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These things are fun. We're restoring something as good as dead and bringing it back to life.


Harold Mentzer

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This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.
MORIHEI UESHIBA James Finch is exactly what I'm looking for, as far as getting back into the race car to have fu...
KURT BUSCH If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.
DR. SEUSS If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good!
DR. SEUSS If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good
DR. SEUSS If you never have, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good.
DR. SUESS We must strive to let go our life as we planned,so as to have life we are destined for & that comes ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA From all the chaos, confusion, disorder, turmoil and pandemonium around her where things are in tota...
LATIKA TEOTIA That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do th...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth readi...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
ADAM LAMBERT As much as these are interesting games and fun for the fans, they are hard to coach.
LEO GOLEMBIEWSKI As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing something or somebody.
EDWARD BLAKE As far as jeans and shirts, I rock a lot of different things.
COLIN KAEPERNICK The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, w...
RACHEL DRATCH Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. I...
CHARLES DICKENS If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring commu...
THICH NHAT HANH Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
GEORGE HERBERT It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
UNKNOWN There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casu...
PATRICK KAVANAGH We've tried to bring fun back to the game and the girls have latched on to us. We (Williams and assi...
BRYAN WILLIAMS And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that H...
RACHEL JOYCE Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.
SUZANNE COLLINS If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.
JODI PICOULT My teaching is by way of starting out with something small, bringing it big and then bringing it bac...
JEFF EVANS As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
NATALIE GULBIS I want to be Miss USA or Miss America. I would bring the trophy back to Nebraska. My interests are a...
GABRIELLE UNION As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dea...
GEORGE HARRISON As soon as you have reached this heaven of indifference, you are pulled out of it. From your heaven ...
JEAN RHYS I saw it, he wanted to buy something he was near to the store I went to see little far from him what...
DEYTH BANGER Now that I am ninety-five years old, looking back over the years, I have seen many changes taking pl...
GRANDMA MOSES It's fun to come back to Winnipeg and see a couple of old buddies, ... This night is bringing back s...
GEORGE CHUVALO As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
ALBERT J. NOCK Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
DAVID KOECHNER Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And tune his merry note,
Unto the ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Even as dead bugs they are still influencing these forest ecosystems, ... Science.
LOUIE YANG There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip...
KATHLEEN TURNER These are functions they don't normally do every day. We're using the horse as a tool to help stretc...
ANNE LARSON How we accept the things happening is called life. If expected or good things are happened,we forget...
ANANDHA The Portuguese call it saudade: a longing for something so indefinite as to be indefinable. Love aff...
ANTHONY DE SA If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth readi...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I think I don't take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it's a fun life. I take my mu...
BRUNO MARS Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your l...
ROBIN HOBB As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
AL YANKOVIC Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.
DONALD TRUMP It’s not as easy as you’d think, burning a dead creature. Flesh and skin want to cook and crisp ...
CHRISTINA HENRY I know that Liz Meriwether likes to keep things as honest and complicated as life can be, which is r...
HANNAH SIMONE As far as I'm concerned, the best acting class is life.
JAKE MCLAUGHLIN Anyone who takes the sure road is as good as dead. It
C.G. JUNG As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go s...
MICHAEL FASSBENDER When these kids do things right, they're as fun as any team I've ever coached. We just need to show ...
LANCE MOORE The selected achievements are the result of multi-disciplined researches and they have contributed t...
BAI CHUNLI We are all dedicated to getting these institutions back up and running as quickly as possible,
BRIAN COWEN Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that'...
TOM PETTY Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people'...
ED SHEERAN It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing hap...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Volunteers were bringing medicine into the back door of my pharmacy as waves of people came up from ...
WARREN WINSTON For books are not absolutely dead things, but ...do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and ex...
JOHN MILTON As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.
RACHEL ROY Taking a five-year hiatus allowed us to get our lives back together, our heads back on straight, and...
DUANE PROPES Now that I am ninety-five years old, looking back over the years, I have seen many changes taking pl...
GRANDMA MOSES Most of the evidence from the field, we are compiling them and very shortly because were very concer...
JACOB KABAKOLE There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has alrea...
KATHY IRELAND No, most cities aren't dealing with these issues, but most cities aren't bringing in as many shows i...
EILEEN LACARIO Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo p...
BUZZ ALDRIN As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
GARRY TRUDEAU As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.
SASHA LANE A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
JOYCE MEYER Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
DICK VAN DYKE Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
JEF RASKIN As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
JON BATISTE As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.
TROY BROWN Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.
DAVE MADDEN I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as a...
ALICIA WITT Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as act...
JOHN MILTON He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
ALBERT EINSTEIN He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
ALBERT EINSTEIN I don't regret anything I do, ever, whether articles I've done or things I've said. And ...
EVA LONGORIA If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do thing...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN College can seem stressful, but you have just as much fun as you can. Those were good years. You did...
BRUCE SMITH I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape as in...
GOTTFRIED BOEHM Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.
SUZANNE COLLINS It was a mistimed tackle, and not malicious, but we would not win an appeal. When players are as com...
SCOTT MARTIN As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND There's something else there as well, something entirely her own. An ability to look into the confus...
SUZANNE COLLINS In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
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HAROLD PINTER I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
HAROLD RAMIS The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
HAROLD TAYLOR If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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HAROLD WILSON A week is a long time in politics.
HAROLD WILSON Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
HAROLD WILSON I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
HAROLD WILSON We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
HAROLD WILSON I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
HAROLD WILSON One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.
HAROLD WARNER Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
HAROLD WARNER The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
HAROLD WARNER We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
HAROLD TAYLOR I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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HAROLD SIMMONS I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm do...
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HAROLD SIMMONS The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
HAROLD RUSSELL I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.
HAROLD RUSSELL My life is a series of things that just happen.
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HAROLD ROSS Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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HAROLD ROSENBERG Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.
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HAROLD RAMIS I was raised Jewish and fully embrace the core beliefs of Judaism - the ones that I identify as core...
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HAROLD RAMIS We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
HAROLD PRINCE One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.
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HAROLD PRINCE A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
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HAROLD PRINCE Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great star...
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HAROLD PRINCE The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad thing...
HAROLD PRINCE I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move th...
HAROLD PRINCE I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
HAROLD PRINCE I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really c...
HAROLD PERRINEAU I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had e...
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HAROLD PERRINEAU The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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HAROLD NICHOLAS In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
HAROLD MACMILLAN At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a stat...
HAROLD MACMILLAN Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
HAROLD MACMILLAN No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
HAROLD MACMILLAN It's no use crying over spilt summits.
HAROLD MACMILLAN (A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
HAROLD MACMILLAN When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
HAROLD MACMILLAN There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
HAROLD MACMILLAN To be alive at all involves some risk.
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HAROLD MACMILLAN I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
HAROLD MACMILLAN Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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HAROLD LARWOOD In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.
HAROLD LARWOOD Cricket was my reason for living.
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HAROLD KUSHNER Exporting oil would not drive up prices at the pump. American drivers buy refined products, which th...
HAROLD HAMM Certainly, Continental has taken advantage of pipe and sponsored pipeline projects where we could. A...
HAROLD HAMM Business people across the world are seeing the possibility of Donald Trump being president, and thi...
HAROLD HAMM Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
HAROLD HAMM A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.
HAROLD HAMM The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking ...
HAROLD HAMM I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my car...
HAROLD HAMM Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.
HAROLD HAMM I started working in the oilfield upon graduating high school. I was on the service end of it, drivi...
HAROLD HAMM I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.
HAROLD HAMM President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.
HAROLD HAMM President Trump will release America's pent-up energy potential, get rid of foreign oil, trash p...
HAROLD HAMM I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.
HAROLD HAMM I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to En...
HAROLD HAMM No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.
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HAROLD EVANS For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
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HAROLD EVANS The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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HAROLD COFFIN When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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HAROLD COFFIN I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
HAROLD BUDD I'm not really a pianist.
HAROLD BUDD I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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HAROLD BUDD I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.
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HAROLD BRODKEY It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and the...
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HAROLD BRODKEY Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were le...
HAROLD BRODKEY Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
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HAROLD BRODKEY Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
HAROLD BRODKEY If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretens...
HAROLD BLOOM If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is ...
HAROLD BLOOM Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of...
HAROLD BLOOM All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind...
HAROLD BLOOM No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every c...
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HAROLD BLOOM I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a...
HAROLD BLOOM Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of...
HAROLD BLOOM I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
HAROLD BLOOM I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
HAROLD BLOOM I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
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HAROLD BLOOM The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been in...
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HAROLD BLOOM In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
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HAROLD BLOOM Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overh...
HAROLD BLOOM But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we h...
HAROLD BLOOM Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
HAROLD BLOOM So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets h...
HAROLD ACTON Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
HAROLD KUSHNER The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and ...
HAROLD PINTER We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do...
HAROLD MACMILLAN A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this...
HAROLD MACMILLAN My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel...
GALE HAROLD I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
GALE HAROLD