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"Why should you be bogged down with my titles and how I thought about it and my poetic reasoning? No, that's not necessary. Either you're going to be drawn into it [or not]. It's a black hole; gravity should pull you in and you should have that experience."
"Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles."
"On speaking: first, have something to say; second, say it; third, stop when you have said it; and finally give it an accurate title."
"...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'."
"My mother's nickname for me is Positive Patrick. I like to live up to that title."
"Well, the title "An Inconvenient Truth" is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don't seem to accept the truth."
"The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution."
"Leadership is not about executive position or title. It is about connection and influence. At its highest, leadership is all about adding value to the world and blessing lives through the work you do."
"Displaying riches and titles with pride brings about one's downfall."
"Finders were keepers unless title was proven."
"[ Zero Mostel] would tell anyone anything, not to be impolite, but he'd show that he wasn't at all afraid of however much money that person [had] or whatever title they had in a company. It didn't scare him. Mel [Brooks] was very much the same way."
"If we lose our title of "land of the free," what have we got?"
"Here are some funny songs, there are some songs that we didn't even remember. I heard this song that Ringo is singing, I still don't know the title of it, but it is got the most amazing lyrics and it's a quite a good production. And quite a good tun"
"Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor."
"Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility."
"Short chaps evolved naturally, but I didn't title and number them till much later. I like short chaps, like short books too, as a rule."
"Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?"
"A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul."
"Now who is the king of these lewd, ludicrous, lucrative lyrics; who could inherit the title, to put the youth in hysterics; using his music as spirit"
"Promoters compete for fighters, fighters compete for titles."
