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RANDY PAUSCH When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of.
FRANCESCO TOTTI When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which ...
BILL LEE When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which...
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BILL LEE who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.
J.D. SALINGER It's important that nobody gets mad at you for screwing up. We know screwups are an essential pa...
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GREG MADDUX Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?
LEE UNKRICH I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish...
CASSANDRA CLARE We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
RANDY PAUSCH if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
JULIA SOREL Of course it's very hampering being a detective, when you don't know anything about detecting, and w...
A.A. MILNE Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up.
NATALIE COLE Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha!
JEFF KINNEY My fans mean everything to me - especially the sisters! When you're on 'The View' or you...
SHERRI SHEPHERD See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that y...
NED VIZZINI Sometimes when you sneak up on somebody, the next year you can't sneak up anymore. You always have t...
JOE MADDON You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is record...
ART BUCHWALD When you have nothing nobody knows you.
When you have something everyone knows you.
If you're not wi...
REGINA MARIE CHRISTENSON Mom says it's because she has PMS.
Do you even know what that means?
"I'm not a little kid...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Nobody knows how to just shut the fuck up and look out the window anymore.
PAUL NEILAN If you can do anything else in life other than the entertainment business, do that, ... Nobody in th...
MARC SUMMERS You don't cry when someone pushes you down. You get up. You get up and you fight back. And pretty so...
MORGAN RHODES If that's what you get for screwing up the company, imagine the bonus you'd get if you were successf...
EARLE MCCURDY If you give up on life just know death hasn't given up on you, your best choice is to keep on going ...
EZEKIEL O Nobody says you have to be shackled to tradition.
MONICA JOHNSON The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we'...
GUY LALIBERTE Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're screwing around.
CARL PANZRAM I can assure you that nobody finds it exciting to come to the ballpark this time of year and have to...
FIELDIN CULBRETH When you want something this badly, you don't just give up. You fight and fight until you absolutely...
GAIL MCHUGH You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
ART BUCHWALD When someone offends you, it simply means that you haven’t given him enough love.
VIKRANT PARSAI . . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love,...
REBECCA WALKER When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick.
BILL LEMLEY I'm scared of screwing up my kids.
TORI SPELLING A man gets up to speak and says nothing . . . nobody listens . . . and then everybody disagrees.
WILL ROGERS The road to healing is a rocky one, and you need to know that. There are times when every fibre in y...
CORALLIE BUCHANAN In our culture, I think that there is no markers anymore. Young men don't really have something ...
ANTOINE FUQUA I have no regrets except that I wasn't up to keep Randy (Rhoads) from getting on that plane.
OZZY OSBOURNE And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don't have to be just a character, going ...
AVA DELLAIRA Boy, when you are dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enou...
J. D. SALINGER You don't have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don't have to process anything. You can c...
DENNIS QUAID I can assure you that the House Ways and Means Committee has not abandoned trying to extend the divi...
JIM MCCRERY Randy was there so long, and he was put up on such a pedestal. When he does that kind of thing he le...
GUS FREROTTE When you set up your rotation and you have a guy like Randy Johnson, you certainly have a great deal...
JOE TORRE When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family - not even my mother - who I could look to and ...
FRANK OCEAN Love is when you have not been home for three months and call up home and your daughter picks up the...
AVIJEET DAS I'm no stranger to fucking up.
KATHLEEN GLASGOW I believe that we are who we choose to be.
Nobody is going to come and save you. You've g...
BARRY MANILOW Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can...
PATTY MURRAY Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?"...
BILL WATTERSON Listen, Christ,You did alright in your day, I reckonBut that days gone now. They ghosted you up a sw...
LANGSTON HUGHES Never say goodbye when you still want to try, never give up when you still feel you can't take it. N...
WINNIE THE POOH Now, when someone calls and says, 'You haven't picked up my trash,' we can get on the computer and f...
MANNY DIAZ I think that when you are in the limelight it is part of your obligation to be a good role model. A ...
CURTIS JOSEPH We could have easily given up and moved on with our lives. But we wanted to continue and keep playin...
JAMAL CRAWFORD All of us growing up, if you're a professional player or a college player, you're molding yo...
CALVIN JOHNSON Forgiving yourself means that you give up on your hope that the past will be different.
EDWARD M. HALLOWELL If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does...
JOHN DARNIELLE I'm not that young anymore. You're playing dominoes after midnight, it kind of wears on you. You hav...
JIM KOLOS That moment," she told Cath, "when you realize that a guy's looking at you differently—that you're...
RAINBOW ROWELL Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk awa...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?
MATT LAUER To be given the reins of creativity is a beautiful thing when you're used to just showing up to ...
ERIN WASSON Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never wi...
CORMAC MCCARTHY People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.
RACHEL ZOE Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody...
BORIS MARSHALOV Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybod...
BORIS MARSHALOV Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens--and then everybody ...
BORIS MARSHALOV When you give up to try, even the trial gives up on You
STEPHEN .R. ANYAEGBU We finally took the lead and then Randy goes out and what do we do? We walk one and we hit one. Righ...
CHUCK HARTMAN I hoped he'd get up with the ball and be all right. That says a lot when you make a play like that.
FRED RAY This place is screwing me up. It hurts to walk and it's worse to run.
BOBBY CROSBY Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm gro...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Penalties, penalties, penalties. But you know what, nobody on that team ever gave up. Nobody on that...
CHUCK AMATO When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you...
DIANE ARBUS If you continue to give up on everything, how can you expect to have anything?
JEFFREY COLEMAN JR. He's more impressive when you sit down and speak to him in person. That's one of the good qualities ...
BRANDON HOYTE Randy can talk any way he wants in the locker room because he can back up what he says. Randy is ver...
JOE BUGEL Today, we hit the ball when we had people on base, and we haven't been doing that lately. I'm just r...
HERB ESPINOSA When you wake up with a song stuck in your head, it means an angel sang you to sleep.
DENISE BAER When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody compliments you, then comp...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA You won't have the neutral zone bottled up anymore,
JOE SAKIC The truth is I do love you. Admitting that means opening myself up to all that pain when you leave. ...
KELLY MORAN If you have enemies, good that means you stood up for something.
EMINEM Pigpen warned us that the detective fucked you up." Eli says.
KATIE MCGARRY Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you c...
EVELYN GLENNIE To suck it up and do what I did means a lot more than when I was 40th on the money list and everybod...
BILLY ANDRADE Oh, well, I know that Libby." He rolls his eyes. "I've never met anyone more committed to, well, lif...
LUCY HOLLIDAY When we bring this up on the radio, nobody has called up to say 'Jan Hall is a liar,'
PAT CAMPBELL ...and when somebody comes up to me with big hair and gobs of makeup on and says, 'Can I help you,' ...
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spen...
RIC FLAIR Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enoug...
J.D. SALINGER When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to ...
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RANDY WEST Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial t...
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RANDY WEST At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.
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RANDY WEST 'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my...
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RANDY WEST 'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game...
RANDY WEST But day in and day out, the most stimulating part of the work is being a member of a team of so many...
RANDY WEST Yet as a team, we can pull together to do some incredible work.
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RANDY WAYNE I'm very picky about what I'll do and the message the film has in it.
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RANDY SCHEKMAN The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has prop...
RANDY SCHEKMAN Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the c...
RANDY SCHEKMAN I've been loving music all my life.
RANDY SAVAGE Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.
RANDY SAVAGE There are no tough guys in wrestling.
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RANDY SAVAGE I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass th...
RANDY SAVAGE Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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RANDY QUAID I would never walk off any show.
RANDY QUAID I've been racketeered on.
RANDY QUAID I love Canada.
RANDY QUAID I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
RANDY QUAID Acting's more of a business for me now.
RANDY QUAID What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That i...
RANDY QUAID I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.
RANDY QUAID If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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RANDY QUAID My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager...
RANDY QUAID I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
RANDY QUAID Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space...
RANDY QUAID It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.
RANDY QUAID Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.
RANDY QUAID When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all...
RANDY QUAID I love my brother. I miss my brother.
RANDY QUAID I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they ...
RANDY OWEN Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 5...
RANDY OWEN For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a...
RANDY OWEN As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play mu...
RANDY OWEN God has to let you be there, and then you just have to have good fortune for whatever reason. I'...
RANDY OWEN I can't not be who I am.
RANDY OWEN The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to ...
RANDY OWEN I feel very good and positive about my future. I look forward to seeing the fans and doing what I do...
RANDY OWEN The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.
RANDY OWEN The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
RANDY OWEN I like Public Enemy a great deal.
RANDY NEWMAN I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
RANDY NEWMAN I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn'...
RANDY NEWMAN 'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to pla...
RANDY NEWMAN Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
RANDY NEWMAN What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 year...
RANDY NEWMAN But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand wha...
RANDY NEWMAN I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. A...
RANDY NEWMAN I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usua...
RANDY NEWMAN I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yours...
RANDY NEWMAN It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
RANDY NEWMAN I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my song...
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RANDY NEWMAN Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that...
RANDY NEWMAN I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
RANDY NEWMAN I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
RANDY NEWMAN I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.
RANDY NEWMAN Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
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RANDY NEWMAN I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.
RANDY NEWMAN It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't hav...
RANDY NEWMAN Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an in...
RANDY NEWMAN I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I l...
RANDY NEWMAN My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics abou...
RANDY NEWMAN Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
RANDY NEWMAN The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken ...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at ...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
RANDY NEUGEBAUER We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in Americ...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and o...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woma...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our b...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the fed...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures ...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER Border security is a complex issue and will remain a top priority during the 2007 legislative year. ...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosit...
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