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Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
Alexander McCall Smith
Building
Manners
Society
Civil
Civil Society
Building Blocks
Blocks
Basic
A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
Alexander Smith
Time
Great
Man
First
Great Man
Something
First Time
Does
Who
Everything is sweetened by risk.
Alexander Smith
Everything
Risk
If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
Alexander Smith
Character
Strong
Distinctive
Weak
Possession
Worthless
Remains
His
Precious
Egotism
Race
Full
Acute
Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
Andrew Carnegie
Own
My Own
Morgan
Partners
His
Grow
Buys
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
Andrew Carnegie
Best
You
Man
Heart
Before
Must
Able
Supremely
His
Brain
Original
Capture
Keep
A lot of times, the press guys ask why I take an hour and a half to come to the interview room, but if you don't do the massage and the ice baths and the stretching and the cooling down and the eating, and your opponent is doing that stuff, they already have an advantage.
Andy Murray
You
Half
Down
Stretching
Interview
Baths
Press
Eating
Guys
Take
Advantage
Stuff
Come
Hour
Hour And A Half
Massage
Opponent
Doing
Lot
Times
Ice
Room
Ask
Your
Cooling
Why
Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier.
Andy Murray
Life
Easier
Would
Having
Knee
Make
Normal
Lot
You've got to love what you do. You've got to like doing it, because it is a lot of your life.
Angus Young
Life
Love
You
Like
Because
Got
Doing
Lot
To Love
Your
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
Anne Grant
Grief
Natural
Feeling
Pain
Increases
Sympathy
Response
Inside
Loss
Normal
Process
Your
Originally
Keeping
I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.
Annie Lennox
Time
Woman
Human Being
Mother
Those
Hopefully
Spin
Hats
Advocate
Artist
Human
Being
Different
Plates
Things
I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.
Annie Lennox
Wonderful
Think
Way
Morally
Could
Take
Scotland
Wonderful Way
Ethically
Stand
I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.
Annie Lennox
Strange
Felt
Always
Little
Strange Thing
Homeless
Thing
The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users.
Annie Lennox
Gay
Something
General
Only
Still
Came
Affects
HIV
Users
Population
Away
Thinks
I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.
Annie Lennox
Hate
Shopping
Will
Extreme
Way
Out
Crowds
Consumerism
Go
Avoid
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
B. C. Forbes
Life
Work
Dessert
Pleasure
Meat
To make headway, improve your head.
B. C. Forbes
Head
Headway
Make
Improve
Your
I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.
Billy Connolly
Algebra
Never
Know
Likely
Learn
Go
Should
Why
If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
Billy Connolly
First
He
Name
Come
First Name
How
Mexican
Jesus
Jew
Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.
Billy Connolly
Life
Day
Me
You
Every Day
People
Car
Drive
Become
Clothes
Live
Every
Changes
Type
Back
Once
Kind
Would
Would-Be
Wear
Life Changes
Mystery
Like
Know
Talk
House
Go
Where
Successful
Successful People
Your
Now
My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
Billy Connolly
Me
Pet
Parents
Tell
Take
Department
Used
Zoo
Im more in love with Rock n Roll today than other things. It grows, you know?
Bon Scott
Love
Today
You
Other
More
Know
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Than
Roll
Grows
Things
I'm handsome, no ands, buts or ifs.
Colin Mochrie
Handsome
Ifs
Buts
Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!
Colin Mochrie
People
Disagree
Will
Believe
Other
Nine
Out
Ten
Always
Person
American
Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises.
Colin Mochrie
Today
Seen
Year
State
Our
Top
TV
Charges
Ring
Immoral
Allegedly
He
Arrested
Line
Dolphin
Famous
Story
Across
Transporting
Two
Tonight
Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.
Craig Ferguson
Me
Physics
Other
Rules
Out
Laws
Never
Than
Worked
Really
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