P. T. Barnum Quotes
Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
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I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.
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Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what's right. And what's right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.
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I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.
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It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
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Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.
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Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
