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When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

Hugo Black

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• Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • World
  • Man
  • Comedy

• A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Good Idea

• When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Real
  • Help
  • Know

• Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Done
  • Golf

• O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

  

  Ada Cambridge
  • Life
  • Fire
  • Wind

• The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Up
  • Different
  • Country

• A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Goals
  • Soccer
  • Meant To Be

• I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Philosophy

• I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Words
  • Loss
  • Even

• One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• Avarice is a deadly sin.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Sin
  • Avarice
  • Deadly

• When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Trying
  • School
  • Together

• If you want to conduct terror against Israelis, which is unacceptable, send fighters to do it. Don't send your women and children.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Women
  • Children
  • Want

• Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Years
  • Company

• My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Character
  • Sacrifice
  • Key

• When I was pregnant, I was like, 'I'm pregnant, so I'm allowed to eat everything: bagels with cream cheese for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and I can have pizza for dessert.'

  

  Lake Bell
  • Breakfast
  • Dinner
  • Pizza

• Hoy-day, what a sweep of vanity comes this way!

  

  Vanity

• It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Good
  • Important
  • May

• I will never, never ever sing on stage, but when I'm in the studio, I do sing melody lines. When I'm working with singer-songwriters, and I hear melodies, I can guide them. I will be like, 'Oh no, do this this this.' But you will never hear my voice on a Martin Garrix track.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21

• Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry!

  

  Jerry Coleman
  • Funny
  • Baseball
  • Hands

• I fancy that England is not the only place where married folks disagree, and where there are bad husbands. If one does not care to meet with such cases, one must quit this world. Those wishing to enter the marriage state had better not come to me for advice, for I disapprove of it altogether.

  

  Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans
  • Advice
  • Married
  • England

• One of the most important milestones we'll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Way
  • Point Of View
  • Priceless

• When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Funny
  • Waiting
  • Advice