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If you do a full-on workout and then eat McDonald's or Wendy's, you're defeating the pur... 
As you get better and better working out, there's no one who can keep up with you running. If yo... 
Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the... 
A team will take on its manager's personality. If it's a laid back manager, you'll have ... 
If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you'll receiv... 
Here's what's nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they're n... 
That's why I hate the outlines and treatments, because all you get are cliches. If you put thing... 
I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, yo... 
People say, 'You will be 30 years old; you're too old. You'll get your nose broke,' ... 
People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violenc... 
I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidenta... 
Youth is a lifestyle; it's not a blessing from God. If we treat our bodies as if they are not th... 
Things like the movie 'Memento' are interesting to me because our memories of the things we&... 
Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not ne... 
If you're a better scorer than me, I'll put you down on the block; you score. I don't ca... 
If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like... 
If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other t... 
People wonder if I'll always be a part of this family and the answer is yes. My family has a lot... 
My parents have always said, 'You'll be so unhappy if you're no more than your career, t... 
If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commer... 
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'... 
If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And y... 
Machiavelli did believe that it was better to appear to be good than to be good. If you're good,... 
Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's ... 
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Tomorrow will be better.”
The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there.... 
If you get good ratings, they'll cover you even if you have nothing to say. 
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If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right. 
If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operat... 
I think you'll do as well as most professionals. Most professionals don't beat the market. L... 
You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, an... 
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A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I'm so... 
Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'... 
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The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the ... 
You have to be OK with your own fears. If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but... 
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Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism... 
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Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right. 
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I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good thin... 
If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn som... 
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe... 
If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around. 
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It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. 
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly. 
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This figure that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver ha... 
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth. 
A third Cato has dropped from the skies. 
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Happiness is a journey not a destination. 
Success is a journey, not a destination. 
No one will do it for you. 
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative. 
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot 
Force works on servile natures, not the free. 
Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n... 
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Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them. 
The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become. 
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee. 
I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiri... 
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. 
Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first. 
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conv... 
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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence. 
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. 
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. 
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions. 
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for th...