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There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.
Charlie Sheen

Play, Dark, After

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis Bacon

Revenge, Green, Wounds

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake

High, Bird, Wings

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
Robin Williams

Through, Divorce, Word

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill

War, Desire, Individual

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Joseph Stalin

Education, Hands, Whose

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Carl Jung

Through, Overcome, Passed

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
Albert Camus

Good, Society, Today

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
Sai Baba

Life, Change, Nature

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
Napoleon Hill

Mind, Until, Whipped

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Edmund Burke

Opinion, Judgment, Industry

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?
Rush Limbaugh

Health, Care, Country

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Belief, Believes

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
Frederick Douglass

Political, Republican, Party

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford

Give, Succeed, Skill

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
Thomas Merton

Life, Person, Find

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Her, Mistress, Thinks

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Theodore Roosevelt

Peace, Time, Great

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
Henry Ford

Business, Night, Dream

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
James Allen

Truth, Him, Cannot

The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Napoleon Hill

Mind, Battle, May

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
Walt Disney

Human, Laugh, Secret

Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.
Mitt Romney

Strength, Strong, Philosophy

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
Charles Darwin

Best, Worth, Measures

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
Tim Allen

Friendship, Humor, Best

Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.
Matthew Henry

Heart, Him, Loved

Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.
Will Smith

Work, Character, Energy

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. Mencken

Truth, Lie, Hard

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo

Love, Through, Soul

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
Steven Wright

Car, Friend, Friends

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