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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
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If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
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I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
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A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.
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In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in American history, truly the first time - will not have the same economic opportunities.
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It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.
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They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.
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As long as your heart beats, one is never too old.
