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In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?: Kanye West, Rolling Stone, 2006
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People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.: Salma Hayek
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The point is that no matter what your feelings are, your children will be better off if you make them your central focus and work diligently at keeping the parenting relationship civil and cooperative.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.: Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), quoted by Lorne A. Adrain in 'The Most Important Thing I Know'
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His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.: Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.: Senator Everett Dirksen (1896 - 1969)
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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.: Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994
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There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.: Robert Half
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Honesty is the best image.: Tom Wilson, Ziggy (comic)
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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.: Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895)
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.: Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
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I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.: George Best
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.: Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge-and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.: Steven Spielberg
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