"I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble."
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"The trouble with the younger generation is that they don't stay young for very long."
"If you can convince yourself that you look fabulous, you can save yourself the trouble of primping."
"Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat."
"If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls."
"I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife."
"Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased."
"He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it."
"The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally."
"If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares."
"The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]"
"A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others."
"And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky."
"If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst."
"Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing."
"But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong."
"Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble."
"The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite."
"The troubles came and I saved what I could save. A thread of light, a particle, a wave."
"Michele Bachmann... I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it.... Tutti-frutti. I know I'm going to get in trouble!"