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"I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat."
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"Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."

"Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."

"I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous."

"The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."

"The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."

"For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat."

"Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."
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"Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession."


"I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it."


"Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them."


"I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call."


"Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat."


"I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack."
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