"Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well."
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"When people say, 'If I had my life over again I wouldn't do anything different,' well, I'd do everything differently just for the variety."
"Regardless of how well you can be offensively, if you have a great defense, you can deal with any offense."
"Well, I'm not a natural gym person myself, anyway."
"Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers."
"I am more stupid about some things than others; not equally stupid in all directions; I am not a well-rounded person."
"Well, everybody has a history."
"Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it."
"Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara."
"Everything I know I imagine everyone else knows as well. And then everything that everyone else knows I imagine they know on top of what I know, so I'm constantly anxious about what everyone else knows."
"I swore that I wouldn't be one of those parents who leaves a Bugaboo pram parked in the communal entry hall. Well guess what, ours is there right now."
"I'm not saying I'm not bummed if a movie doesn't do well, but that isn't the final analysis of whether it's any good."
"Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore."
"I find that doing the drums last, coming from a drum history, really works well for me."
"The secret to a fulfilled life is not only to do well but also to do good."
"If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing."
"A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody."
"Well, who’s real? The living or the dead?"
"Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)"
"The tournament means so much to me as well as the things I do in Africa. I thought it could also work well together."