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"Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve."
People
"Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with."
Power
"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."
Friendship
"It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering."
Suffering
"There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas."
People
"Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."
History
"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."
Difficulty
"There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer."
Idea
"Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead."
Genius
"Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them."
Saying
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"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed."
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Personal Development
"With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years."
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Personal Development
"In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame."
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Personal Development
"I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit."
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Personal Development
"For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out."
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Personal Development
"I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it."
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"On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles."
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Personal Development
"I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind."
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Personal Development
"I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough."
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Personal Development
"I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too."
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