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My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

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• A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Power
  • Healing
  • Medical

• There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Serious
  • Capitalism
  • Toward

• Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

  

  Og Mandino
  • Work
  • Live
  • Today

• I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Future
  • Picture
  • Baseball

• I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything like that. So for me, that's what the show is about. For me - is a way to interact with fans; being up onstage and showing them, through music - which is all I really know - the best way to say thank you.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Up
  • Music
  • Best

• I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Think
  • Best

• On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Lived
  • Loser
  • Tombstone

• KWMR is my radio station, and I intend to have a job there as I get older. That's what I'm lobbying for. They don't need me. They've got plenty of people. But let's see if I can make myself indispensable.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Job
  • Myself

• The magic of creation has always fascinated me.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • Always
  • Magic
  • Creation

• I definitely want to work in Hindi films.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Work
  • Want
  • Films

• Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Life
  • Work
  • Country

• I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • America
  • Talent
  • Abundance

• And Israel is not only our ally; it is a beacon of what democracy can and should mean… If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Democracy

• Life insurance is a commodity.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • Life
  • Insurance

• Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, 'taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power.' History taught the same to many conservative and reactionary populist movements, whose real attitude to those in power and authority was one of a servile, envious, vicarious adoration.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Real
  • Power
  • History

• If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Art
  • Interesting
  • Law

• I don't have muscle tone. I'm just flab. I'm not a daredevil. I don't like pain, I don't like cold, I don't want to feel exhausted. But the sense of accomplishment is something I've never felt before, in a physical sense.

  

  Charlene Tilton
  • Pain
  • Cold
  • Accomplishment

• There's an oft-used shorthand for the technologist's view of the world. It is assumed that libertarianism dominates Silicon Valley, and that isn't wholly wrong. High-profile devotees of Ayn Rand can be found there.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • World
  • High

• It's not Apple's fault that they're seeking to avoid paying taxes. They're not lying, cheating or stealing. They're following the rules that were created by governments. If the government doesn't like the rules, they can change them.

  

  John Mackey
  • Cheating

• My father was very sick around the time I was born. The doctors thought he wouldn't live. He did recover, but I don't remember him as very active. I do remember lots of schtick around the dinner table. Generally, he and my brothers and I were all laughing at the same thing my mother did not find funny, whatever that was.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Time
  • Live
  • Remember

• You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.

  

  Robert Dwayne Womack
  • Up
  • Time
  • Perfect

• The period in the name - huge mistake, I know. We didn't think about that. We never thought we were going to be written up in magazines. The second we saw it in print, like, what a mistake, man.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Up
  • Mistake
  • Period

• My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

  

  Sherman Alexie
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