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Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.: Ernie Kovacs
You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.: Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.: Alan Turing (1912 - 1954)
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.: Bruce Grocott (1940 - )
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.: Gordon Parks
It's not a 9-5 job. It's an every moment you're awake job because you actually enjoy the work that you're doing.: Jeffrey Kalmikoff, Designing for Community with Zero-Advertising Brands, SXSW 2006
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999
Sometimes, a person who likes your work and a person who don’t will show up within milliseconds of each other to let you know how they feel. One does not need to cancel out the other, positively or negatively; if you’re proud of the work, and you enjoyed the work, that is what’s important.: Wil Wheaton, WIL WHATON dot NET, 12-07-13
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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.: Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
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We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.: May Sarton
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Election Night Speech in Chicago, 11-04-08
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.: Margo Kaufman
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.: Sebastian R. N. Chamfort
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If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.: Brendan Francis
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.: Indian Proverb
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Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.: Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992