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- Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
- Jay Leno (1950 - )
- The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.
- Roseanne Barr
- We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
- Whoopi Goldberg
- When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.
- Whoopi Goldberg
- I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- But seduction isn’t making someone do what they don’t want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.
- Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 11-29-05
- Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
- Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), Taken Care Of ,1965
- The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), As quoted in The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell by Elizabeth Salter, 1967
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