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  • Oscar Wilde People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Clark Kenneth People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
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  • Walter Lippmann People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Euripides People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Bruce Forsyth People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I'm much more relaxed than that.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Amy Tan People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • Barry Lopez People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Brad Delson People think when you get a record deal all your problems will go away. We know that the bigger we get, the more problems we'll have. I guess Puff Daddy was somewhat - what's the word? - prophetic in that respect.
    Brad Delson
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Bode Miller People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Bruce Hornsby People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back.
    Bruce Hornsby
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1954 - )
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  • Eva Le Gallienne People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.
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  • Bodhidharma People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Bill Allred People who read my magazine wax their turtles all the time. - as Larry Flynt
    Radio From Hell (November 1, 2006)
    Bill Allred
    American musician (1936 - )
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  • Carolyn Chute People who work in factories or in the woods or maybe a dairy farm - for years, I've been fascinated with people like that. No pretensions. They just live their lives. I found them beautiful. They were all I seemed to be interested in writing about.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • J. G. Ballard People will begin to explore all the sidestreets of sexual experience, but they will do it intellectually. . . . Sex won't take place in the bed, necessarily--it'll take place in the head!
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Bertie Carvel People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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