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"In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence."
"It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better."
"After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become."
"Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered."
"Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And then you walk a little, shouting the whole time. And so on. Your adrenaline quickly overwhelms your conditioning."
"One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people."
"My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden."
"One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it."
"If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength."
"Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path."
"This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it."
"In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that."
"There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day."
"I live and breathe and do four times as much four times as fast as anyone else."
"And I don't want to sit around. I want to fight four times a year. Whoever's ready, I'm ready."
"I see guys who can't make 10 percent of what I make, and yet they have four Bentleys, three houses, and four bodyguards."
"I was so uncomfortable at a party recently when the conversation droned on about women who are constantly getting married. I was on the edge of my chair, close to squirming in embarrassment because I myself was guilty of four husbands. I finally leaned forward and squeaked, 'But one died!"
"My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion."
"I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic."
"You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps."
