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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
Vince Lombardi

Impossible, Accomplish

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.
Steve Jobs

Humor, Good, Friend

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
John Wayne

Great, Trying, Country

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Will Rogers

Learning, Why, Earth

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.
Angelina Jolie

Morning, Mother, Wife

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
Bill Cosby

Best, Rules, Rewrite

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
Nelson Mandela

Love, Political, After

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.
Barack Obama

Health, Care, Important

And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.
Donald Cargill

Eyes, Glorious, Sweetest

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
Steve Jobs

Life, History, Down

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Ernest Hemingway

Time, Made, Talent

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
Bill Cosby

Friends, Play, Childhood

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke

Nothing, Made, Mistake

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
Napoleon Hill

Success, Time, Failure

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
Erma Bombeck

Anyone, Piece, Notice

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass

Power, Nothing, Demand

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Plato

Work, Worth, Nor

I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.
Cat Stevens

Successful, Islam, Person

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
William Blake

Angry, End, Friend

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.
Chris Rock

Life, Stupidity, Wish

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.
Bob Dylan

Nothing, Rest, Owe

Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice.
Michael Jackson

Nice, Heart, Feelings

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
Will Rogers

Good, Bad, Done

They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.
Michael Jackson

End, Through, Try

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
Voltaire

God, Him, Necessary

I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.
Louie Anderson

Hurt, Sorry, Done

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Victor Hugo

Snow, Together, Happen

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.
Ron Paul

Humble, Win, Year

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison

Work, Nor, Accident

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
Robert A. Heinlein

Government, Sense, Universe

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