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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 12-09-05
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Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.: Ken Rockwell, Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005
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I have found that everything wants to kill you. For some things, like fast food, or riding a bike, it just takes longer.: Devin J. Monroe (1983 - )
An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so.: Shakti Gawain
If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Malheureux'
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The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.: Alex Levin
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Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.: Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill
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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.: Saki (1870 - 1916)
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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.: Maria Irene Fornes
The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.: Louis C. K., Reddit, 2012
Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.: Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebook, 1935
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Confusion is always the most honest response.: Marty Indik
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.: Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859)
We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn't we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you're able to is almost impossible to comprehend.: Jeffrey Rowland, Sound! 12-22-05
Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.: Kay Ryan
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.: Aaron Rose
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.': William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)