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We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

I saw my parents, as immigrants, try and try and try to take root and get ahead and so yes, 'Sweat' resonates with me incredibly. And I was an outsider. So I know very much about that.

People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.

in Los Angeles ... was the thinking-est crowd on earth: how to get ahead, how to mold a better body, how to have a better relationship, how to score, earn, fight, win, get published, be a star.

What I do is I come in the morning and get involved in the character, but I'm always very pleased to leave it at night and have my life.

Trust me, high school ends. You graduate and get away from all the people you never want to see again-it's all good.

If you're not getting better in the summer, you're wasting your time.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

If you asked everybody in a quiet room what they think, they'd say, 'What does the NCAA do really well? We run championships really well.' And yet we have this thing we don't get involved in.

If you really want to see change, and have change, you're going to have to get involved.

You have to create circumstances where your first-tier leader knows what you are trying to accomplish, because he is the one who's going to get it done.

All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.

I get really grinchy right up until Christmas morning.

Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.

If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.

"We don't take sufficient time to meditate." I get up early in the morning...five o'clock, when my mind and spirit are clear and rested. Then I meditate.

Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.

You get really disillusioned, because you thought you were in love. But you realize that you're just alone.

McDonald's is over with. But chips and candy and stuff, it's going to be hard to get away from that.

Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.

I'm an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena - I'm going to stay out of it, right out.

Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.

You are either getting better or getting worse, but you are never staying the same.

If people get together, so eventually will nations.

I'm happy that I can focus on my body a little bit. I'm not happy to get surgery, but I'm happy that I can focus on getting better.

Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.

Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane; another won't get over the right stile.

All I know is that skating is getting better, the guys are getting better throughout the whole age range

Get up every day and try a little harder than the day before.

To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.

One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out.

Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.

It's always exciting to get together with fellow artists to support a good cause.

Persevere and get it done.

You want to get better even after people smash you down. You want to be better than you were before.

The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.

If you go to bed at 10:00 and get up by 6:00 A.M., things will work out for you.

I like working until the morning, so I can see the day and then I like to go to sleep and then get up before sunset. But I love the energy of the morning.

Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.

You come out of a woman and you spend the rest of your life trying to get back inside.

Let's get up here before we get killed!

I still love doing what I do, and I'm really lucky to get up in the morning and want to go to work.

I do have investments, investments in new jobs, investments in education, skill training, and the opportunities for people to get ahead and stay ahead. That's the kind of approach that will work.

Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.

We are not endeavoring to get ahead of others, but to surpass ourselves.

It's important for me to get back to my fans here and around the world. I feel very, very blessed that so many people have continued to write me and to pour out their love for me and my work.

Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.