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I had a clear vision: if I take up an assignment, I'll do full justice to it; otherwise I'll walk away.
If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.
Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.
Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well.
I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.
Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.
I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages.
At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.
We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.
If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.
I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.
If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day.
After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.
I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.
I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people.
Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
If I had to come back in life, I'd come back as a dolphin... they're always smiling; they're always playing.
My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
If you want something you've never had before, you gotta be willing to do something you've never done before.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.
I think feminism is the worst thing that ever happened to women. Our job used to be no job. We had it so good!
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.
I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.
Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different.
It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.
I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things?
I literally have zero friends. So I like people to adore me, but I never had a talent that made people adore me.
He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'
I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.
I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.
I was naughty but never demanding. I never asked my parents for shoes or tracksuits. I was happy with what I had.
I don't know what I did in this life to deserve all of this. I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'