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  • Carlos Alazraqui If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
    Carlos Alazraqui
    American stand-up comedian, actor and singer (1962 - )
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  • Boethius If first you rid yourself of hope and fear
    You have dismayed the tyrant's wrath:
    But whosoever quakes in fear or hope,
    Drifting and losing his mastery,
    Has cast away his shield, has left his place,
    And binds the chain with which he will be bound.
    De Consolatione Philosophia
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • William Somerset Maugham If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bria Skonberg If Harry Connick Jr. wants to call me and ask me to join his band, that would be fine with me. I'm happy, but if he calls, I would pick up.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Cale Yarborough If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.
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  • Caitlin Rose If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
    Caitlin Rose
    American country singer (1987 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Brigham Young If I had the choice of educating a boy or a girl, I would educate the girl. If you educate a boy, you educate one, but if you educate a girl, you educate a generation.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Arthur Miller If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Peter Townshend If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.
    Peter Townshend
    English musician, singer, songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Bob Seger If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you're not really needed by your family, but you're there. And my kids like to know I'm there.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Bret Easton Ellis If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Bobby Cox If I were on the field, I'd want the manager sticking up for me. Sometimes players are dead wrong, ranting and raving, but you stick up for them. They appreciate that.
    Bobby Cox
    American baseball player and manager (1941 - )
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  • Beyonce Knowles If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Benjamin Clementine If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I'm aware of it, no matter what happens, I'm always going to have a fake self, and I'm not going to judge my fake self.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but I will try to keep my integrity and my respect for the designers and for my readers.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz If I'm in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know what's possible, or I may not have the creativity, but if I can identify a problem, that's a valuable thing.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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