"The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever."

-- Gilbert Gottfried

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“The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”

Source : "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 36 (1751)
“though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.”
“A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.”

Source : Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.28, Penguin
“I love having other people sing my songs.”
“One of the greatest handicaps is to fear a mistake. You have stopped yourself. You have to move freely into the arena, not just to wait for the perfect situation, the perfect moment... If you have to make a mistake, it's better to make a mistake of action than one of inaction. If I had the opportunity again, I would take chances.”
“As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.”
“I have to be honest in asking myself: Do I really want to know and do God's will? Or is it rather that I want God to do my will? Do I go to God with the assurance that I want only to know and do his will? Or do I rather first make my own plans and then insist that God make my dreams come true?”
“Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.”

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