"The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery."
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"It's better to find a composition through an instrument and to play it and record it because you have something. It's a composition, and the song is good. It lives as a song. The worst is when you have a song and nothing is working well when you produce it. It's not like what you expect in your imagination. It's the worst because it requires a lot of work."
"Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?"
"The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly)"
"You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them."
"The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German."
"What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old."
"We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst."
"The worst thing about touring is the travel."
"It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation."
"It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways."
"The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants."
"Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities."
"I'm the worst person to tell anybody how to date."
"Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise."
"I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company."
"there is no best and no worst, ...those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is"
"The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative."
"To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate."
"As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer."