Random Quotations

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Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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Peter McWilliams, Life 101
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
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Rita Rudner
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
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Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred.
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Meredith Willson, The Music Man
I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It's been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words.
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Ellen DeGeneres
Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.
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Cullen Hightower
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
There is one person in charge of every office in America and that person is Charles Darwin.
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Charlie Grandy, The Office, Get the Girl, March 2012
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.
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Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
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Mo Udall
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
If I've learned one thing in the 14 years I've been a full-time cartoonist, it's that you can not let anyone else define your professionalism. It has to be a personal ethos to which you adhere despite third party influence or acceptance. The old measuring sticks for professionalism are going away and now more than ever it's time for independent creatives to set the bar. Set it high.
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Scott R. Kurtz, PvPonline, 11-28-2011
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
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Unknown
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones? The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you're supposed to meet.
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Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, The Quest, 1995
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
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Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Rayner Heppenstall, Four Absentees (1960)
The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
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Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
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Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook
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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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