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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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
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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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Every so often, you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can't let a story surprise you. You want to allow the type of action of the writer's room so that you have the ability to take a left turn.
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I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
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Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.
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Whenever some kind of mass shooting or any other kind of violent activity takes place, we kind of hold our breath until we are sure that no Muslim was involved, because we know that these incidents will be treated differently if a Muslim is involved versus if somebody of another background is involved.
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Crime is a job and it's boring. It's also unpleasant.
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Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
