Random Quotations

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Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished.
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Leslie Nielsen (1926 - )
Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.
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Louise Beal
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
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Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
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Christina Baldwin
I want to change the pop world one sequin at a time. Artists tend to take themselves way too seriously and don't enjoy the fun of making an impact on culture. I just have a good time and sequins represent a good time.
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Lady Gaga (1986 - ), BBC Breakfast, 04-21-09
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
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Peter De Vries
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Devil's Disciple" (1901), act II
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
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Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.
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Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.
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Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
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Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
You don't need to outdo the competition. It's expensive and defensive. Underdo your competition. We need more simplicity and clarity.
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Jason Fried, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.
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Margaret Cho, weblog, 10-30-03
Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
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Jim Bishop
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
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Harold Taylor
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
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Garth Brooks, Country Music
You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - )
The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.
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Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.
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James Gordon, M.D.
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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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