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When I think about moguls, I think like Donald Trump who... owns NYC practically. That's a mogul. I feel like I'm on my way to a lot more, but mogul is a really serious thing. I think it's a word that gets thrown around easily.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it's direction you get in His Word or something He's specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.

In football, the good thing is things can change in a second.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

There is this old thing that a lot of people say - that the worst experiences make the best films. I don't subscribe to it. But I've seen it happen.

I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world.

We always feel threatened by things we don't know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on.

The best thing to do is to get out in front of an audience as much as you can, and learn from the experience.

I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference

We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

Good things that cannot be calculated or quantified are set in motion in your life and in your finances when you give.

I've always been a fan of music where you can hear new things each time you listen.

I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny.

Guilt's a terrible thing.

Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I've gotten happier so it's a damn good thing.

Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?

There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.

The Universe contains three things that cannot be destroyed; Being, Awareness and LOVE

Normalcy to me is enjoying the simple things in life.

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

Practice, the master of all things.

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

Trust that the thing in life that excites you the most comes complete with all the tools necessary to support you in the doing of that thing. It is automatic; it is built in. All you need to do is act on the opportunities that doing that situation brings to you.

It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir.

A joke's a very serious thing.

Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.

My whole life everyone always said 'it can't be done', 'you'll never do it', 'you will fail', 'no one has ever gone from Austria and become a Mr Universe, blah, blah, blah', or when I ran for governor people were sceptical. It was 'you're going to lose' and 'people don't take people from show-business seriously in politics'. So, I've heard all the 'it's impossible' thing but I didn't pay any attention because I believed that I could do it.

We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Together, all things are possible

The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you're not a fanatic around here, you can't cut it.

People who live in the now; those people make things happen.

Dare to believe that good things are possible when you follow your heart.

You get most things in life not by taking, but by giving.

In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I'll be worth a sentence or two.... That's why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won't be anybody's number one, and it's that same old thing: if you're not number one, then what does it really matter?

Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting.

You'd think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much thick, meaty stuff bound you to these people, so many interlocking spirals of history, genetics, common cause, and struggle that it should be the most basic of all drives, that you would strive to protect and love one another, yet this bond that should be the big no-brainer was in fact the hardest thing.

The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that's about the time I started writing decent work.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life.

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?

The work is the most important thing.

Build something that fixes something people are having a problem with, and you're lined up for great things.

There is a very good thing about hating evil. If you hate evil, that's all you will hate

When America doesn't act, bad things happen

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

Obama wants to build such things as smart electrical grids and high-speed rail lines, which will offer big environmental improvements. Another obvious thing is that large-scale project financing is virtually frozen, so a lot of renewable energy projects are on hold. If the system doesn't get unclogged before the developers run out of cash, they will be cancelled. Money matters, and we are racing against time.

There are a few obvious consequences and perhaps one subtle possibility. One obvious thing is that, to stimulate the economy, President Obama has committed to creating millions of green jobs that will leave a legacy - much as Roosevelt's public works did during the new deal.

Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.

We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right - one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in.

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

All living things on earth are kindred.

It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.

Nobody is happy alone. To share experiences is always a good thing.

A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.

To the Maker the archetype, the self-sustainer, human interaction is usually a waste of the most precious thing in his vital existance: time.

You change all the time. Everything changes you.

Tomorrow we will do beautiful things.

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life.

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things.

...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.

The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.

One of my favorite things about basketball is that you can't break it down into some sort of science that makes total sense.

I've never wanted to kill myself over anything major. It's always the little things that do me in.

Mutability is written upon all things.

The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid.

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

Fear is something that can really hold us all back from different things in life. It's important to notice what your fears are and try to conquer them.

She shrieked. "Nora! What happened to the banister!" Good thing she hadn't seen her bedroom yet.

I don't go out with strangers," I said. "Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.

Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.

There aren’t many sure things in life, but one thing I know for sure is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow through on some things.

Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we’re looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow

She strived for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there was something beautiful inside.

My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.

If David Brent is the best thing that I ever come up with, then so be it. What are you supposed to do, time the best thing you do for just before you die?

That's the amazing thing about life. You can just rub it out, like a blackboard, and start again.

I've probably done the odd thing. I've probably done more than I would have done and some things you don't say no to. You don't say no to working with "The Simpsons"... the greatest comedy show on television. You mustn't. Even though going to my bad judgment, I remember saying that all I can do is make this show slightly worse.

There are few things in life that bring as much joy as the joy that comes from assisting another improve his or her life.

The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.

Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.

The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.

An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.

There is a reason why all things are as they are.

We learn of great things by little experiences.