There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track.


Josh Radnor

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You can't think; you just gotta do things.
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Be all that you can be.
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If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!
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Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.
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Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
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There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge...
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Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
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Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed
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There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly en...
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Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.
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I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I ...
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The less we know the more we suspect.
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My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart in...
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
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Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed ...
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The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.
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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy...
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Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it ge...
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Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
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Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
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There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.
JOSH GROBAN
Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will ...
JOSH HARTNETT
You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.
JOSH LIEB
If you write a post and put it on a blog, that's a historical document. If you change your template,...
JOSH GREENBERG
Gratitude can sometimes be as annoying as whininess.
JOSH LIEB
It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.
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Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense.
JOSH LIEB
Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and peopl...
JOSH LIEB
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
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It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all...
JOSH LIEB
The language that we use now impacts on the ability to vote, it impacts on the marketplace; instead ...
JOSH HOMME
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit n...
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