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Good taste is the enemy of comedy.: Mel Brooks (1926 - )
Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are.: Kurt Cobain (1967 - 1994)
We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.: William Ernest Hocking (1873 - 1966)
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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There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses.: Alan Moore (1953 - ), Watchmen, 1986
Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.: Michael Flatley, (Lord of the Dance) quoted by Eric Celeste
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Frequency of a tragedy does not diminish the wound when it is your own.: Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Feb. 18, 1939 "The Shrike and the Chipmunks"
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club
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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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
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The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.: Jascha Heifetz (1901 - 1987)
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War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.: Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.: Sidney J. Harris
The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Gaudy Night
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You never can see into someone else's marriage.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004