With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.


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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.
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Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and...
HUGH BLAIR
He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always f...
HUGH HOWEY
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties
HUGH BLAIR
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and...
HUGH WHITE
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much wate...
HUGH ELLIOTT
I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, a...
HUGH ELLIOTT
Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right ...
HUGH ELLIOTT
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
HUGH ELLIOTT
I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love...
HUGH LAURIE
I feel when acting, I am sometimes overly self-conscious; I think, 'Going, no, don't, put yo...
HUGH LAURIE
I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably a...
HUGH LAURIE
Of course, you always have to be concerned about hijacking. But with the measures that are in place ...
HUGH SHELTON
But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serv...
HUGH SHELTON
Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
HUGH WALPOLE
Fundamentalist Christians, adhering to what is termed 'creation science,' loudly promote the...
HUGH ROSS
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
HUGH PRATHER
I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too o...
HUGH LAURIE
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's m...
HUGH HEFNER
Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.
HUGH GRANT
We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastati...
HUGH SHELTON
And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quali...
HUGH GRANT
Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend...
HUGH MILLER
They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a c...
HUGH SIDEY
The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passe...
HUGH LAURIE
In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.
HUGH HEFNER
Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irr...
HUGH MACKAY
I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which...
HUGH LAURIE
The strange thing - and this is one of the advantages of being incredibly shallow and superficial - ...
HUGH LAURIE
Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining ...
HUGH HEFNER
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
HUGH PRATHER
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in...
HUGH PRATHER
Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
HUGH PRATHER
Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long a...
HUGH PRATHER
I frequently dream of having tea with the Queen.
HUGH GRANT
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
HUGH BLAIR
It's much more straightforward to get finance when you have an Oscar.
HUGH HUDSON
What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew...
HUGH MASEKELA
I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the ...
HUGH LAURIE
I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.
HUGH HEFNER
Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our childr...
HUGH MACKAY
On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a ...
HUGH MACKAY
Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.
HUGH MACKAY
But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem ...
HUGH MACKAY
Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaning...
HUGH MACKAY