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"I am a big believer that everybody has unusual, and certainly untapped, potential. The more people like that we can line up with their skill set and with their abilities, the more success we get to have."
"I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all."
"Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion."
"There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed."
"A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle."
"Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow."
"I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line."
"All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut up in a single book, Bible or Veda or Koran, or in a single religion. The Divine Being is eternal and universal and infinite and cannot be the sole property of the Mussulmans or of the Semitic religions only, - those that happened to be in a line from the Bible and to have Jewish or Arabian prophets for their founders."
"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines."
"The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help. And when you can improve that ability all the way up along the line, you've improved about all there is to improve about a person."
"My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass."
"Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not."
"History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags."
"I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me from the fear."
"We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen."
"Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds."
"The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it."
"I've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It's absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I'm okay. It's like I'm out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me."
"I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future."
"I stick to the script, I memorize the lines, cause life is movie that I've seen too many times."
