Best Things Quotes - Page 9

• That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

  Michael Chabon

  Writing, Idaho, Ready

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• The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Patience, Philosophical

  "Living Like Benjamin: Making Dreams Come True". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (p. 143), November 1, 2007.

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• I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

  Frank A. Clark

  Laughter, Life And Love, Humor

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• The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.

  Terri Clark

  Moving, Thinking, Safe

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• Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Country, Hands, Class

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.137, Transaction Publishers

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• Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it's the best thing in the world.

  Simon Cowell

  Kids, Artist, Thank God

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• There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters.

  Courteney Cox

  Motherhood, Doubt, Matter

  "Courteney Cox: ‘Divorce is not an option’". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.mailonsunday.co.uk. December 23, 2008.

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• I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.

  Willem Dafoe

  Thinking, Knowing, Balance

  "Willem Dafoe: 'You do your best work when you're scared'". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2012.

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• I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident - and those end up being the magic. Every time I've followed my gut it's been better than when I've tried to do what I was supposed to do.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Magic, Records

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• The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it. As for myself, I'm not really sure who I am. I change every day.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Change, Character, Who I Am

  "Leonardo DiCaprio storms ‘The Beach’". Interview with David Neil, lasvegassun.com. February 16, 2000.

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• All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Depression

  "The Story of Walt Disney". Book by Diane Disney Miller, Pete Martin, 1957.

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• Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.

  Snoop Dogg

  Loss, Should Have, Done

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

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• Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating.

  David Duchovny

  Cheating, Able, Kind

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• I think the best thing about my job is that I have my life documented, which not many people get to have. They have a photo here and there and maybe some video footage from a birthday. My kids will be able to see me growing up.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Jobs, Growing Up, Kids

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• And you will remember that love is not getting, but giving; not a wild dream of pleasure, and a madness of desire — oh no, love is not that — it is goodness, and honour, and peace, and pure living — yes, love is that; and it is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives longest.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Love Is, World

  "Little Rivers".

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• I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it.

  James Dyson

  Thinking, England, Four

  "Expressing Technology: A Roundtable With Sir James Dyson". Interview with Tim Carmody, www.wired.com. September 19, 2011.

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  Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

  Eminem

  Love, Music, Rap

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• People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

  Brian Eno

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Play

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• Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

  W. C. Fields

  Scotch, Nerves, Bartending

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• 'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.

  Jodie Foster

  Chickens, Taxi, Weirdo

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• My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.

  Al Franken

  Spiritual, Real, Mean

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• Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.

  Al Franken

  Mean, Understanding, Attention

  Al Franken (2004). “Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”, p.31, Penguin

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• The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

  Robert Frost

  Being Yourself, People, Inspire

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• Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

  James A. Garfield

  Swimming, Men, Nine

  "Elements of Success". "President Garfield and education. Hiram college memorial". Book compiled by B. A. Hinsdale, p. 331, 1882.

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• If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Waiting, Too Late, Numb

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