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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#doubt #endure #entirely #expected #face

A strong foe is better than a weak friend. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#foe #friend #strong #than #weak

As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that. ↗

— Dick Dale

#beat #boyfriend #country #country music #girlfriend

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#i #interested #less #lot #me

I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#directly #down #had #i #only

It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what? ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#change #company #could #friends #happy

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#calendar #day #getting #know #looked

It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you. ↗

— Frank Dane

#go #hate #make #necessary #out

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging. ↗

— Matt Damon

#anything #business #choices #clinging #down

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#church #end #end result #forbidden #government