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I know what hard times are like. I didn't grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth. I've had struggles.
From a young age I had a real sense of the world of work. This is what vocational education gives you.
From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
In 1990 I had a nasty car accident and in 1994 my husband Ron Edgeworth died of motor neurone disease.
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
In football, you can win or lose. We always have to be together, with the same spirit we've always had.
I had a clear vision: if I take up an assignment, I'll do full justice to it; otherwise I'll walk away.
If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.
I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.
Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well.
William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.
I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.
Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.
I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages.
We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.
If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.
I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.
I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.
After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.
I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.
If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day.
I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people.
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
If I had to come back in life, I'd come back as a dolphin... they're always smiling; they're always playing.
Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.
My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
If you want something you've never had before, you gotta be willing to do something you've never done before.
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
I think feminism is the worst thing that ever happened to women. Our job used to be no job. We had it so good!
I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things?
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.
I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.