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Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

The average life expectancy rate in some parts of Glasgow is 54. If you've ever been there, you'll realize that that's maybe a bit long.

Does anybody has President Obama's phone number? 'Cause I have figure out why the unemployment rate in the United States is so high. Because Zack Ryder's doing all the jobs.

I don't rate them, I just hit them.

Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent-I bet we can do substantially better than that here.

Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

The commitment of government to deal with the population issue is of course essential....There are many ways to make the death rate increase.

I'm at peace with myself. My film just may please audiences. At any rate, it's already a great prize to be part of just 16 films among all of the world cinema out there. I'm tranquil and satisfied.

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

If you play football, theres going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.

Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.

Women vibrate at a slightly different rate that passes kundalini very easily. It is problematic though, because a woman also picks up negative energy, it affects her more.

Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck.

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

We suffer from the illusion that the faster we run, the more likely we are to grasp happiness. The truth is that the velocity necessary for success rarely exceeds the rate of reflection.

American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.

I think what I'm trying to build is a reputation for evolving and for change. Because of the rate of information that we have access to at this point, it's almost hard not to be ever-growing.

Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.

Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world.

The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.

We talk about saving time and killing time when actually we can't do either. We have no choice but to spend it at a constant and flowing rate.

Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas aren't bold enough.

Nonrenewable resources should be exploited, but at a rate equal to the creation of renewable substitutes.

The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl Marx.

He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.

Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.

Where you stand today does not matter; it is the direction in which your are moving, and the rate at which you travel, that count.

At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo - slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space.

Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story.

Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

It is the common failing of an ambitious mind to over-rate itself.

It's funny that they've called homosexuality a crime... At this rate, everyone will be a criminal.

What most Americans mean when they say "the end of the recession" is, "When will it be back to normal? When can we get jobs? When will the employment rate be back to 4 percent or 5 percent?"

Yes, the electoral struggle [in U.S.S.R.] will be animated. It will proceed around numerous very sharp questions, namely, practical questions having first-rate significance for the people.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?