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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, Getting

Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
Samuel Goldwyn

Ignore, Attention, Pay

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
Bette Davis

Husband, Her, Flowers

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.
Steve Harvey

Great, Failure, Teacher

It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.
Lena Dunham

Success, Forward, Yourself

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
A. A. Milne

Waiting, Others, Sometimes

Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.
Michael Badnarik

Nothing, Gun, Mercy

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Jack Kerouac

Failure, Control, Fault

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
Richard M. Nixon

Experience, Political, Winning

I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.
Lady Gaga

Love, Music, Themselves

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.
George W. Bush

Between, Committed, Acts

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Leadership, Great, Young

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
Horace

Mind, Why, Weak

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Horace

Small, Feet, Shoe

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
George Santayana

Revenge, Passion, Sometimes

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
Tony Wilson

Enjoy, Last, Themselves

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.
Jodi Picoult

Gay, Nothing, Different

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
Jane Austen

Sorry, Mind, Give

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
Boris Pasternak

Life, Beauty, Value

It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
Hedy Lamarr

Funny, Women, Men

These little grey cells. It is up to them.
Agatha Christie

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.
Sitting Bull

Good, Home, Try

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
Peace Pilgrim

Great, Freedom, Care

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
Rita Rudner

Mother, Live, Build

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold

Justice, Living, Cannot

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.
Marguerite Duras

Love, Men, Simply

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
Marcel Proust

Love, Woman, Small

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
William Hazlitt

Truth, Few, Ourselves

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
Louis Armstrong

Music, Stop, Musicians

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
Kin Hubbard

Men, Sins, Punished

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