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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Fitness is not about being better than someone else... It's about being better than you used to be.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
If you give up at the first rejection or the first bad review, you will never make it in publishing.
When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.
That's been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
Be magnificent. Life's short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.
The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.
I've always wanted to see what Egypt was like when they were building the pyramids or Rome at the height of the empire or Greece — more specifically, Crete before it was destroyed. Why? Because I'm curious how we all hung out on a day to day basis, what was the chit chat, etc. Reading things in a book never gives you the feel.
You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy — that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation — can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival.
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
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