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The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.
George Harrison

Career, Since, Second

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
William Wordsworth

Nature, Late, Soon

I was at a bar nursing a beer. My nipple was getting quite soggy.
Emo Philips

Beer, Quite, Bar

If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
Kim Kardashian

Work, Home, Fitness

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Elvis Presley

Time, Old, Else

I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active.
Harvey Fierstein

Stress, Enough, Kids

Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.
Kin Hubbard

Pretty, While, Above

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
Bette Davis

Marriage, Good, Boring

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
Rachel Griffiths

Dreams, Someone, Nothing

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
Andy Warhol

Living, Learn, Older

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
Casey Stengel

Good, Play, Team

I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.
Andy Griffith

Life, God, Mother

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.
Bernard Meltzer

Life, Family, Business

Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me.
Jim Carrey

Angry, Trying, Old

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.
Jim Carrey

Time, Christmas, Alone

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.
George Clooney

Dead, Older, Option

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.
Jim Carrey

Work, Control, Whole

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.
Stephen Hawking

Universe, Forever, Expand

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.
Michelle Obama

Life, School, Nothing

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.
Demetri Martin

Start, Calling, Letters

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
William S. Burroughs

I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other aspects of my life.
Selma Blair

Life, Focus, Person

'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Simple, Old, Whole

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Samuel Johnson

Money, Few, Ways

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
Josh Billings

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.
Mickey Rivers

Control, Sense, Upset

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
Tom Landry

Leadership, Someone, Achieve

For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.
Stevie Nicks

Forget, Two, Friends

I never thought about getting any tattoos removed.
Henry Rollins

Thought, Tattoos, Removed

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.
Roberto Duran

Makes, Three, Guy

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