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A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
Louis Nizer

Thousand, Insults, Graceful

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.
Kim Cattrall

Work, Different, Two

It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian 'wall of separation' between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church.
Jon Meacham

True, Political, Between

All the things that are worth doing, take time.
Mos Def

It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Time, Focus, Long

There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
Ross Perot

Two, Living, Write

Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
Kanye West

I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.
Courteney Cox

Friendship, Great, Laugh

People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.
Anna Friel

Life, Love, Nothing

I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
Daniel Craig

There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.
Cate Blanchett

Ancient, Adhering, Practices

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Annie Dillard

Life, Heart, Give

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
Evelyn Waugh

Alone, Action, Actions

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.
James Buchan

Reality, Understand, Fashion

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
Cyril Connolly

Book, Learn, Ourselves

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
Henry James

Success, Art, Whatever

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.
James Lovelock

Million, Oil, Coal

No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.
Robert Browning

Fight, Himself, Within

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
Harold Pinter

Life, Good, Writing

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.
Paul Samuelson

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
Rollo May

Life, Happiness, Experience

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
Otto von Bismarck

Christian, Seeking, Possessing

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
Robert Staughton Lynd

Saying, Mean, Makes

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
Truman Capote

Writing, Talk, Tv

No one can figure out your worth but you.
Pearl Bailey

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.
Loretta Lynn

Music, Business, Woman

I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.
Dick Gregory

Trust, Looking, Month

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
A. C. Benson

Teacher, Try, Show

Getting revenge on a guy is just not worth it to me. I mean, it definitely sucks at the time, but obviously you're not supposed to be with that person.
Carrie Underwood

Time, Revenge, Person

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Jorge Luis Borges

Nothing, Flattery, Posterity

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