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I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.: Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003
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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.: Sir Frederick G. Banting (1891 - 1941)
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Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.: Tom Robbins (1936 - )
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.: Ramsay Clark
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Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), in New York Times, 1985
If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975)
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.: Mae West (1892 - 1980)
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There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ), Parliament of Whores (1991)
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.: William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)
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Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971)
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty- five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Salmon of Doubt
I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.: Frank Deford
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see you, and so they kind of know what they're in for. In television, you are sort of sneaking into people's homes. So, I think you can be a little bit darker on stage.: Tina Fey, Interview from Second City, 2008
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Actions lie louder than words.: Carolyn Wells
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