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There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.
Lunch is like, my first real meal of the day. I cannot eat anything in the morning, my body...I can only eat about two hours after I wake up.
The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.
I can't go to sleep unless I've watched at least two episodes of American Dad on Hulu or iTunes. It just feels familiar. It's like a lullaby.
It is such a social thing, laughing. Two thousand people in a room laughing is such a great buzz and they tend to laugh much more in a group.
But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's ahrdly enough of me left to make one respectable person!
When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him.
If y'can't see with yore own two eyes what's in front of them, then y'better off closin' 'em an' goin' t'sleep, 'tis far more restful! —Gerul
When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.
I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.
The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable.
Two weeks ago we couldn't pronounce your name, but you were in the lead in a film that made millions, so we're sending you all these scripts.
It's very rare that someone who is so good at the language of numbers, is as good at the language of life. They're two very different worlds.
In L.A., I have more of a yard existence, and so I enjoy walking my two little dogs in New York - one's a Maltese and the other's a Shih Tzu.
The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it.
I would say [Lamar] Kendrick, it`s always fun to see what happens when Kendrick takes the stage. And my two oldest kids are huge fans of him.
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
Paris-New York, the two high tension magnetic poles between life, life of the senses, of the spirit in Paris, and life in action in New York.
I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.
You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.
Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone, I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One. I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done.
There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.
I work with a lot of women and yeah I see totally different... My two sisters were different, I have two daughters that are pretty different.
Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")
A curve of silver hung amid the brighter specks; it looked to me like a curved dagger, pretty but deadly, as if it might slice the sky in two.
All women speak two languages: the language of men and the language of silent suffering. Some women speak a third, the language of queens.
Filters are for cigarrettes and coffee," Simon muttered under his breath as they went inside. "Two things I could use right now, incidentally.
I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.
I have killed two people since midnight. I haven't slept in over 24 hours. So maybe you should be a little more afraid of me than you are now.
Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.
England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.
[Two Evil Eyes] was shot in Pittsburgh, and that's where I was born and raised, so it was really nice to be a part of Pittsburgh film culture.
Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.
The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.
It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Yes, I know that’s a weird image.
The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.
Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces , Faith and Love . Prayer is sublime.
I think everyone should sell other people's stuff and their own stuff. I think everyone, almost everyone should mix those two business models.
A study says owning a dog makes you 10 years younger. My first thought was to rescue two more, but I don't want to go through menopause again.
Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!
My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time.
We have two families in life. One were born with that shares our blood. Another we meet along the way that's willing to give it's life for us.
Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily... and the other ends badly.
What is remarkable about Joy Division is the way they are bereft of two of the mainstays of most other rock and pop: longing and supplication.
No two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything like it before, and never will be again.
Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.
There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best. I loved 'Terminator 2.'
The government's the one thing that's not supposed to grow. The U.S. economy is supposed to grow. The two things can't really happen together.
There really aren't any deletes [in The Hanover movie]. There's like one or two deleted scenes but they're not important or meaningful scenes.