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Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.
All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.
I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it.
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.
Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
What I've discovered is that my kids weren't watching the 'Today' show... they watch 'Gumby' and 'Bugs Bunny!'
I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
At the end of the day, nobody cares how much you tried, what the deal was, or if you were a good guy or a bad guy.
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.
Life is so fast. And I still remember when I came up to the big leagues and played as if it were yesterday. Time flies.
Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world. There was no choice but to be pioneers; no time to be beginners.
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.
Most of us weren't born with a silver spoon in our mouth, but if life dealt you all the wrong cards, you still have to play.
When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27.
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.
I discovered that my insecurities and my flaws were things that I actually need to embrace, and I let them become my superpowers.
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
One of the positives of getting older is that you forget your age. Then you find out that you're younger than you thought you were.
I grew up with an incredibly loving and supportive family that gave me the impression there were a lot of options for me out there.
If I told you I was a Republican and you were a Democrat, no matter what I said after that, it would be tempered with your opinions.
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever.
Positive energy knows no boundaries. If everyone were to spread positive energy on the Internet, the world would be a much better place.
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.
You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.
I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!