"He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line."
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""I've always thought there was this underlying thing in Paul's "Get Back." When we were in the studio recording it, every time he sang the line "Get back to where you once belonged," he'd look at Yoko.""
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"God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer."
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"I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others."
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"I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition."
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"I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point."
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"I didn't set a red line, the world set a red line"
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"Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line."
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"What I hear all the time is to stop and listen. When you do a scene 30 times, and know the lines, you stop listening. The point is to listen, that's the only thing that can make it real."
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"There is sometimes only a very fine line between deliberation and procrastination."
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"Almost every officer is going to put their life on the line at some point in their career."
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"It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure."
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"As soon as your mind knows that it's on and it's supposed to produce some lines, either it doesn't or it produces things that are very predictable. And that's why I say I'm not interested in writing something that I thought about. I'm interested in discovering where my mind wants to go, or what object it wants to pick up."
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"There is a fine line between insanity and genius."
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"Eat well, sleep and laugh. When you laugh, the lines go up instead of down."
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"It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones."
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"it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action."
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"I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK because he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And not only that--he has wisdom and patience of his own, buried deep inside his being, which will only reveal themselves over time and will always carry him through any trial. He is a gift from God to all of us."
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"Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not."
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"Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks."
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