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Things won't go perfect. It's all about how you adapt from those things and learn from mistakes. — Michael Phelps

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time. — Marcus Aurelius

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did. — Sydney Pollack

That was one of the reasons why I wanted to tell the story of Colin Price. I saw someone in this fictionalized political character that was trying to do something important for his city. He meant well, but then you see that the human flaws had really derailed his past. It seems to be happening more and more in our country. I wanted to hold a mirror up to that. — Nicolas Cage

Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends. — Wei Jingsheng

If you surround yourself with the wrong people, if you surround yourself with people that constantly tell you how great you are and never tell you the truth and just tell you what you want to hear, I would imagine it would be very easy to get above yourself. — Johnny Reid

I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible. — Al Yankovic

Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity. — John Milton

Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python. — Alice Cooper

Health is very important to me. — Niki Taylor

Just when we are most eager to make ourselves understood, we must strive to understand. Just when we seek to air our grievances, we must labor to comprehend another's hurt. Just when we want to point out the fallacies and abusive behavior of someone else, we must ruthlessly evaluate our own offensive attitudes and behaviors. — Gary L. Thomas

The last thing I need is for my dad to stroll in and see me abusing myself to lighting-fast pornographic images.Military school will become a reality faster than those people are doing it. — Brent Crawford

Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go. — Quincy Jones

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment — Francois De La Rochefoucauld