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You can wish as hard as you like but all that really matters is the shape you're in on the day of the race. I've always felt these really big races aren't necessarily won by whoever is the fastest. They're won by the athlete who is the smartest and in the best shape on the day.

And here's the fact: the fact is it doesn't solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, 'Look, every penny you make next year the government's going to take it from you,' it still doesn't solve the debt.

The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are.

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

I think we can work through a lot of these issues.

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.

If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don't fit into their little box.

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.

Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features.

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

The fact is, almost every year since the founding of these United States, our government has lived beyond its means.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves.

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him. But as long as they can knock you back down, it seems like if you're an underdog again, and things do surface, and they think this is real, 'these guys' intentions are genuine and sincere,' it seems like they will embrace you again.

We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO.

It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!