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  • Bobby Darin Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Thomas Gray Any fool may write a most valuable book by change, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.
    Sketch of his own character
    Thomas Gray
    British poet (1716 - 1771)
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  • Henry Miller Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Hedy Lamarr Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
    The Stars (1962) door Richard Schickel
    Hedy Lamarr
    Austrian-American actress and inventor (1914 - 2000)
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  • Bob Costas Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.
    Bob Costas
    American sportscaster (1952 - )
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  • Brad Falchuk Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.
    Brad Falchuk
    American television writer, director, and producer (1971 - )
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  • Ben Nicholson Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Susan Sontag Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Alan Greenspan Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Any investment bought via credit always runs the risk of margin calls and, eventually, liquidation.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Nelson Mandela Any language can be the vehicle of racist insults and repression, but it can also be the carrier of the message of hope and liberation.
    The Star, 19 september 1991
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Carol Bartz Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.
    Carol Bartz
    American business executive (1948 - )
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  • Bill Cosby Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Raymond Chandler Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other men, to do good to them or simply give them something to do, is unhappy, disconsolate, and accursed.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Andrew Jackson Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Agnes Martin Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
    Agnes Martin
    Canadian-born American abstract painter (1912 - 2004)
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  • Adolfo Aguilar Zinser Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.
    Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
     
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