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Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different.
I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.
He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'
I literally have zero friends. So I like people to adore me, but I never had a talent that made people adore me.
I was naughty but never demanding. I never asked my parents for shoes or tracksuits. I was happy with what I had.
I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.
I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.
I don't know what I did in this life to deserve all of this. I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'
If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.
I'm a survivor, man. I done had my ups and downs, but I've got get-back skills for real for real. I refuse to fall.
I realized music is the most important thing to me and I love writing songs, and I think I had more to say in life.
I have always had a keen interest in defence and military history and read more on this subject than anything else.
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.
Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.
I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.
If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't have done it. If I had a million bucks in the bank, I wouldn't have done Playboy.
I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
I have to make sure I stay focused and have the same ambition I've always had and work hard - that's the key to success.
I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.
For years I tried to put myself in a box, and it frustrated me, so I had to let go and let the universe take its course.
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
There will be many obstacles in the pursuit of your dreams. I had long hours of training, balancing studies and badminton.
I wish you could see some of the girls I have genuinely had crushes on in my life. They're not the girls you would assume.
I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.
The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.
I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.
In terms of diet, my parents had a restaurant business so I don't eat any junk food - they taught me to appreciate good food.
With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.
I'm so grateful for all the experiences I've had; the life lessons I've learned along the way are just completely invaluable.
I don't come from a family that had the money to put me through college, so I left school with $100,000 in student loan debt.
I think in every lesson there's a blessing, and there's so many blessings from all the lessons I've had to go through in life.
Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
I haven't had Botox because my face is a bit lopsided and I depend on keeping everything animated so that people don't notice.
I was born and raised on a farm, where boys had chores and girls did not, i.e., drive tractors, bale hay, take care of cattle.
I'm always trying to push myself to the limit to see what I can do. It's my strong will that I've always had since I was a kid.
I'm a culinary gangsta with a very spiritual side, so when I was introduced to the 'spiritual gangster' line, I had to have it.
If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
Everything was so new - the whole idea of going into space was new and daring. There were no textbooks, so we had to write them.
I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen.
There's racism everywhere in the world; it's not just Sweden, it's everywhere, but other than that I had a pretty okay upbringing.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.