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I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.
I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
A founder can carry an institution only so far, and then others have to step in, even the alumni. That's how an institution becomes one.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.
Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
Stay focused and stay determined. Don't look to anyone else to be your determination - have self-determination. It will take you very far.
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
While we must condemn any misuse of their authority, let's not forget that, by far, police are fulfilling their duty to protect and serve.
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
Beating cancer is personal battle. It was one of the toughest opponents I have faced so far, and I think I did reasonably well. Touch wood.
Whatever happens to bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies are gaining ground and more respect. Ethereum, for instance, has far more transparency.
As far as influences, I listen to a lot of people like Nina Simone and other androgynous voices, almost to make me feel like I'm not alone.
Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.
The romantic love of my life, I'm sure, was Burt Bacharach. I had a few that were wonderful, but I married him, and that's going pretty far.
Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.
There are so many surprises in my life; I don't take anything for granted. I enjoy every experience that comes; I don't think too far ahead.
I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable.
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
I'm not much of a chef, so people keep buying me cookery books to broaden my culinary horizons, but I've not got far past shepherd's pie yet.
Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good meal not far away.
Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.
I think as far as themes, 'Hedwig' is about what music meant to you as a kid and how rock n' roll can save you; that is definitely part of it.
I learn something new everyday about myself as an actor, my capabilities, how far I can stretch myself, throw out emotions I never knew I had.
I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look far for role models.
Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.
I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.
There is a time and place for being in the limelight. As far as being away from the spotlight, well, a certain air of exclusivity is always good.
The distance, being far away from your home, from your family, that's not easy. There are times when you say, 'Wow, what a fight, what a battle.'
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
As far as girly-ness goes, I never wear makeup, if I've got zits on my face I just let them go. So I've always just related to guys on that level.
Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.
Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.
I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.
You don't really get to witness what athletes go through. Like, the sacrifices and stuff like that. It's by far the most amazing, beautiful thing.
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
People need to understand that I came this far being chubby and all that. Imagine how far I could go actually being in good shape and looking good.