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I am in control of all decisions that have to do with my image, which means that no one will decide what’s right for me except me. I’m not special. We should all feel this way about ourselves.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.: Mary Catherine Bateson
Self-control is not a problem in the future. It's only a problem NOW when the chocolates is next to us.: Shlomo Bernartzi, TED Talk: Saving for tomorrow, tomorrow, November 2011
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No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.: Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele.: Bagdikian's Observation
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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.: Wally 'Famous' Amos (1936 - )
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money.: Joe Weinstein
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When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.: Ugo Betti, Struggle Till Dawn
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.: Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
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I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005), Comedy Central Presents
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.: John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.: Wayne Gretzky (1961 - )
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When things are at their worst I find something always happens.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.: Steve Pavlina, How to Win an Argument, 08-31-05
A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library.: Frank Westheimer, Westheimers Discovery
Walking is also an ambulation of mind.: Gretel Ehrlich
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973