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Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for office and things.

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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.
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I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.
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I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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After leaving Evanescence, I dealt with a lot of sh--, then being diagnosed as bipolar, and my heavy drug use and rehab ... this record went through all that with me, so making it was a complete catharsis, ... I'm focusing on me and getting the unhealthy things out of my life, which isn't always an easy thing to do, but that's been my main focus right now. I'm still on a journey, you know, but I'm a lot happier now. I can sleep easier.
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You can't control where you were born, the family you were born into, what you look like; you can't control any of those circumstances. The only thing you can control is how you react.
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If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.
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I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or 5, and sometimes I work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Pretty much I keep the same hours as an accountant or clerk or whatever.
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Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for office and things.