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Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.'

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married.

I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

You know, it's just tough to get together and do work with somebody.

I try not to get too ahead of myself. I try to be happy where I am.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.

I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

Don't judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the rest of them that's about to judge me. I got court dates every other month. It's me against the world - that's how I feel.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

I figure when you get married, it doesn't matter how much you earn or how much your husband earns, just as long as everything you do for the house is together, while still reserving some part of yourself to be yourself.

What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.