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The best way to get approval is not to need it.
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Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 27, 08-22-04
In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
There's no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2005
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
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William Arthur Ward
I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.
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George Bush (1924 - )
To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.
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Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix, 1999
I don't hire anybody who's not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them.
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Paul "Bear" Bryant, I Ain't Never Been Nothing but a Winner
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
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William Feather (1908 - 1976)
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Ted Turner
She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Henry James (1843 - 1916)
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
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Bill Vaughan
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
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Esther Dyson, Interview in Time Magazine, October 2005
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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Lester B. Pearson (1897 - 1972)
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
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Sophia Loren (1934 - )
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough
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Mario Andretti (1940 - )
What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), 1978
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Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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