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Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee

Live, Person, Conscience

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.
Giacomo Casanova

Death, Lie, Doubt

I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Political, Writing, Short

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.
Curt Schilling

Death, Game, Spring

When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.
Geoffrey Rush

Time, Yourself, Tough

I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.
Eva Braun

Money, End, Single

People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.
David Petraeus

Truth, Night, Why

I think that anybody who says 'This is the one way to go about being an actor' has probably not done a lot of professional work before.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Work, Done, Actor

Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do.
Roger Ebert

Give, Read, Deserve

I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization.
Kevin Mitnick

Difference, Paid, Hacker

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.
John Burns

Morning, Hands, Manners

I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.
Jane Fonda

Peace, Important, Try

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.
Jane Fonda

Age, Reality, Become

Every record that I've ever made, I listen to it so much before it comes out. As soon as it comes out, I never listen to it again. It's, like, over.
Gwen Stefani

Made, Again, Listen

I was in love with the idea of being in love with a woman way before I was actually in love with one.
Jimmy Carr

Love, Woman, Idea

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.
John Greenleaf Whittier

I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.
Rachel McAdams

I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.
Vanessa Hudgens

Used, Cold, Eat

Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come along. As a result, they get an IQ and linguistic advantage because they are the exclusive focus of their parents' attention.
Jeffrey Kluger

Parents, Focus, Attention

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.
Sun Myung Moon

Love, Children, Feeling

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.
Shimon Peres

Time, Put, Knew

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.
Shimon Peres

Peace, War, Real

Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
Gabrielle Union

Married, Dated, Gamut

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
Logan P. Smith

Life, Live, Self

We're just going to come out and play. We know that we're supposed to win all the games, but if we don't, we just have to take the next game and focus on what we did wrong in the game before and just try to do better at the next game.
Shaquille O'Neal

Focus, Game, Win

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
Ezra Pound

Art, End, Shall

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
Ezra Pound

Thought, Off, Taking

I feel great, very healthy and alive and really happy that I can remember yesterday and I can remember the day before.
Nicole Richie

Great, Happy, Remember

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
Thomas Browne

Makes, Wealth, Charitable

I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?
Vanessa Paradis

Life, Time, Hope

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