Random Quotations

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The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work.
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Wayne Dyer
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to?
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Tom Hanks (1956 - ), Esquire, June 2006
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
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Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
He can make me love something just by showing me the energy with which he loves it.
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Heather Armstrong, Dooce Plugs In, 07-12-06
All existing business models are wrong. Find a new one.
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Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 11, 08-22-04
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.
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Brooke McEldowney, Pibgorn commentary, 03-31-05
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 12-09-05
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
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Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977), Journal of a Character, 1931
My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.
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Jane Goodall (1934 - )
Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.
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Louis Schwartzberg, TED, the hidden beauty of pollination, March 2011
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
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Jonathan Kozol
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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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