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Pyrrhus said, 'If I should overcome the Romans in another fight, I were undone.'

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• Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Game
  • Energy
  • Best

• As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.

  

  Lance Loud
  • You
  • Emotional
  • Gay

• The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.

  

  Os Guinness
  • People
  • God
  • Hope

• I'm influenced by all types of music.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Influenced
  • Types

• If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

  

  Larry David
  • Truth
  • Feeling
  • You

• Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Vision
  • Only
  • Surrealism

• I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Live
  • Television
  • Radio

• India has the capability to create a fairly extensive defence manufacturing capability in many areas, and as a country and as an industry, we have matured in terms of technology and capability to make this happen.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Country
  • Technology
  • India

• I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Society
  • Freedom
  • Price

• If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Electricity
  • Velvet
  • Gretzky

• It made me wonder if perhaps our ancestors' crimes were not in fact far more terrible than they claimed. After all, the only histories we possessed told their version of what happened, and in their accounts they were completely innocent.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Wonder
  • Innocent

• It is not necessary to ask whether soul and body are one, just as it is not necessary to ask whether the wax and its shape are one, nor generally whether the matter of each thing and that of which it is the matter are one. For even if one and being are spoken of in several ways, what is properly so spoken of is the actuality.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Matter

• La pena humana, durmiendo, no tiene forma. Si la despiertan, toma la forma de quien la despierta,

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Die

• The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride.

  

  James Lovegrove

• I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Up
  • Done

• I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.

  

  Edward Herrmann
  • Life
  • Fun

• I have a sense of Europe also being like home. I mean, Australia is my home, and my heart is there, but I suppose I've always felt close to Europe, given we had family there, and we would visit.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • Family
  • Heart
  • Home

• When one is possessed with doubt, that though he call upon the Lord he cannot be heard, and that God has turned him heart from him, and is angry ... he must arm himself with God's Word, promising to hear him.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Doubt
  • Angry
  • Lord

• Realize that sleeping on a futon when you're 30 is not the worst thing. You know what's worse, sleeping in a king bed next to a wife you're not really in love with but for some reason you married, and you got a couple kids, and you got a job you hate. You'll be laying there fantasizing about sleeping on a futon. There's no risk when you go after a dream. There's a tremendous amount to risk to playing it safe.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Kids
  • Dream
  • Hate

• The important thing for me is that one accepts that one is irretrievably flawed and as you say, takes responsibility for those flaws, rather than hiding them in some code that allows "this" and doesn't allow "that" as if there were a way of being sure of how to be good in the world.

  

  Andre Alexis
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Flaws

• LaGuardia High School is a place of acceptance. You have every type of kid there, performing. The outcast girl would not have been made fun of in my high school.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • School
  • Fun
  • High

• Pyrrhus said, 'If I should overcome the Romans in another fight, I were undone.'

  

  Plutarch