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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince"
To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.: Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix, 1999
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.: Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994), From "Betting on the Muse"
If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.: Brendan Francis
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It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.: Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
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If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.: Joseph Rickaby
The first rule of business, is never sell something you love. Otherwise, you may as well be selling your children.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 13, 08-22-04
Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
The best way to try to motivate somebody is by being direct with them. To be honest with them. Lies are never the right way to get your message across.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, My Future Self n' Me, 2002
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.: Beverly Sills (1929 - )
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Nothing fails like success.: Gerald Nachman
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.: Amy Vanderbilt (1908 - 1974)
Running cross country is the closest man will ever get to flying.: Joseph Vanderstel
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Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.: Saskya Pandita
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When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.: Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.: Anaïs Nin (1903 - 1977)