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My focus has always been on talent over looks. This theme of people putting an emphasis on looks first has been a constant reminder throughout my life that most people don’t see things in the same way that I do.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), What Is Man? (1906)
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.: Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.: W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 - 1963), last message to the world, 1957
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.: Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.: Dr. David M. Burns
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Reality continues to ruin my life.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin and Hobbes
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.: Foster's Law
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.: Charles DuBois
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.: Warren Buffett (1930 - )
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.: From the 1985 movie "Bliss"
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Society and Solitude: Works and Days, 1870
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.': Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.: Louis I Kahn
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The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.: From "Taxi"
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In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.: Ellen DeGeneres, (attributed)
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