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I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.

Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, 'Ask not what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your country actually.

Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?

The learnin' mind is the livin' mind, Meronym said, an any sort o'Smart is truesome Smart, old Smart or new high Smart or low.

Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.

…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He said it. ‘The ocean.

What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you’re like?

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

I know for a fact the reason I'm an actor is because one, two, maybe three people when I was younger saw something that I did, in youth theater or some small play somewhere, and said, "You're good."

One of my favorite sights is to look across a room packed with people with their Bibles in their laps, studying who God is and what God has said- after midnight.

I can't promise I'll never kill anyone again," he once said, strapping a refrigerator to his back. "It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

Everyone said that the NBA could not possibly make it because it had too many black players.

I had read an early profile of [Tony] Blair by Frank Millar in which he said that Blair was very keen on the 'consent principle'.

Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled, or dead?

She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left. 'There,' said the large man. 'The kittens will make your sad go away.

I can remember crawling through the window where he was in the hospital... He said, 'You have a gift... keep training for me.' I s'pose those were the last words he ever spoke to me.

[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch. "Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk," Sal said.

I know it's hard being a single mother baby, he said, but we're talking fundamentals here. Homemade cookies are one of the best parts of christmas. It's an absolute fundamental.

That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.

I may be nervous," I say. "Okay, I'm really glad you said that, because I just went to the back room to put on more deodorant." Sebastian says.

Look right at it. Know you can." Dad said. "Look right at that fear. Fear is the biggest bullshitter.

Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.

No, Mom. I said fine." "It's just your tone." Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor.

I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.

Be still,” he said, voice harsh. “I might not be able to control myself if you step away.

To be fair, that MTV was very cooperative with the film [ "Josie and the Pussycats" ], and this MTV has been very cooperative. I actually didn't even think about it until you said it.

Valerie Sherwood, I said to myself, you're going to die.

God gave humans the truth, and the devil came and he said, 'Let's give it a name and call it religion.'

My dad said, 'In school, be a Catholic. At home, be a Hindu.' So we did both.

My head monk asked how it was walking. I said it hurt without shoes. And he said, 'It hurts on the foot that's down, but the one that's up feels really good - so focus on that one'.

Don't you realize," Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?

I was eating some candy and looked on the wrapper, and it said made from natural and artificial flavors. You could just say flavors.

I saw a transvestite wearing a T-shirt that said 'Guess'.

I think I've definitely had my rock bottom and I think that was probably right before I went into treatment where I said, 'I definitely need help.'

Who said I can't wear my Converse With my dress, well baby That's just me!

never would have said forever if i knew it wouldnt last

I said I would get better with each baby, and I have.

Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.

When we held the first Earth Day, everyone said it was a success because of the huge turnout. It was probably the largest planned event across the country.

I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, 'I'm going to be a hockey player.'

Personally, I think Jim Henson said it best when he said "Anybody got an aspirin? I think I've got a cold."

Over the years, I became more and more interested in the forms and techniques in which things could be said.

My doctor asked me if I smoked, and I said only when I'm working, golfing, or drinking. Then I realized the only time I don't smoke is when I'm home. I didn't even realize I'd become a smoker.

I'd never won the Stanley Cup so I asked Cournoyer right after the final if this was like winning the Cup. He said, 'This is ten times better.' I believed him.

She seemed to mean what she said. She said pretty much this: I retained some lawyers, I have to move on with my life, I am divorcing you, and then she added, I need money.

Grief, he said, is carnivorous.