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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.
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Garry Marshall, 'Wake Me When It's Funny'
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
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Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
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Marston Bates
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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Marquis de Vauvenargues
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
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Charles Kuralt
May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.
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Sara June Parker
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
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Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
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Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
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Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471), 1420
I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
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Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
Life is just a bowl of pits.
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Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.
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Roger Moore (1927 - )
Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.
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Neil Diamond (1941 - ), Cracklin' Rose
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.
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Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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Ann Richards
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
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Aung San Suu Kyi (1945 - )
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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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