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  • Charles F. Kettering People are very open-minded about new things. As long as they are exactly like the old ones.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Brett Ratner People can criticise all day long, I think I've proven myself, I think I deliver. And I agree, box office does not mean a movie's good, but I feel like I'm making good movies and I'm delivering in box office.
    Brett Ratner
    American director and producer (1969 - )
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  • Katharine Whitehorn People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
    Katharine Whitehorn
    British journalist, writer, and columnist (1928 - 2021)
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  • Burning Spear People have been listening to Burning Spear for a long time now, and they know who I am and what I stand for. Yes, I do address many of the same ideas from album to album, adding only a little different flavor or coloring. Yes, the message has remained virtually the same because the issues haven't gone away yet.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Francis Bacon People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Barry Humphries People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Clark Kenneth People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
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  • Bruce Forsyth People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I'm much more relaxed than that.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Ogden Nash People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Carlos Ghosn People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • John Banville Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.
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    John Banville
    Irish writer (1945 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Aaron Siskind Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
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  • Eugene Wigner Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve
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  • Carlo Collodi Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.
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    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Billy Collins Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Bev Perdue President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.
    Bev Perdue
    American businesswoman and politician (1947 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez President Reagan, Jack Kemp and other advocates of supply-side economics understood that pro-growth tax, spending and economic policies were essential to America's long-term economic and fiscal health.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Bethany McLean Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Ogden Nash Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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