"What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us."
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"When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for."
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"Comedy is much harder, it's a lot more exacting. You can't just be real and you can't just use the same kind of techniques you use to fill up a regular scene."
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"Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used."
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"Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use."
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"Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment."
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"Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can."
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"The theater let me dramatize inner struggles, the push-pull between the inner life and the world, the various selves I presented according to what each world required. And it let me use my body."
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"Sometimes when I'm told to use my own discretion, if no one is looking I'll use someone else's. But I always put it back."
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"The secretiveness. The stealth. Those were obviously the aspects of cocaine use I was addicted to."
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"Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!""
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"One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim."
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"Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer."
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"When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use."
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"In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone."
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"[Wladimir] Klitschko has got the experience, so if Tyson [Fury] waits on him, Klitschko will out-box him. But if he uses his speed and reach it will be a great chance for him to win."
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"I was born in Santa Monica but brought up abroad so I don't use English much."
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"Part of the NAFTA legislation required studies of labor practices, and there was quite a good study that came out by a labor historian on the use of NAFTA to undermine and destroy unions."
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"I like to prepare as much as possible beforehand, but there's definitely that element of fear when you're on set, and you have to be conscious of it and use that fear to drive you to work harder."
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"Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t."
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