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  • Carre Otis Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.
    Carre Otis
    American model and actress (1968 - )
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  • Carrie Fisher Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Augustus William Hare Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep together some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, insulated peaks. So is it with great men.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Boyle Roche Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Oliver Cromwell Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • C. S. Lewis Mr. Sensible learned only catchwords from them. He could talk like Epicurus of spare diet, but he was a glutton. He had from Montaigne the language of friendship, but no friend.
    The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 176
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Much of the traditional thinking about cash is well intentioned but unrealistic. Should you have six months of living expenses in the bank for emergencies? Sure. Do you? Probably not.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Marquis de Sade Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Samuel Pepys Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
    Samuel Pepys
    English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament (1633 - 1703)
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  • Josh Billings Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Billy Corgan Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.
    USA Today
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Alban Berg Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
    Alban Berg
    Austrian composer (1885 - 1935)
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  • Bryan Adams Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Bow Wow Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Robert Montgomery My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it.
    Robert Montgomery
    English poet and minister (1807 - 1855)
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  • Thornton Wilder My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate - that's my philosophy.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • William Shakespeare My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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