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  • Arthur Golden What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Bill Rancic What I think a lot of great marathon runners do is envision crossing that finish line. Visualization is critical. But for me, I set a lot of little goals along the way to get my mind off that overwhelming goal of 26.2 miles. I know I've got to get to 5, and 12, and 16, and then I celebrate those little victories along the way.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Carrie Fisher What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Arthur Laffer What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Woody Allen What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Salvador Dali What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdad's of his dreams to rise from the dust.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Oliver Cromwell What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Beth Brooke What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change - to be transparent about their goals for change, to align their incentives systems to drive the change, and to make sure their work environments are flexible in a way that allows men and women who choose to work to be able to achieve all of their potential.
    Beth Brooke
    American businesswoman and athelete (1959 - )
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  • Samuel Butler What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, ''I bet that my Redeemer liveth.''
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Leszczynski Stanislaus What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • James Madison What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
    James Madison
    American statesman, President (1751 - 1836)
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  • Barbara Coloroso What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.
    Barbara Coloroso
    American author
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  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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  • Chief Seattle What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Brad Sherman What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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