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We can’t let our insecurities own or destroy us. We have to face them head-on. That was part of the challenge that motivated me to take this journey. I wanted to see what I could do and, more important, I wanted to understand everything that was holding me back.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "Mostly Harmless"
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Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.: Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
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I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.: Robert Bloch (1917 - 1994)
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
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My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.: Rita Rudner
There’s something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.: Isabelle Eberhardt
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It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, Is College Worth It?, 08-21-12
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The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.: George Jessel
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Never promise more than you can perform.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Diaries of Adam and Eve
You don’t have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.: Francis Ford Coppola (1939 - )
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.: Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854 - 1921)
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892
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I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2003
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.: Carl Reiner
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