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You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944), The Little Prince
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...: Trieu Thi Trinh
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), when asked to describe radio
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.: Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
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Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.: Jane Howard, "Families"
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.: Alan Saporta
The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 7. Keep your day job., 08-22-04
The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.: Inigo DeLeon
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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.: Wilbur Wright (1867 - 1912), declining to make a speech in 1908
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.: Robert Sternberg
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays (1928), "Dreams and Facts"
I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.: Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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It’s almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.: A. Whitney Brown
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.: Bill Cosby (1937 - )
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