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Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

I hope my music sets up the platform for me to be able to do lots of things - to have a cowboy-boot line, maybe, or do a perfume or makeup deal.

There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters.

Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend.

In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.

I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down towns, and woods, and fields, whose care and work hitherto hath been like bees, only to get honey to their own hive.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.

We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

My weight went up and down like a yo-yo.

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.