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Robert Benchley

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DOROTHY PARKER I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and fai...
DALE TURNER The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and fai...
DALE E. TURNER Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley ...
JOHN SCALZI It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
VINCENT CASSEL Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN I know they're disciplined and fairly tough. So we're going to have to play well to beat them.
LARRY FINUCANE If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my car...
DAMON HILL I could have been a great many things.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT He's an important writer for The New Yorker, in the same way Robert Benchley and S.J. Perelman were ...
DAVID REMNICK I have learned to delegate.
GWEN STEFANI If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my car...
DAMON HILL Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have d...
CHARLES DICKENS I have absolutely nothing to say.
DENISE GRIFFIN You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great li...
LOIS LOWRY I really like the fact that I can have a life for myself and have enough time to have a great time w...
DAWN LANDAU Jeff: At least I admit that I don't know. I know that things are fucked up, beyond belief, and I hav...
ERIC BOGOSIAN Jeff: I'm saying I don't need a limousine to know who I am, alright?

Tim: Right on. You k...
ERIC BOGOSIAN I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can...
HILL HARPER When I worked at Yahoo, I saw a lot of acquisitions. Some succeeded, and some failed. I think I have...
BRIAN ACTON I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.
[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravesto...
GAIL BORDEN Robert is a great kid, and he's been a leader on and off the floor for us. I know there have been so...
LARRY MCKENZIE I suppose that I have not many months to live: but of course I know nothing about it. I may add that...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I know absolutely that I have done nothing wrong and I am sure that in due course that will be estab...
DAVID MILLS I like to think I'm fairly grounded, and I have friends who will very happily tell me if I'm...
FIONN WHITEHEAD The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a p...
RAVI SHANKAR I just tried to minimize him. I know now he is a great legend. I tried not to get swept up in the ga...
MICKAEL PIETRUS It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'conn...
ALLY SHEEDY My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do...
CHARLES DICKENS From Drew Barrymore to Robert Downey Jr., there's a long list of people who have faced their tro...
CHRIS PINE I have learned that I am a one-woman man.
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU I have seen so many extraordinary things that nothing seems extraordinary to me
VOLTAIRE I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think...
AARON KLEIN Ben and I have absolutely nothing to do with the Hollywood that's all actors and the Sunset Stri...
MELISSA MCCARTHY Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have.
BRUCE RAUNER I'm nosey, and I have a great imagination. So it's not necessarily things I have to go throu...
BECKY G I know many great actors who have small heads.
CATHERINE KEENER I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more
LEWIS CARROLL We haven't discussed this as a committee and until I see evidence, I have absolutely nothing to comm...
BRIAN FOLEY Too many things on my mind, said Wilbur.
Well, said the goose, that's not my trouble. I have no...
E.B. WHITE If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ...
MITCH ALBOM We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our ...
DAN MILLER These are absolutely great science standards. I have no doubt about it, positively no doubt whatsoev...
STEVE ABRAMS If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do ...
RICHARD MARTIN STERN I have everything I thought was important and nothing that really is.
-Lily Francone
LORENA BATHEY I have nothing but good things to say about the defense today.
WILLIE MCGOWAN Honestly, I have no expectations. That's why I'm playing fairly well.
BRIAN DUNCAN I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS I didn't have many ups and downs, and I just tried to par every hole,
TIGER WOODS As a person who has spent my career as a child psychologist and have dealt with many children who ha...
TIMOTHY MURPHY I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I know I don't have many races left. I've trained well for Nagoya.
HARUMI HIROYAMA Don't do it, because you have to do it. Do it, because you love to do it.
PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
JEFFREY FRY I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have a...
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER Many things have been said about what happened, but I don't know either. Maybe someday. One thing I'...
PETE BEST I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the ...
NELSON MANDELA We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with ...
DAN MILLER I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, t...
GARRY WILLS I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD I have learned to be patient.
YUAN YUAN TAN I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
WALT WHITMAN I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
DANA BRUNETTI I have a dream today
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside thi...
SARAH BRIGHTMAN There are many things people don't know about me, and maybe when they read about those things, t...
JAMES ARTHUR During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
FERDINAND PIECH During my career several people have tried to push me out the door, ... Nobody has succeeded yet.
FERDINAND PIECH Personally, I know nothing about sex, because I have always been married.
ZSA ZSA GABOR I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.
JOICHI ITO In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.
FERDINAND PIECH To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
OLIN MILLER To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
OLIN MILLER To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
HENRY KISSINGER Ladies and Gentlemen, great things are about to happen. And I know I am excited about this opportuni...
LEE FISHER …and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing,...
DAVID NICHOLLS One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the ...
KOBE BRYANT I don't know if more things could have gone wrong at the beginning of the game. But the girls respon...
DAVID SMITH Robert Morris is a smaller team and we could have used John, but I needed to make sure all my player...
DAVE CALLOWAY I just didn't know anything about it, and I felt wrong that I hadn't tried to learn, that I hadn't t...
ELIZABETH SMITH There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
A. J. COOK I was absolutely loath to have to go back there, and I went back with great apprehension.
LESLIE FOX I tried to tell them they should pick someone else. I know nothing about golf. I've never even hit a...
BETH MCCALL Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor o...
IGGY POP There's absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do.
OBIAGELI EZEKWESILI The last couple of years I have worked some things out offensively and it's gone fairly well. There ...
DANNY ARDOIN Well, I think we just disagreed on some things, ... And, you know, I do have seniority.
DEL MCCOURY I have been so much looking forward to starting anew this September. We've been working very hard to...
MARTHA STEWART I am absolutely certain, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that all the arms of the IRA have been decomm...
ALEC REID I am absolutely certain, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that all the arms of the I.R.A. have been dec...
ALEC REID Throughout high school, I was fairly boring. I didn't do many rebellious things.
ERIN MORIARTY People are so quick to judge and make decisions for themselves about situations they know absolutely...
LEANN RIMES Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was reall...
ELI ROTH I have a fairly open view about this. There's a wide range of candidates.
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ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno...
ROBERT KENNEDY I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ...
ROBERT KENNEDY If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDY Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
ROBERT KENNEDY Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's...
ROBERT KENNEDY Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividi...
ROBERT KENNEDY Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of i...
ROBERT KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community ge...
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear...
ROBERT KENNEDY All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our t...
ROBERT KENNEDY We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustrati...
ROBERT KENNEDY One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
ROBERT KENNEDY When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes...
ROBERT KRAFT Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.
ROBERT KRAFT We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
ROBERT MUGABE We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
ROBERT MUGABE In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East ...
ROBERT MUGABE Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
ROBERT MUGABE