Best Things Quotes - Page 37

• The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

  Pietro Aretino

  Men, Birth, Born

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• I can say I won a Senior British Open at Turnberry. I think that's the best thing about it, the whole week, was playing this course. It's a challenging, very tough course, under extreme weather. But you know, it's nice to win any event.

  Fred Couples

  Senior, Nice, Winning

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• The best things carried to excess are wrong.

  Charles Churchill

  Excess

  Charles Churchill (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churcill: With memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.35

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• The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can.

  Christopher Fry

  Home, Looks, Lost

  'The Lady's not for Burning' (1949) act 3

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• The best things are not bought and sold.

  Walter Smith

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• If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

  Aldous Huxley

  Learning, Saint, Sage

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• If you want the best things to happen in corporate life you have to find ways to be hospitable to the unusual person. You don't get innovation as a democratic process. You almost get it as an anti-democratic process. Certainly you get it as an antithetical process, so you have to have an environment where the body of people are really amenable to change and can deal with the conflicts that arise out of change an innovation.

  Max De Pree

  People, Innovation, Climate

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• [Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw them wholly on their own resources and on God.

  Lyman Beecher

  Cutting, Support, Atheism

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• E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.

  Nicholson Baker

  White, Sailing, Maine

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• When I got traded to the California Angels, I really wasn't that excited about going to the Angels because it meant changing leagues and also a whole new set of teammates. But shortly after I got there I realized that it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.

  Nolan Ryan

  Angel, California, League

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• When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.

  Tom Cruise

  People, Relax, Attention

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• Series television is either a nightmare or the best thing in the whole world. It really depends on, I think, where you are in your life.

  Sherry Stringfield

  Thinking, Television, World

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• You're so in love with your children that you'd do anything for them; that's not necessarily the best thing.

  Steve Carell

  Children, Love You, Your Children

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• The best thing about becoming successful is that you get flowers all the time.

  Downtown Julie Brown

  Flower, Successful, Becoming

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• The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

  Russell Banks

  Writing, Program, Apprenticeship

  Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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• I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

  Ruth Brown

  Trying, Sound

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• Entrepreneurs, because they need money, they are willing to share their crystal ball with someone like me. That's the best thing ever.

  Ron Conway

  Entrepreneur, Needs, Balls

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• Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Lee Van Cleef

  Funny, Eye, Acting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do.

  Adam Driver

  Jobs, Marine, People

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• The best thing you can do when you're not feeling funny is go out and get more stimuli from the world, get out and walk around, read a book, go talk to some birds or a dog and replenish the well, as it were.

  Rob Delaney

  Dog, Book, Bird

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• The best thing I can make is a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Peanut Butter, Jelly, Sandwiches

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• My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady. And the best thing my mama taught me was to pray.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Grandmother, Simple, Doors

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• The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.

  Willem Dafoe

  Actors, Ready, Flexible

  "Willem Dafoe: 'Don't make this into a crackpot profile, please" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2013.

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• I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

  Kathy Acker

  Thinking, Media, Censorship

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• I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with musicians, for the most part, except for a few select friends, because I don't like to talk about music all the time.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Artist, Thinking, Musician

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