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  • Mark Twain It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bruce Nordstrom It is important for us to understand where we came from and how we got here because it would be very foolish of us to get off that horse we rode in on.
    Bruce Nordstrom
    American businessman (1933 - )
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  • Woody Allen It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Anne W. Schaef It is in the interests of our society to promote those things that take the edge off, keep us busy with our fixes, and keep us slightly numbed out and zombie like. In this way our modern consumer society itself functions as an addict.
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  • Arthur Miller It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Henry Miller It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • William Shakespeare It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Louis de Bernieres It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard It seems that you live in someone else's dream
    In a hand-me-down wedding dress
    With the things that could have been are repressed
    But you said your vows and you closed the door
    On so many men who would have loved you more
    Narrow Stairs
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Cal Hubbard It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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  • Bill Bryson It was impossible to determine what he was saying, but I imagined he was telling all those present that they were nongs and maggots. I decided I quite liked watching the news with the sound off.
    In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Bill Paxton It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Carol Lynley It was strange being an adolescent fantasy for other people. I was so cut off from the real world. I went straight into the movies as a teenybopper, and had a very protracted adolescence myself. I was divorced when I was 20, but I was an adolescent until I was 26. Then I was in Europe, living with this fellow and he kind of helped me out. Told me some things about myself.
    Interview by Roger Ebert, December 4, 1972
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  • Barbara Kingsolver It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Busta Rhymes It's been three years since I last performed here so I'm dying to tear the roof off Wembley Arena with some old school joints and brand new bangers. When I'm done, you're gonna remember it for a long time to come.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Bill Flores It's better to negotiate behind closed doors than it is to be out throwing rocks at one another in the public square.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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