There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don't know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I've never regretted it.
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JACKIE GLEASON If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an... HAMILTON JORDAN I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers u... BRADLEY COOPER I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don... JOYCE DIDONATO If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work,... LARRY SMITH If it's old school friends that my parents know, then I can stay out till late. But if they don&... TENA DESAE You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's imm... ROMAN POLANSKI Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know ... DAN QUAYLE I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going... RANDEE HELLER When 'Supernatural' came out, there were a lot of procedurals and you were either a doctor o... 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LES BROWN I feel like every role you take, there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. ... MILA KUNIS I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - an... DAVID KNOPFLER I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tel... LEE DANIELS That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want ... FRAN TARKENTON It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building comp... STEVE JOBS I've learnt that you tend most to make a div of yourself when you're trying to cover up the ... CAITLIN MORAN It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't thi... JENNA USHKOWITZ The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules... 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You go to some other sporting events, ... BERNHARD LANGER We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, ... BERNHARD LANGER We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it ... BERNHARD LANGER Wherever we play golf, people come out here to get autographs. They obviously come out to watch us p... BERNHARD LANGER You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me. BERNHARD LANGER You know, why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game. BERNHARD LANGER I like reading my bible, I like bible studies where I get together with others and talk about the wo... BERNHARD LANGER Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the las... BERNHARD LANGER It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner ... 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BERNHARD GOETZ And Latin America has become very fashionable, yet what repels me is that everyone in Europe goes an... THOMAS BERNHARD There is nothing more dreadful than having to go walking on one’s own on Monday. THOMAS BERNHARD We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to menta... THOMAS BERNHARD In itself that music festival was nothing special, these music festivals in our country are all alik... THOMAS BERNHARD One is called upon to approach and realize and complete the monstrousness, and everyone has some suc... THOMAS BERNHARD Madonna's got one big choice. Take a couple of years off and become a human being. SANDRA BERNHARD Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's ... THOMAS BERNHARD Wir können uns einreden, dass wir mit einem Buch nicht allein sind, wie wir uns einreden können, d... THOMAS BERNHARD Einerseits überschätzen wir den Andern, andererseits unterschätzen wir ihn und wir überschätzen... THOMAS BERNHARD Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. -Alfred Bernhard Nobel. ALFRED BERNHARD NOBEL Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age ALFRED BERNHARD NOBEL Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance wi... BERNHARD VON BULOW But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight ... BERNHARD VON BULOW English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by... BERNHARD VON BULOW We must also win really sufficient and, above all, practical, guarantees for the freedom of the seas... BERNHARD VON BULOW Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has ... BERNHARD VON BULOW If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. ALFRED BERNHARD NOBEL Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness ALFRED BERNHARD NOBEL The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few Europea... BERNHARD VON BULOW I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptica... ALFRED BERNHARD NOBEL This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an... BERNHARD VON BULOW For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we ... BERNHARD VON BULOW It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us ... BERNHARD VON BULOW