With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.
James K. Polk
Recitation: by Male by Female
I love to star in movies, but I want to have good roles. It doesn't help to get starring roles in something that's no good. I mean, that will just kill you.
Joe Pesci
LoveGoodHelpYouWantMovies
I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I felt fortunate to be able to go to Oakland and put the silver and black on. I wanted to prove to everybody that I could still play.
Jerry Rice
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As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.
Mel Torme
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God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.
Luis Palau
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My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.
Lorna Luft
CompetitionSisterNeverFeltWere
The reality about shooting films is that you can shoot many jokes and decide later which one works. So it's not worth fighting about jokes.
Jay Chandrasekhar
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I was diagnosed with the illness right before the 1995 World Cup.
Jonah Lomu
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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
William Osler
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In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.
Noam Chomsky
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Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.
Martin Freeman
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No one stopped buying I.B.M. because Tom Watson wasn't there, but they stopped buying Elizabeth Arden because she wasn't there.
Leonard Lauder
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