"There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who……" — Tom Waits

"There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his face… I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else’s. That’s a difficult statement to live up to, but then I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there."

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A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with… — Melody Beattie
I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to… — Warren Beatty
My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what… — Martha Beck
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your… — Valerie Bertinelli
In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is… — Ezra Taft Benson
That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes. — Jeff Bridges
This is our world and we need the same things to survive. If I'm making my life better and the… — Gisele Bundchen
I know I'm not gonna please everybody when I make a record. I don't let that affect any of my… — Jason Aldean
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There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us. — Benjamin Carson
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