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I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.
Steve Martin

Love, School, Yourself

John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sense of values. She encouraged us to pursue things we were interested in and not think about what other people wanted us to do.
Caroline Kennedy

Mother, Strong, Woman

But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
Vanessa Kerry

Best, Truth, Fight

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.
Jack Levine

Human, Saying, Direction

You can't really have like high end designers for everything.
Kim Kardashian

End, Everything, Designers

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
Christopher Hitchens

Great, Character, Moral

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
Billy Joel

Experience, Different, Musicians

For NASA, space is still a high priority.
Dan Quayle

Space, Priority, Nasa

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
John Mayer

School, End, Useless

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
Thomas Aquinas

Work, Wise, Sometimes

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'
Jimmy Carter

Strength, Teacher, School

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
Charles de Gaulle

Judge, Leader, Big

If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.
Dolly Parton

Woman, Big, Hair

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.
Alveda King

Money, Children, Poor

Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Yourself, Few, Standards

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
Samuel Richardson

Person, Humility, Cannot

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.
Charlize Theron

Life, Hair, Story

Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?
Rush Limbaugh

Great, Football, Media

It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.
Taylor Swift

Good, School, Strange

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Henry Van Dyke

Down, Ambition, Stand

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.
Lucretius

Another, Sweet, Land

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
Mike Krzyzewski

Positive, Failure, School

I don't even think about a retirement program because I'm working for the Lord, for the Almighty. And even thought the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world.
George Foreman

Thought, Working, Lord

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
Homer

Best, Keep, Spirit

Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
Ovid

Lovers, Smiles, Jupiter

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.
Robert Anton Wilson

Government, End, Stop

Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.
Temple Grandin

Work, School, Children

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
Doug Coupland

Experience, School, American

High heels are pleasure with pain.
Christian Louboutin

Pain, Pleasure, Heels

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
Hal Borland

Night, Moon, Full

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