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My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.: Jessica Alba
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.: Joan Rivers (1935 - )
Television has raised writing to a new low.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)
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My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.: Andy Rooney (1919 - )
I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.: Demetri Martin, New York Magazine, October 3, 2005
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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There is properly no history, only biography.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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Sometimes you feel other people's pain worse than your own. We're armored against our own troubles. We can't afford to give in to despair. Then you see someone else struggling, and it breaks your... heart.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
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Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.: David Hume (1711 - 1776)
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.: Comte de Buffon (1707 - 1788)