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"To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out the essential truth, the essential justice. As a first premise you have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without the conscience, you are just one of many thousands of journalists."
"From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience."
"There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry?"
""Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions."
"In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds."
"I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown."
"The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come."
"I worry about financial security, and the older I get the more I worry about it."
"I'm one of those people who lives for the moment. If you concern yourself with what's going to happen a year from now, or five years from now, you defuse the moment. Whatever comes, comes. For this time I enjoy the ascent. I don't worry about anything except getting thinner thighs."
"Don't worry about being successful. Worry about being significant."
"I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations."
"Today's worries may become tomorrow's priceless experiences."
"When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune."
"Have you murdered anyone in the last day, week, month, year, decade? Probably not. Then don't worry about it. Give yourself a break. You're probably a really fine person."
"I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology - and our ability to accentuate and exploit them - is going to make the notion of pure competition impossible."
"As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her."
"Bein Crazy is the least of my worries."
"...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING."
"I assure you we'll go on making our decisions without worrying whether it pleases or displeases the Soviet Union, China, America, France, or anyone else."
"If I'm happy, I look happy; if I'm angry, I show it. Without worrying about how others may react."
