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- The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Under Western Eyes, 1911
- How my achievements mock me!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act IV
- Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.
- Bob Thaves, "Frank and Ernest", 1982
- Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
- Jimmy Wales, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
- I don't understand the sizes anymore. There's a size zero, which I didn't even know that they had. It must stand for: 'Ohhh my God, you're thin.'
- Ellen DeGeneres
- The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was noone on the other line. Once she said "God Bless you" I said, "I didn't sneeze" She looked deep into my eyes and said, "You will, eventually." And damn it if she wasn't right. Two days later I sneezed.
- Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One
- I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. For one thing, there's morning sickness. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before.
- Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One
- I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
- Ellen DeGeneres, on Oprah Winfrey 1995
- In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "Self Reliance"
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