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Quotations on the topic of ‘best’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.” -Kurt Cobain
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“It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.” -Elvis Presley
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“A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby’s temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who’s boss.” -Tina Fey
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“Speaking of Twitter, I don’t even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!” -Diablo Cody
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“I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.” -Manny Pacquiao
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“The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.” -James Monroe
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“Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.” -Scott Nearing
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“I wanna change the game in way where I’m not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I’ve been given.” -Anthony Hamilton
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“The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.” -John F. Kerry
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“The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don’t wait until you’re on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.” -Morrie Schwartz
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“Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.” -Larry Bird
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“I’m either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life.” -Katy Perry
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“One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you’ve become harmless.” -Liz Smith
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“One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy.” -Scarlett Johansson
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“Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.” -Zack Wamp
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“What I love best in life is new starts.” -Karl Lagerfeld
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“I’ve found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.” -Brandon Routh
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“Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.” -Rick Perry
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“Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.” -Alfred Hitchcock
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“I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, ‘Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?’ and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.” -Daniel Radcliffe
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“A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you’ve got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don’t have that hunger.” -Clive Owen
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“Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.” -Billy Sunday
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“My ‘fear’ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.” -Franz Kafka
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“Man’s wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.” -William Temple
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“The cat could very well be man’s best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.” -Doug Larson
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“The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.” -Bhumibol Adulyadej
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“You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.” -Charles A. Beard
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“I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all.” -William Hung
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“One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.” -Susan Orlean
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“I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.” -Jimmy Carter
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“I don’t think there’s anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.” -Chris Christie
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“Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that’s beautiful.” -Rashida Jones
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“Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you’re willing to stand up within the group and say, ‘It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,’ or ‘It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,’ it’s crucial to say that.”…
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“For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.” -Fiona Apple
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“There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.” -Lee Iacocca
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“Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.” -Bill Watterson
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“Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free.” -Scott Adams
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“Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.” -Tom Felton
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“There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.” -Xenophon
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“I think if you give your best as a parent, then that’s all you can do.” -Heidi Klum
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“It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.” -John Henry Newman
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“He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.” -Herodotus
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“I don’t have the best body in the world, but I know for a fact that I have a really good voice.” -Kesha
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“Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.” -Nicolas Chamfort
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“Yeah, I try to be the best example I can be for young girls just as far as my person goes – just to uphold a good image.” -Miranda Lambert
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“Italians know about human nature – they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.” -Donna Leon
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“The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.” -B. C. Forbes
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“Life is best when you are in love.” -Michael Moriarty
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“Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.” -Henry Van Dyke
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“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.” -Robert Browning
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“I will give you the best I have.” -George C. Marshall
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“If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren’t willing to do.” -Michael Phelps
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“I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.” -Martha Smith
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“If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she’s wearing your best sweater.” -Pam Brown
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“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that’s worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they’ll be joining a life that’s already really good.” -Dan Savage
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“It’s easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It’s fun to get lost in love and romance. It’s the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing.” -Brittany Murphy
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“I think my best work is when I’m kind of in charge.” -Chris Rock
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“I think the best place to work in football is England.” -Jose Mourinho
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“Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.” -Samuel Smiles
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“When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.” -John Lubbock
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“Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.” -John Boehner
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“A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.” -Herbert V. Prochnow
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“I just try to do the best job I possibly can – put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can – you’ve put forth your greatest effort – then I can live with whatever’s next.” -Bill Parcells
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“The best director is the one you don’t see.” -Billy Wilder
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“Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.” -Laura Ingalls Wilder
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“You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.” -Andrew Carnegie
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“When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.” -Edward Abbey
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“I think guitar is the best thing in the world.” -Shaun White
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“When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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“The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us – all of us, but we can do this. Together, we can do this. We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do this.” -Paul Ryan
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“Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.” -Horace Mann
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“The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to remember it once.” -E. Joseph Cossman
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“If it’s flipping hamburgers at McDonald’s, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.” -Snoop Dogg
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“The seven marvels that best represent man’s achievements over the last 2,000 years will be determined by Internet vote… so look for Howard Stern’s Private Parts to come in No. 1.” -Jon Stewart
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“Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.” -Leo Burnett
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“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one’s self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.” -Thomas Hughes
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“The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.” -Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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“As soon as someone tells me: ‘You’re rather sexy,’ I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: ‘You were voted the world’s sexiest man,’ I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? ‘Thank you’ is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world’s sexiest man, anyway.” -Daniel Craig
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“Get the best people and train them well.” -Scott McNealy
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“Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.” -Tacitus
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“Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you.” -Henry J. Kaiser
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“If you play it straight it’s funny – the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.” -Tom Hiddleston
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“Those who know the least obey the best.” -George Farquhar
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“That’s your best friend and your worst enemy – your own brain.” -Fred Durst
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“The things we remember best are those better forgotten.” -Baltasar Gracian
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“To be free from evil thoughts is God’s best gift.” -Aeschylus
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“The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it’s about us, it’s about the reader.” -Ben Okri
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“At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.” -Alanis Morissette
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“Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.” -Anne Lamott
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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… It’s a great outlet. I’m not really sure who I am – it seems I change every day.” -Leonardo DiCaprio
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“The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.” -David Bailey
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“The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.” -Edward Norton
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“We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.” -Will Durant
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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
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“A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun’s position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.” -Lewis Thomas
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“The government’s view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn’t want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.” -Bob Schieffer
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“My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting ‘look at this.’ It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.” -John Bolton
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“I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.” -Andrew Cuomo
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“If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don’t, you’re as dumb as he is.” -Arnold Rothstein
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“Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.” -Edward Bach
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“The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.” -John Walsh
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“The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.” -David Hume
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“No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.” -Maria Sharapova
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“Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he’s the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he’s the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you’re talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers).” -Jerry Saltz
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“I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.” -George Grosz
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“I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.” -Jean Cocteau
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“The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.” -Bruce Springsteen
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“The man who has done his best has done everything.” -Charles M. Schwab
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“My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.” -Joan Rivers
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“Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.” -Gene Tierney
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“I’ve been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I’m working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I’ve done so far.” -Brandy Norwood
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“The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.” -William Feather
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“You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you’re giving to them.” -Harry Browne
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“I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.” -Eric Bana
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“Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.” -Harold W. Dodds
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“Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.” -Marian Wright Edelman
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“If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.” -Denzel Washington
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“Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.” -Peter Ustinov
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“Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.” -Tryon Edwards
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“I felt that it’s best just to be as transparent as possible.” -Rupert Murdoch
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“I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.” -Ruben Blades
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“I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.” -Brian Clough
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“I don’t know the first real thing about the dating game. I don’t know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.” -Jason Schwartzman
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“The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.” -Jim Walsh
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“The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.” -Madeleine Albright
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“Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.” -Jose Saramago
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“Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another’s wit.” -Christian Nestell Bovee
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“The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I’ve always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.” -Cheryl James
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“I know I’m not the best. I’m not the best singer, I’m not the best songwriter, I’m not the best player.” -Kid Rock
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“I’ve been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there’s no place like New Orleans. It’s got the best food. It’s got the best music. It’s got the best people. It’s got the most fun stuff to do.” -Harry Connick, Jr.
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“I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It’s kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It’s thrilling.” -Hugh Jackman
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“Mediocre men work at their best men seeking excellence strive to do better.” -Edwin Louis Cole
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“The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.” -Bryant H. McGill
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“I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.” -Charles Schwab
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“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.” -Theodor Adorno
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“Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.” -Elizabeth Gilbert
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“Central banks don’t have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.” -Mary Kay Ash
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“North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.” -Michael Kors
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“My good friends are Mormon, some of the best people I know.” -Katherine Heigl
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“Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno… I think he’s one of the best hunting dogs in the world.” -Ted Nugent
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“Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.” -Morgan Freeman
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“No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don’t fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.” -Benjamin Carson
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“Townes van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.” -Steve Earle
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“We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we’re capable of.” -Phil McGraw
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“A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that’s not true.” -Mehmet Oz
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“I have very high expectations of myself. I’m a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I’m eventually better than everyone else then so be it.” -Wentworth Miller
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“I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.” -Richard M. Nixon
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“The best way to lose a job is just not to care. When you do not care, it shows in everything you do.” -Bo Bennett
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“Music’s always been really cathartic. It’s the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.” -Ville Valo
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“By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer’s best of weather And autumn’s best of cheer.” -Helen Hunt Jackson
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“But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.” -Homer
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“To not be modest about it, you’ll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I’ve worked with have done their best work by far with me.” -David Bowie
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“Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.” -Juliette Gordon Low
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“Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you’re obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant.” -Chris Martin
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“The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.” -James Cash Penney
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“One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.” -Frank Herbert
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“The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what’s best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.” -Tammy Bruce
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“While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.” -Tom Allen
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“Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.” -Athenaeus
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“Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.” -Doug Coupland
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“Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off.” -Bill Veeck
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“Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that ‘This is going to be terrific’ and ‘This is the best thing I’ve ever done’ and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it’s good or bad.” -William Shatner
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“I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.” -Carlos Ghosn
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“People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.” -Margaret Cho
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“It’s my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.” -R. Lee Ermey
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“Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.” -Miguel Angel Ruiz
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“I’m aware if I’m playing at my best I’m tough to beat. And I enjoy that.” -Tiger Woods
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