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Related Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your faili... BERNARD BARUCH Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your faili... BERNARD M. BARUCH Will any of those men under you ever really understand all this? They're professional cynics, and it... RAY BRADBURY Anytime you see a pitcher screw up, you're like, 'Oh, I did that. You know how you've screwed up in ... GREG MADDUX Chester is primarily a balance dog. He's trained to get the phone, pick things up when I drop them. ... LISA WAUGAMAN Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else. DONALD SMITH It's the time of year when planes are full, when hotels are full, when it's very difficult to get a ... CHRIS MCGINNIS Follow up the interview with a phone call. If Carrot Top can figure out how to use a phone, so can y... TOM COLE You just wait for that phone call from your agent, basically. And that's the worst, because they alw... LEMAR MARSHALL wasting what little breath he did have laughing at himself. Because sometimes, that’s all you coul... KELLEY ARMSTRONG You have the entire history of the big phone companies trying to avoid orders by regulatory commissi... JAMES LOVE If they would call me ahead of time, I can hook them up with somebody. All I have to do is make a ph... DENNIS WHITE Defenses, you can screw up but if you react and play hard, you can make up for it and you're still f... DAN PIFER Why just order a pizza, when you can get a restraining order for the delivery guys, make them come t... WILL ADVISE When you think well of others, cheerful with everyone, find the good in all there is, you are direct... SISI MODISE If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL Go to the nearest telephone and call your travel agent or call the airlines and try to get yourself ... KAREN CURE When he called me, my stomach went wrench! ... [I thought], Maybe Dave and I can buddy up and all of... SAMMY HAGAR And when your phone rings, pick it up. Open yourself up to the possibility a phone call offers. Disc... DAN PALLOTTA That's all right. You can call me Frodo. Go on, Dave, it's okay. ELIJAH WOOD When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every sing... NICHOLAS SPARKS I know other estate agencies who used to go round with a vase of fake flowers in the back of the car... JOHN WILLIAMS Only through delayed gratification could you be able to come up with other virtues, character, trait... SUNDAY ADELAJA Rumor has it: when you marry a Walsh you are set for life. Only one thing can screw it up. JESSICA GORDON I equate it with a really new take on 'All in the Family,' where you see our weaknesses, you see our... DEE WALLACE None of us likes telemarketers. But if you do get a phone call go through the process. DOUG MOORE They all sort of get mixed up in my head, to be quite honest. They're all dealing with similar thing... TERRY GILLIAM Dave and Judy, Toby's parents, are still trying to deal with all of it right now. We don't know a wh... DALE RICH By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think ... DARREN ARONOFSKY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio... AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio... SEX AND THE CITY Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ... COLIN WILSON Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ... 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LINDSEY MILLER Pick up the phone and call these businesses that have inquired and not come, or left, and then ask t... MIKE MOORE Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it. NORA ROBERTS When it comes to actually showing exactly what's going on, there's just nothing like a movie. You ca... PATRICK HARTIGAN Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?” “It's purely a defensive device. We s... THEODORE STURGEON Michael gets everyone to go, to pepper the place with fun-to-see celebrities, ... When you show up a... JOAN LUNDEN We have them identified, and one of them we're paying very close attention to. We're in contact with... LT. MIGUEL ROSARIO Sometimes you wish you have the ability to see through the people you are dealing with! REEM AL OLABY I think he's one of those guys that Earl Weaver talked about, when you get into the car, you come to... JIM LEYLAND If you want an MMO, there are plenty out there. The difference with a single player game is that in ... 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MALCOLM MCDOWELL When you come off the court and you feel like you were losing the whole match, and all of a sudden y... MARIA SHARAPOVA The other option you have is to come to terms with this fucking life, as you call it, and put up wit... ARNALDUR INDRIðASON All I've seen is negative campaigning. I can see why people get frustrated with that. You get tired ... NICK RUSSO The road back from degradation begins with self-awareness - and sometimes, as in 'Phone Booth,... ELVIS MITCHELL That?s another thing you don?t realize - that when you do this you get to see why you moved up here ... BURT LINSCOTT Make it your endeavour to commit to positive thinking.Each day when you wake up give yourself a mini... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It is a powerful force when you can do that with one phone call, JOHN KELLY The gym is somewhere you can go to just forget for an hour what you do for a living, what you are do... LUKE EVANS When somebody tells you that something could have been done, that maybe a phone call to 911 could ha... GARY CARTER Together, Outrigger and Hawaiian have established a higher standard for traveling to and from Hawaii... BLAINE MIYASATO See how the jig flutters. I have to get him teased up enough to take it, put it all the way in his m... STEVE ANDERSON Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you,... ROBIN WILLIAMS They can go for a week at a time to be trained by the different agencies. OFFICER ALEXANDER What's nice about acting is that you're not just left with yourself all the time but you get to see ... EVAN RACHEL WOOD When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself, if ... SOURCE UNKNOWN Making a record is a lot like surgery without an anesthetic. You first have to cut yourself up the m... GERARD WAY I just want girls to realize, everybody's born a way for a reason, and you are who you are. You ... NIKKI BLONSKY Every single thing that you learn really just gives you more comfort. It's something I counsel k... CHRIS HADFIELD The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin ... WILLEM DAFOE It's not when you get drafted, it's what you make of the opportunity. To me it doesn't really matter... DAN STEVENSON These plans can be a hassle to use. You have to dial seven digits before the number you wish to call... LINDA SHERRY But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Fallin... RICK YANCEY If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you ca... MITCH ALBOM When you are being tested from every angle, why, with no apparent cause. Look inwards. stand up for ... VIRGINIA TOOLE
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But we've come to realize that we will ne... DAVE BARRY Rembrandt's first name was Beauregard, which is why he never used it. DAVE BARRY Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art... DAVE BARRY I find myself having these conversations where I go...“You know, the guy, in that place. The guy i... DAVE BARRY Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones... DAVE BARRY Ridley is a tea drinker. DAVE BARRY It's a concept I've often thought of. DAVE BARRY You get people from all walks of life here -- who work in domestic service. DAVE BARRY I believe that's one of the finest action regurgitation scenes in the history of literature, ... I'd... DAVE BARRY We became pretty sensitive about it. We visited Great Ormond Street Hospital when we were in England... DAVE BARRY What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge ham... 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If the man has a brain in his ... DAVE BARRY The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winte... DAVE BARRY