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A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
Bob Dylan

Person, Naked, Poet

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Barack Obama

Business, Successful, Help

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
Warren Buffett

Ignorance, Pretty, Results

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson

Time, Fight, Why

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
Baltasar Gracian

Person, Off, Show

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
Clint Eastwood

Money, Country, Film

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.
Joel Osteen

Positive, Dad, Him

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake

Nature, Eyes, Joy

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Voltaire

Before, Support, Virtue

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Plato

Rather, Nation, Action

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.
Joel Osteen

Loving, Gays, Nicest

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Live, Knowing, Questions

There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
Yogi Berra

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
Henry Ford

Great, America, Problems

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Good, Bad, Happen

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.
Thomas J. Watson

Time, Everything, Big

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Richard Dawkins

God, Gods, Societies

I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.
Demetri Martin

Love, Trust, Women

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Bill Gates

Idea, Line, Finish

Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.
Bob Dylan

Complex, Formulas

Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice.
Michael Jackson

Nice, Heart, Feelings

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Edgar Allan Poe

Nature, Truth, General

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador Dali

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.
Johnny Depp

Life, Success, Work

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
Rita Mae Brown

Best, Friends, Suffering

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Warren Buffett

Human, Difficult, Easy

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
Aldous Huxley

Soul, Cannot, Fate

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.
Erma Bombeck

Gossip, Baseball, National

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Coco Chanel

Poverty, Opposite, Luxury

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Ernest Hemingway

Failure, Why, Old

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