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Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 08-23-11
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.: George Ade (1866 - 1944), "Fables in Slang", 1899
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The best way to try to motivate somebody is by being direct with them. To be honest with them. Lies are never the right way to get your message across.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, My Future Self n' Me, 2002
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.: Mickey Mouse (1928 - )
I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.: Zach Braff
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despairâ€“the sense that you can never completely put on the page whatâ€™s in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.: Stephen King (1947 - ), On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000
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You can't please all of the people all of the time, and last night all of those people came to my show.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005), stand-up
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.: Doris Day (1924 - )
If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The First Part of King Henry the IV'
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You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.: A. L. Kitselman
All existing business models are wrong. Find a new one.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 11, 08-22-04
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.: Ben Shahn (1898 - 1969)
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You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.: Cecil Baxter
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.: Nelson Mandela (1918 - ), 'A Long Walk to Freedom'
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It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)