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When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.

I support building a soccer stadium in the District of Columbia, and I support investing public dollars to get it done.

When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.

I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.

I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I was an extremely shy person. I could barely say hello to anybody.

Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.

I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I know it's a bad pun.

I just try to keep getting better every day, and that's all I can do.

I just get up in the morning and say: 'Yeah man, I'm ready to score goals.'

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done.

We only get together when there's a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn't really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52's tour was a good opportunity.

With time some poems just fall by the wayside. Other poems get better over time with revision, revision, revision. My ladybug poem took 10 minutes to write but was 10 years in the making.

Show business is like riding a bicycle - when you fall off, the best thing to do is get up, brush yourself off and get back on again.

The more business gets involved, the less fun it is.

I think if I could not get myself off my cushion, off my couch, or away from whatever I'm eating - or drinking or partying or whatever - if I couldn't get away from that, I would have a heavy heart.

You're never allowed to step on people to get ahead, but you can step over them if they're in your way.

You don't get over a broken heart/ You just learn to carry it gracefully.

Luck happens when preparedness and opportunity get together.

This card is sent to cheer you As you're confined to bed I'm sure it'll feel all worthwhile In the happier days ahead.

When I was in my 20s I wasn't sure of myself. Now I can really stretch. I don't have to stay in the box. At this point I can say to myself, So what if I fall, so what? I'm going to get back up.

I feel most sexy when I'm in love. My stomach flips. I get butterflies.

It's easy to get bogged down in bad news.

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.

But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei

When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.

There is a lot more to me than just walking guys down. I have speed, I have power, I have a crazy uppercut, I can move to the side. There are a lot of ways I can get it done.

I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don't require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I'll take a powernap during the day.

If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.

When you get punched, you have to get up.You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.

New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.

There was a time in my recuperation and healing where I just had to tell myself it is just time to get up and live your life the way you want to live.

And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football.

There's this emotion we all feel of being overwhelmed at times, feeling that you can't get ahead. For me it's self-imposed because I'm so driven and I'm always going from project to project.

Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with.

It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.

The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.

It was good to learn so early. They're not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better.

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.

I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me.

Oh, it's nice to get up in the mornin', But it's nicer to lie in bed.

The government can't get away with large-scale famine, but it can get away with chronic hunger. It has become an accepted part of life in India.

We really need to get it together here. I think we humans are so brilliant and creative, can't we try something else?

After I've done a good job, then I can get excited. Obviously, it would be very easy to get carried away, but I wanted to own that excitement.

I've so much left to explore, it's enormously exciting to me. It's a passion. I just try and get better at what I do, and I study it very hard, like it is my life degree.

You never know, I might get back into coaching someday.

I'll keep making videos as long as they're fun and can get better!

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.