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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.

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• I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Song
  • Never
  • Pressure

• I read part of it all the way through.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Way
  • Funny
  • Through

• If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.

  

  Kajol
  • Character
  • Society
  • Cinema

• I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Happens
  • Fan
  • Bully

• I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Funny

• I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • People
  • Want
  • Perfect

• I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Streets

• The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Know
  • Never
  • Rules

• We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Wife
  • Rule
  • Fine

• If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • People
  • Think
  • Weakness

• Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Home
  • Strong
  • Better

• The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Criticism
  • Old
  • Tradition

• We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • People
  • Society
  • Political

• The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Enough
  • Speak
  • One Word

• If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Done
  • You
  • Doubt

• Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Direction
  • Tradition

• In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Embrace
  • U.S.

• We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Want
  • Human
  • Human being

• When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.

  

  Binyavanga Wainaina
  • Live
  • Black

• People need to see where their dollars are going and what infrastructure is being built.

  

  Kathleen Wynne
  • People

• The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Community
  • Wisdom
  • Ephemeral

• The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage the public business, and that they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honest. There is little support for that theory in known facts.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Work
  • Men
  • Business

• The Cisco announcement that their revenue might slow due to shortage of parts meant, therefore, Nortel was down because it's competing in the same market. I think that was the big negative.

  

  Kate Warne
  • Market
  • Parts
  • Revenue

• I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Life
  • Live