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When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
Michael Jordan

God, Respect, Playing

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.
Angelina Jolie

Sex, Die, Everyone

A smart girl leaves before she is left.
Marilyn Monroe

Smart, Girl, She

We should all start to live before we get too old.
Marilyn Monroe

Live, Old, Start

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
Eminem

Famous, Moving, Everything

You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.
Eminem

Best, Someone, Wanted

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Learned, Process, House

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Different, After, Effect

With confidence, you have won before you have started.
Marcus Garvey

Confidence, Started, Won

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
Bernard Meltzer

Yourself, True, Speak

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
Henry David Thoreau

Equal, Thousand, Century

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Napoleon Hill

Bad, Tomorrow, Done

What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
George Carlin

Before all else, be armed.
Niccolo Machiavelli

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
Henry David Thoreau

Best, Wish, Rather

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw

Best, Children, Honesty

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Henry David Thoreau

Best, Calm, Language

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Robert Frost

Life, Art, Care

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
John Wooden

Feelings, Others, Rights

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington

Friendship, Adversity, Growth

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
Warren Buffett

Money, Known, Simply

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw

Pain, Five, Existence

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
George S. Patton

Time, Fear, Important

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
George Bernard Shaw

Time, Twice, Veteran

I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.
Charlie Sheen

Time, Coffee, Fools

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw

Except, Tree, Months

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide

Everything, Said, Keep

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
Mae West

Two, Try, Between

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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
Samuel Johnson

Blessings, Choice, Content

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
Napoleon Hill

Life, Takes, Half

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