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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.

These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.

Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.

Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.

I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day.

President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.