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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

There is no education like adversity.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.