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• At the worst it was eight hours of makeup, and I couldn't sit down; I was in this crouched position. [on the traumas of being an actor in full make up]

  Jim Caviezel

  Makeup, Eight, Actors

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• There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out the best in them.

  Neil Lowe

  Fear, War, Men

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• You know what the worst part about my drinking is? When I'm drunk I slur. You know, like I say racial slurs. Wow, nobody likes that at a barbeque.

  Amy Schumer

  Drinking, Drunk, Wow

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• It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Vortex, Prosperity

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.60

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• I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You seem to prefer the latter.

  Jim Carrey

  Funny, Witty, Worst Enemy

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• Getting laid off was one of the worst things that ever happened to me. But it led to the best results.

  Tom Smallwood

  Optimistic, Results, Getting Laid

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• Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.

  Madeleine de Scudery

  Famous Love, Pleasure, Sweetest

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• We changed our rules. If a player does not have some sot of altercation on or off the court once each month, we fine him...The guys that are our top four scorers, each of them will be required once every two months to appear on MTV. The guys who shoot the worst free throws over a one-month period, next time we have a TV game they're required to look into the camera and beat their chests after they make a good play.

  Gregg Popovich

  Sports, Player, Mtv

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• White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.

  Joan Mitchell

  Color, White, Nurse

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• The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.

  Edward Dyson

  Disease, Nervous, Ability

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• Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why are there so many frauds and so much nonsense? I cannot soon give a solution to these questions ... It was clear that in the United States there was a development not of the best, but of the middle and worst sides of European civilization; the notorious general voting, the tendency to politics... all the same as in Europe. A new dawn is not to be seen on this side of the ocean.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Hate, Ocean, Science

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• Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field, and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Integrity, Artist, Depth

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• How would you describe the worst run you ever had? Precious!

  Hal Higdon

  Running

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• One of the worst days in America's history saw some of the bravest acts in Americans' history. We'll always honor the heroes of 9/11. And here at this hallowed place, we pledge that we will never forget their sacrifice.

  George W. Bush

  Powerful, Hero, Sacrifice

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• To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.

  Roy Innis

  Gun, Racism, Tests

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• ...what will be the outcome of this kind of thing? Holton predicts that "at best, the result could be Muslim enclaves in Western communities in which sharia supercedes native law." Or "at worst, sharia could start to creep into our lives and laws, changing our way of life little by little over time." That would be entirely in line with the stealth jihad goal of Islamizing American society.

  Robert Spencer

  Law, Goal, Community

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• September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.

  Lamar Alexander

  Country, Powerful, September 11

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• In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto.

  Bartholomew Roberts

  Running, Two, Pirate

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• Don't worry,don't worry.Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts,all those big society people.They were the worst thieves-and now look at them.It's just a matter of time.

  Meyer Lansky

  People, Worry, Thieves

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Self-mastery is the challenge of transforming yourself from own worst enemy into your greatest ally.

  Wes Fesler

  Worst Enemy, Self, Discipline

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• Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

  Laurence Sterne

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Criticism

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 3, ch. 12

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• The worst part is not in making a mistake but in trying to justify it, instead of using it as a heaven-sent warning of our mindlessness or our ignorance.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Mistake, Ignorance, Heaven Sent

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• We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will never be used, ignoring the problems of people in this country and around the world, being one of the worst environmental violators on earth, standing against any sort of viable programs to protect the world's forests or to cut down on acid rain or the global warming or ozone depletion. We can ignore human rights violations in other countries, or we can take these things on as true leaders ought to and accept the inspiring challenge of America for the future.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, War, Rain

  "Nobel Prize for Peace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 25, 1991.

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• In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.

  Billie Holiday

  Country, Love You, Recovery

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.220, Broadway Books

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