Homer Quotes
If you're gonna get mad at me every time I do something stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things.
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
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You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
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I don't know about the whole song-and-dance thing. But if India will have me, the independent cinema scene there is something I'm really interested in.
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If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?
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The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which contains the denouement or culmination and which will leave the strongest impression upon the reader.
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The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.
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My life and my happiness is most important to me than any job or anything in the world.
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After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.
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Piano is like drudgery.
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I spent ten years being told there was no way I was going to have a career because I was so effeminate.
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I think that I can improv.
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Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.
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Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.
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If you're gonna get mad at me every time I do something stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things.
