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The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them fully developed in someone else.
Alain De BottonRead
When the others grew tired and went home and there was no one else to play with I used to play my own Test matches on the porch of our house, using a broom handle or a stick as the bat and a marble as the ball. I would arrange the pot plants to represent fielders and try to find the gaps as I played my shots.
Brian LaraRead
For years I was a rock climber and nothing else. I went to school, yes, and university, yes, but in my heart I was a rock climber.
Reinhold MessnerRead
I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what unites me with everyone.
Franz WrightRead
One of my fears is not writing. I don't know how to do anything else.
Paul TherouxRead
As big as my ego may be, I'm really not of the belief that I can't be replaced. I didn't invent the wheel. There's someone else out there who can do what I do, maybe a little differently. I believe that Kiss is bigger than its individual members.
Paul StanleyRead
I love music, I've always done music, felt it on a spiritual level and I write for myself and not anybody else.
MontaigneRead
When I play my match, I can't think about anything else except what I'm doing on my side of the net.
Venus WilliamsRead
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
Edward CokeRead
The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.
Kofi AnnanRead
I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.
Mary J. BligeRead
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
Paul ValeryRead
Make no mistake: I love women. I'm married to one, I was birthed by one, and I played one in my high school production of 'Romeo and Juliet.' No one else could fit into the bodice.
Stephen ColbertRead
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
B. F. SkinnerRead
No company can be expected to build a nuclear reactor, an oil well, a coal mine, or anything else that's one hundred percent safe under all circumstances. The costs would be prohibitive. It's unreasonable to expect corporations to totally guard against small chances of every potential accident.
Robert ReichRead
Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
Walter KirnRead
Cherish your mistakes, and you won't keep making them over and over again. It's the same with heartbreaks and girls and everything else. Cherish them, and they'll put some wealth in you.
Quincy JonesRead
I don't ask other actors questions. I think that's too intrusive. I just watch. I don't want to be constricted to an idea of what acting is by anyone else. I want to take my own education.
Leonardo DicaprioRead
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
Samuel BeckettRead
In fact, people with mental illness are more likely to be the victims of violence rather than anything else. So it's important that we not stereotype folks with mental illness.
Vivek MurthyRead
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor HugoRead

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