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Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, August 2003
You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see you, and so they kind of know what they're in for. In television, you are sort of sneaking into people's homes. So, I think you can be a little bit darker on stage.: Tina Fey, Interview from Second City, 2008
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Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.: Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Self-Dependence'
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.: Fulton J. Sheen
I dote on his very absence.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
There's some things that people don't admit because they don't like the way it sounds.: Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Plus One Is The Loneliest Number, 2002
I want to hang a map of the world in my house, and then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've travelled to. But first I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.: George Best
I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.: Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-14-04
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
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A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.: Joseph Roux
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No matter how far you travel or how much you run from it, can you ever really escape your past?: Becky Hartman Edwards and Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, Escape from New York, 2000
Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.: Ben Azai, Mishna
To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold.: Archibald MacLeish (1892 - 1982)
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.: Irving Wallace
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.: e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932
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