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If you’re... asking yourself why I have this success and you don’t, don’t be angry with me—stop and ask yourself what your issues are that are holding you back.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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I hold ambition of so light a quality that is is but a shadow's shadow.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.: Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004
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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959), 1908
Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.: Gloria Swanson (1899 - 1983)
I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they do it over and over again for months when they figure it out, and how basketball was basically just a slightly more aerobic version of that same exercise.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.: Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951
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When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.: Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.: Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix, 1999
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.: Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.: Doris Egan, House M.D., House vs. God, 2006
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The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.: Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
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Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.: Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), speaking of Katharine Hepburn
Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.: David Broder
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.: Minna Thomas Antrim