A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz. Humphrey Bogart
Acting is experience with something sweet behind it. Humphrey Bogart
Acting is like sex: you either do it and don’t talk about it, or you talk about it and don’t do it. That’s why I’m always suspicious of people who talk too much about either. Humphrey Bogart
A banker need not be popular; indeed a good banker in a healthy capitalist society should probably be much disliked. People do not wish to trust their money to a hail-fellow-well-met but to a misanthrope who can say no. John Kenneth Galbraith
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. John Kenneth Galbraith
A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table – There’s nothing wrong with them, but it’s hard to stop thinking about it. Garrison Keillor
A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever. Garrison Keillor
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. Garrison Keillor
A man can’t eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul. Garrison Keillor
All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn’t sit in the same room with me. Dorothy Parker
Better be left by twenty dears
Than lie in a love-less bed;
Better a loaf that’s wet with tears,
Than cold, unsalted bread.
Dorothy Parker
Brevity is the soul of lingerie. Dorothy Parker
Four be the things I’d have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt. Dorothy Parker
Gratitude: the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world. Dorothy Parker
He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery. Dorothy Parker
All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them. Magic Johnson
Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates. Magic Johnson
Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing. Magic Johnson
Dad didn’t believe in handouts. So as a kid, the only way I could get my hands on any spending money was to go out and earn it. Magic Johnson
Everybody on a championship team doesn’t get publicity, but everyone can say he’s a champion. Magic Johnson
For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball. There’s winning and there’s losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen. But what’s never been acceptable to me is quitting. Magic Johnson
A golfer should always stay with what has become natural. Jack Nicklaus
A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave. Jack Nicklaus
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration and expectation. Jack Nicklaus
All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world. Jack Nicklaus
Augusta National is a young man’s golf course, and you really need a young man’s nerves to play on it. Jack Nicklaus
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