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What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay.: Ellen DeGeneres, The Ellen Show, 05-17-13
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.: Mickey Mantle (1931 - 1995), (attributed)
Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
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What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.: Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
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Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Family Feud, 1993
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.: Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001)
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.: Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933), "How to Write Short Stories"
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Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.: Doris Egan, House M.D., The Right Stuff, 2007
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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.: Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.: Bill Vaughan
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.: Sally Kempton
I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.: Roger Moore (1927 - )
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The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing, generosity, thoughtfulness, a talent for civilized conversation.: Francine Du Plessix Gray
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, 1604-1605
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Success only hurts the first time.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 04-01-2006