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One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It's like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It's easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.

I don't throw a lot of parties. I find throwing parties a bit intimidating.

Bill Murray made the headlines by throwing me down and stomped me on the set with Clemson.

I'm not big on throwing out the phrase 'right reasons' in Bachelor world. I feel like it's used too often just because someone is going about a situation in a different way than you.

Actually, I started throwing the stiff-arm in college. I had some big plays in college from the stiff-arm.

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch.

My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in.

If I weren't a writer, I think I might have thrown myself more enthusiastically into advertising. But, it's difficult to imagine being a diligent copywriter. It would be quite exasperating for me.

As far as producing, I was thrown into it on a film called Beasts of No Nation when we were in Ghana three months after I retired.

I get football facts thrown at me by taxi drivers.

I think on stage I would like a cheeseburger to be thrown at me.

'Minecraft' certainly became a huge hit, and people are telling me it's changed games. I never meant for it to do either. It's certainly flattering, and to gradually get thrust into some kind of public spotlight is interesting.

Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.

There's probably as many rules of thumb to wrestling as anything in the world, and then there's just as many exceptions to every one of those rules because somebody doesn't fit that thumb.

As a general rule of thumb, Democrats do better in national elections when the year's defining issue is economic fairness, and Republicans do better when the defining issue is national security.

My entire book was typed with three fingers and a very confident space-bar thumb.

While my favorite book of short stories is Fredrick Brown's 'Nightmares and Geezenstacks,' my favorite single story is 'Sound of Thunder,' by Ray Bradbury.

Last Thursday, our Supreme Court backed that local governments can co-opt private property, and give it to another private entity, for economic development.

My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.

More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.

The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus making it rather difficult to ignore when studying the human condition!

I have thus given you a full statement of all that I know respecting the origin of Mormonism.

Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences.