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We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.: Martha Grimes
I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.: Elayne Boosler
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.: Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), quoted by Lorne A. Adrain in 'The Most Important Thing I Know'
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I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.: Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
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If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.: Ed Meese (1931 - ), on the Hinckley verdict
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.: George F. Will (1941 - )
I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.: Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
- More quotations on: [Education]
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.: John Viscount Morley, of Blackburn
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?: George Price
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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.: Robbie Gass
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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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Let's assume that each person has an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different. To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.: John Fischer
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.: Howard Dietz
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.: Jack London (1876 - 1916)
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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.: John Updike (1932 - )
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.: Mason Cooley, O Magazine, April 2004
- More quotations on: [Time]
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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