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When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
Willie Nelson

Life, Blessings, Whole

Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid.
Chuck D.

Stupid, Yourself, Put

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
Jack Welch

Work, Hard, Idea

Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.
Richard Pryor

Love, Family, Money

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
Alexander Pope

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.
Jon Stewart

Internet, Passing, Notes

I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.
Jerry Garcia

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
Corrie Ten Boom

Fear, Thoughts, Worry

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
E. M. Forster

Great, Men, Often

Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.
Ellen DeGeneres

Love, Freedom, Sleep

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Time, Someone, Give

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Marc Chagall

Love, Interests, Contact

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
Eric Hoffer

Change, Revolution, Used

My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced.
Jennifer Lawrence

Someone, Person, Before

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.
Roger Ebert

Movies, Moving, Friends

Everyone carries around his own monsters.
Richard Pryor

Everyone, Monsters, Carries

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
E. O. Wilson

Energy, Players, Depends

Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.
E. O. Wilson

Love, Humanity, Talk

Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.
Henry Rollins

Find, Late, Summer

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
Paul Newman

Game, Tell, Playing

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.
Albert Ellis

Work, Happy, Gospel

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Few, Dangerous, Reputation

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
Alfred Hitchcock

Best, Everything, Calm

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
Charles de Lint

Friendship, Work, Good

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.
Mick Jagger

Music, True, Wanted

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
Bette Davis

Bored, Talk, Tears

When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.
Jim Henson

Children, Said, Show

The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime's Funniest Person in America. And that's a really tough title to travel around with when you're not even known.
Ellen DeGeneres

Time, Travel, Person

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.
George Lucas

Moving, Matter, Talent

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Life, Good, History

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