Random Quotations

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It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.
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Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's weblog, 04-11-2006
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
Walking is man's best medicine.
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Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC)
In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.
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Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895), lecture 1854
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
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Evenius
My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
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Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
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Carrie Fisher (1956 - )
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
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Bill Vaughan
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
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Oriental Proverb
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
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Beverly Sills (1929 - )
If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.
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Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
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Chinese Proverb
When I'm not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It's a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity.
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Maria Irene Fornes
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
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Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.
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Maxims of Ptahhotep, 3400 B.C.
I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
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Garry Shandling (1949 - )
The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.
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Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005), Tragedy and the Common Man
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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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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