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A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
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We made a solemn vow not to take any job outside of show business. We borrowed money from parents and friends, rather than take that lethal job waiting tables. This forced us to take any job offered to us. Anything. We once did a show in the middle of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia as part of a fashion show on a hot July night while all around our stage, a race-riot was fully underway. That's how serious we were about our vow.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.: Ken Hakuta
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Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.: Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Dilbert Blog
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.: James Oppenheim
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Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Your child can’t hurt you if you don’t accept the hurt. Let it go.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.: Kathe Kollwitz, O Magazine, September 2002
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.: Sidney J. Harris
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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We turn not older with years, but newer every day.: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.: Jennifer Aniston, O Magazine, February 2004
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
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Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works.: David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008