Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
Jack Kerouac
Related Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and yo... JACK KEROUAC Never say never, but I don't think I'll ever get Botox because we don't know the long-te... KRISTIN CAVALLARI Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don... CARLENE CARTER Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too ma... ICE T As long as you don't fold up and curl up into a ball, you'll be all right. GIANCARLO STANTON As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed. BARRY STERNLICHT Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chan... BERNARD CORNWELL You get those hunger pains. 'I am so hungry. We don't have any food. What are we going to ea... BEN MCLEMORE Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals. GAD ELMALEH I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give h... LEWIS GRIZZARD Don't get even, get mad. FRANK SINATRA Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on... SAMUEL BECKETT I don't like exercising; I'll be honest with you. CAMILA ALVES That's what I like about acting. You don't know where you'll be in year. DAVID WALTON I always told my young umpires, 'Don't get mad. Whatever you do, don't show it. But no m... DOUG HARVEY Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don'... MARY J. BLIGE If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it, because you'll never look good. L'WREN SCOTT Don't let people see when you're mad - just smile and laugh. ASTRO I like strong girls, as long as they don't get snappish. And furthermore I think it important th... JONATHAN BRANDIS I don't think you'll ever get enough picking. EARL SCRUGGS It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it. FINLEY PETER DUNNE If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back. DAVID HASSELHOFF 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,... LEWIS CARROLL I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it. GARY BARLOW I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on. CARRIE UNDERWOOD Confidence is not, 'They will like me'. Confidence instead is, 'I'll be fine if they... CHRISTINA GRIMMIE Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad. TAYLOR NEGRON Live like you'll die tomorrow, work like you don't need the money, and dance like nobody'... BOB FOSSE The thing about growing old is you have to accept it - if you don't, you'll be as miserable ... JUDY PARFITT I don't think you should ever say, 'This is the last time'. Music isn't like that. Y... ROGER DALTREY We've been asked to do 'Playboy' together, me and Victoria, as a pair. I don't think... DAVID BECKHAM Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It... LARRY SMITH I'm really not good at anything else, so if I don't make it as a musician, I'll probably... ELLE KING It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that.... CHLOE SEVIGNY Most people don't walk around knowing what other people think about them, and I don't think ... CHRISTINA RICCI The thing with gymnastics is people don't always know the events. So they'll ask me about th... MCKAYLA MARONEY Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing. BILL MURRAY Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll ha... MARY SCHMICH Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damne... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattract... JOEL OSTEEN One day, you'll get out of the Marine Corps; you'll put your uniform up, but you'll neve... JOHN F. KELLY We are chained, but you just don't realise it... DEYTH BANGER The deeper you get into the playoffs, obviously the better the opponent is. Which means they'll ... ERIC SNOW If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develo... STEVE WOZNIAK I would never stay under circumstances where I felt I was a figurehead and might look good in your t... JERRY WEST If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. JOHN MALKOVICH I don't believe in having safety nets - you'll end up using them! OPHELIA LOVIBOND You have to make the effort with children. You can't have them thinking that I reckon I'm sp... NOEL GALLAGHER I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through fles... ED WESTWICK You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't ... MARIO BALOTELLI It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have han... MITCH HEDBERG A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than y... STERLING HAYDEN I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on ... ERIC DAVIS You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced. VAL KILMER If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you. JACK L. CHALKER If you don't exercise, you don't stay strong. I like to work with talented people. WILLIAM HURT I don't know how long I'll be competing, but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing... BETHANY HAMILTON My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing... JAMES MARSTERS The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hit soon, I don't know what I'... NAT KING COLE When you make a movie, you don't know how it'll turn out. You can only guess. DAVID MACKENZIE Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice... NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'v... C. S. LEWIS My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, becaus... SHAKIRA I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh beca... PAULA DEEN If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you'll be ineffective. If you're discipline... TOM LANDRY The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respe... HAKEEM OLAJUWON It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take a... TINA WEYMOUTH I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to com... HELEN OYEYEMI People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but ma... MARTIN SCORSESE If you've stacked on the weight over time, and if you don't have any health issues, you don&... BARRY O'FARRELL As long as I have teeth, I'll keep playing. You can't play trumpet without teeth. LIONEL FERBOS You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what... SAM RAYBURN You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're ... ALAN ALDA You don't know that you'll ever have to talk about the skeleton in your closet. MARK MCGWIRE Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty. PENN JILLETTE I think whenever you have a common goal with someone, you're going to bond. It's really hard... BEN SCHNETZER My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean. I was... JOHN C. MCGINLEY If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone.... CARMEN ELECTRA I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That'... DANIELLE STEEL Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the ou... CESAR MILLAN Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're c... RANDY JACKSON 'They' is... stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of 'the... DJ KHALED Never say 'no' to pie. No matter what, wherever you are, diet-wise or whatever, you know wha... AL ROKER I don't mind aging - I'm glad to be aging. I'll never die young. ELIZABETH MARSHALL THOMAS You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want. GEORGE HARRISON I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You ... LADY GAGA Your connections might get you in the door, but it won't keep you there. And if you haven't ... VIC MIGNOGNA I don't think you're human if you don't get nervous. SIDNEY CROSBY I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't kn... ANDERSON COOPER We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. B... NORMAN LEAR I try to create an environment where it's okay to make a mistake, though it's not okay to be... RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON I want to caucus in Iowa. I'll caucus all over the state. I don't caucus in California. You ... PAT PAULSEN I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people t... MICHAEL HUTCHENCE Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it... AL YANKOVIC I've done nothing wrong. Some people just don't like me. Maybe I'm somebody that's e... DANIEL CORMIER If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work. RICHARD HAMMING Just be yourself and be upfront about your expectations and desires. Don't be ambiguous and play... MIKE POSNER If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitati... L'WREN SCOTT One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately... DENIS LEARY
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JACK KEROUAC Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun t... JACK KEROUAC I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic. JACK KEROUAC [...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be s... JACK KEROUAC But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and shambled after as I've been doing all my... JACK KEROUAC After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just... JACK KEROUAC I was just looking at the jukebox. Just playing records. She said, You want to play with me? I sa... JACK KEROUAC Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars. JACK KEROUAC The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved,... JACK KEROUAC I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove. JACK KEROUAC And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We kee... JACK KEROUAC My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. JACK KEROUAC Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end. JACK KEROUAC All of life is a foreign country. JACK KEROUAC I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.' JACK KEROUAC Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you ... JACK KEROUAC What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see ... JACK KEROUAC I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was ... JACK KEROUAC The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view JACK KEROUAC the road is life JACK KEROUAC Dean took out other pictures. I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look ... JACK KEROUAC When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw ... JACK KEROUAC Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all tha... JACK KEROUAC we pass the fields of Perry and Madrone and where they make wine, and it's all there, all sweet the ... JACK KEROUAC Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine... JACK KEROUAC The other man, just as lonesome as I am In this empty universe JACK KEROUAC Hitch hiked a thousand miles and brought You wine JACK KEROUAC Here I was at the end of America - no more land - and now there was nowhere to go but back. JACK KEROUAC And suddenly, not a soul's at the store as for other & similar & just as blank reasons, they... JACK KEROUAC Because he was always tremendously generated towards complete relationship with his women to the poi... JACK KEROUAC Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that. 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