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Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.

I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.

Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.

The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.

If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.