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The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 08-24-04
Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
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Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now.: Mike Myers, Talking about Shrek
Fish and visitors smell in three days.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1736
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
The best mirror is an old friend.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633), 1651
If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.: David Letterman (1947 - )
Whenever I’d try to talk myself out of going for a walk, and there were a few days like that, I’d take myself through a series of simple tasks so I would get up and go. 1. Get up. 2. Find your house keys. 3. Put on some shoes. 4. Grab your iPod. 5. Walk out the front door.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.: Stephen Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.: Henry Allen
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), speech, January 24, 1860
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The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.: Whitney Young (1921 - 1971)
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Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997), in her Nobel lecture
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.: Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974)
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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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