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You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.: Carrie Fisher (1956 - )
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The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.: Carolyn Heilbrun (1926 - )
If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.: Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010
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If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?: Karen Hall and Jerry Stahl, Northern Exposure, Soapy Sanderson, 1990
A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.: Marie De France, 12th Century
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Here's a tip to avoid death by celebrity: First off, get a life. They can't touch you if you're out doing something interesting.: Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, Ask a Ninja, Question 55, 10-03-07
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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.: Jack London (1876 - 1916)
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Bear Who Let It Alone"
Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), misquoting Sir Walter Scott
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I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.: Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.: Hesketh Pearson, Common Misquotations (1934), Introduction
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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.: Konrad Lorenz (1903 - 1989)
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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the mann in which he behaves toward fools.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.: John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)