Billy Connolly Quotes
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
Mandy Patinkin -
I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
Zubin Mehta -
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
Queen Latifah -
With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
Dan Quinn
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
Dakota Fanning -
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
Gary Bauer -
To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
Carl Lewis -
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
Ma Jian -
When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
Barney Ross
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West -
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi -
In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
Barton Gellman -
When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
Rafael Nadal -
Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
Maimonides
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Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
Dave Barry -
I was raped in a driveway when I was eleven. … It was a terrible experience because we had all that gravel.
Tallulah Bankhead -
Your mind simply can't focus forward and downward all at the same time.
Daryn Kagan -
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
Chinua Achebe -
Salvation lies in imitating Christ, in other words, in imitating the 'withdrawal relationship' that links him with his Father... To listen to the Father's silence is to abandon oneself to his withdrawal, to conform to it.
Rene Girard -
I know at least... oh my God, at least 127 words. And I still prefer 'Fuck'.
Billy Connolly