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There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.
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Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.
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Margaret Cho, I'm The One That I Want, 1999
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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Jean Houston
My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.
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Jeff Foxworthy
My favorite animal is steak.
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Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
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William J. Broad
Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.
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National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
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Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
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Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
So many people miss out on true talent because they can’t get past a look. At the end of the day, losing weight was easy, but finding talent? Now that’s hard.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
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Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994)
Literature is news that stays news.
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Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972), ABC of Reading (1934) chapter 8
Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980), In Simon Rose, Classic Film Guide (1995)
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
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Stephen Nachmanovitch
I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.
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Moby, quoted on CNN.com, March 2005
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
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Rodin (1840 - 1917)
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.
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Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.
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The Work of the Chariot
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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