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If you're famous, you have to [be overly generous], otherwise people say, "Eric Idle came in and only left me $4." I always tip more than people expect.

Having a delivery covered by Medicare just isn't going to fly. It's too risky for a woman to put a baby down and not remember where she left it.

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind.

I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who deal with that idea.

There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me.

But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.

It's always hard when you've known a person a long time and then you have to recognise that you have nothing left in common but your memories.

I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.

After paying for the wedding, about the only thing a father has left to give away is the bride.

He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

When I was young I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

When you give people so much, you don't have anything left for yourself.

Sometimes fear made you angry. Perhaps after years anger cooled, like a sword taken from a forge. Perhaps in the end you were left with something very cold and very sharp.

Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.

Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.

More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.

My father was a Social Gospel, far-left liberal, and to some degree a mystic. But we did not have Bible readings; we had prayers.

Someday I will have nothing left to lose. I can't wait.

Elvis has left the building to climb up that heavenly stair. So what if he looks like a wart-hog in heat?

Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.

I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and I really feel like people who have left before me have always stayed with the show. They never really quite left, which is nice. Everyone kind of stays close.

The only person who was a strong public opponent of the war in Iraq is Barack Obama. The other people weren't. So I can understand why all the left is mad, because they're being shut out.

Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.

We examine everything in existence and we come to see that everything is transitory and temporal, that which is left over is God, is eternity, is the Self.

Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left.

Everyone is psychic. Being psychic is not a particular talent. Everybody has a left foot. Some people may just walk with that foot, some people may drag it, and some may learn to dance with it.

When I dive, I dive into a different dimensional plane. I am not in this world anymore. Someone might see the body, but the spirit has left. It has gone everywhere or nowhere.

When self-consciousness stops, there is nothing -nothing left to stop, start, begin or end.

The Chinese used the symbol of tai chi, the undifferentiated reality - no separation, no left and right.

I was left with myself and had to do the one thing I could to survive. I knew it would be difficult to write, very difficult, but I set about doing it.

God always fills in all hearts all the room which is left Him there.

I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.

From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

Ah, no, deployment was delayed after you left. Technical difficulties.” “Oh?” “Yes, it was technically difficult to leave a heartbroken Alpha.

And now, I'm glad I didn't know the way it all would end, the way it all would go. Our lives are better left to chance, I could've missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss the Dance.

I studied opera, and when I left conservatory I told myself I would never sing in public again.

Be careful..you're all I've got left, to remind me who I really am.

Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.

I am Left Wing. I am a Humanist.

She said if she couldn't play, she had nothing left. What about me?

Even the smallest light can grow until there’s no darkness left.

The problem with being a gun rights supporter is that the left hates guns and the right hates rights.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.