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I left the White House in 2007. You know, I knew when I went there that it would be for a limited period of time. I was grateful that the average tenure of a white house senior aide is 18 to 20 months. I was there for nearly seven years.

My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.

You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

What the left says sounds very good but, in practice, it works out very badly.

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.

I don't like characters that are left being jerks at the end of the movie.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

And when native man left off this form of development, his humanization was retarded in growth.

When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.

We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo.

I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.

Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.

I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized.

I reject that. I would rather recruit a Racist left winger than a right winger.

I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.

I've got like a week and a half left, all bets are off.