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Dude, marriage is the 'get out of loneliness free' card in the Monopoly game of life.: Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz, Home on the Strange, 11-09-07
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I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho\'s weblog, 03-23-06
A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.: Jerome Blattner
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There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.: Cyrus H. Curtis (1850 - 1933)
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.: Cynthia Ozick
We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.: Vincent Canby, on the Academy Awards
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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.: Penn Jillette (1955 - ), Interview in WIRED magazine, 1993
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We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.: Granville Hicks (1901 - 1982)
Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that's already broken! You can't get in trouble for wrecking the unsalvageable!: R. Stevens, Diesel Sweeties, 11-06-06
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.: Sir Ralph Richardson (1902 - 1983), quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
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The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Chef Aid, 1998
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You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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