P. T. Barnum Quotes

Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

P. T. Barnum

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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.

  

  Barbara Deming
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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.'

  

  Dan Colen
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• The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

  

  Yasser Arafat
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• I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.

  

  Laura Dern
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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.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Try
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• Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
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• I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

  

  Pamela Anderson
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  • Moderation

• Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Try
  • Fiction
  • Short

• 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.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Try
  • Ghost

• Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • War
  • Think
  • Eyes

• 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.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Way
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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.

  

  B. B. King
  • Know
  • Like
  • Songs

• 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!

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • People
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• I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Me
  • Try
  • Escape

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Death
  • Child

• 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.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Time
  • You
  • Judge

• You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • You
  • Dying
  • Bored

• Guys try to take you out of the game if they know they can. So especially if you've got a playmaker, guys on the defense would do that.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Game
  • Know
  • Try

• It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • About
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  • Oligarchy

• One of the most amazing things about 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' is that every song is an original. There are no covers. I think 'Glee' had to deal with forcing covers into their plotlines. That can be difficult to pull off.

  

  Donna Lynne Champlin
  • Song
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  • Crazy

• I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.

  

  Pam Houston
  • Learning

• The building itself is hostile: cracked plaster, broken windows, splintered doors and carved up desks, gloomy corridors, metal stairways, dingy cafeteria (they can eat sitting down only in 20 minute shifts) and an auditorium which has no windows. It does have murals, however, depicting mute, muscular harvesters, faded and immobilized under a mustard sun. That's where we had assembly this morning.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Morning
  • Building
  • Hostile

• Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Dying
  • Try
  • Medicine