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I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.
The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed.
Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.
I'm a really bad driver. When I'm in L.A. my husband always has to park the car for me, because I'm likely to hit something.
There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
The children of less effective, less competent parents will be more likely to adopt the customs and values of the peer group.
Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions.
If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.
Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
When you eat foods high in fiber, you feel full faster, making you less likely to overeat and more likely to have weight loss.
New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes.
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
People are all the time telling me stories: they named their son after me, or more than likely their dog. Or they got a tattoo.
I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.
If you want to reach the top, don't run over others. Likely, the only way you'll reach the top is to be carried there by others.
When you are choosing an MP you need to choose the person who is pretty much likely to be the best representative for your area.
Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.
And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!
If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.
Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
Distributed workforces are most likely to succeed if their culture is one that values and prioritizes face-to-face communications.
We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.
Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.
Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
Every day you don't do something, it makes it less likely that you will ever do something. So you've got to get started right away.
Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.
The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.
An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.
Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
When you are healthy mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually - when you're doing well, you're likely to do good things in life.
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
As SUVs are higher and heavier, they are more likely to kill the people they hit. Driving an SUV in an urban area is an antisocial act.
In my view, a united Ireland is inevitable, and it is certainly more likely than a voluntary coalition which doesn't include Sinn Fein.
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
I would like to promote internal change in Iran - which is more likely if we don't fuse Iranian nationalism with Iranian fundamentalism.
I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.
I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.
A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.
If there is one thing that COVID-19 has shown us, it's the little things that we likely took for granted that made our lives seem normal.
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.