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  • Alfred Hitchcock For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Billy Al Bengston For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days when Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps ran it. At that time, art was taken very seriously in terms of being an artist, and not as a profession.
    Billy Al Bengston
    American artist and sculptor (1934 - )
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  • Andrei Sakharov For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.
    Andrei Sakharov
    Russian nuclear physicist, dissident and activist (1921 - 1989)
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  • Brene Brown For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Avi Arad For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Carmen Busquets For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.'
    Carmen Busquets
    Venezuelan entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor (1965 - )
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  • Agnes Smedley For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Marquis de Sade For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Billy Collins For most Americans, poetry plays no role in their everyday lives. But also for most Americans, contemporary painting or jazz or sculpture play no role either. I'm not saying poetry is singled out as a special thing to ignore.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Bethany Mota For my fragrance, I knew I wanted something sweet but with a different side to it. I have a lot of vanilla notes and bakery shop scents, but then I also have muskier notes that make it a bit edgier. It's fun but also sophisticated.
    Bethany Mota
    American video blogger (1995 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Charles Dickens For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bertolt Brecht For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Lord George Byron For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Benjamin Watson For policemen to be honest about the fact that they may be fearful when they come into a certain situation, not understanding what's going to happen. The only way things will change and things will get better is if people are able to be honest without feeling like they're going to be offended, or they're going to offend someone else.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Austan Goolsbee For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Victor Hugo For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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