron Allston
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| No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear. Author: Aaron Brown
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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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| Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it. Author: Aaron Carter
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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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| When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called "Dead End." The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff. 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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| To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. 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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| I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism. 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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| 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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| Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| When it gets down to it you just have to act. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use. 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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| Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back. Author: Aaron McGruder
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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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| When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story. Author: Aaron McGruder
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| You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that. Author: Aaron McGruder
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| You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise. Author: Aaron McGruder
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| I think things happened the way they did for a reason. Author: Aaron Neville
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| I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award. Author: Aaron Neville
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| When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen. Author: Aaron Neville
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| When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time. Author: Aaron Neville
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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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| 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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| 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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| A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows? Author: Aaron Spelling
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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 don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together. 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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| Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them. Author: Aaron Spelling
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| Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl. 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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| When we did Dynasty, it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire! 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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| History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. Author: Abba Eban
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| It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say. Author: Abba Eban
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| Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss. Author: Abba Eban
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| Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. Author: Abba Eban
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| The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. Author: Abba Eban
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| People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands. Author: Abbe Pierre
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| What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences. Author: Abbe Pierre
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| When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives. Author: Abbe Pierre
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| But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying. Author: Abbey Lincoln
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| I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas. Author: Abbey Lincoln
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| There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be. Author: Abbey Lincoln
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| I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars. Author: Abbie Hoffman
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| The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do. Author: Abbie Hoffman
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