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  • Alfred Hitchcock Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Carl Lewis Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • John Updike America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Billy Graham America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Carrie P. Meek America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way.
    Carrie P. Meek
    American politician (1926 - )
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  • W. H. Auden Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Donald Sinden An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
    Donald Sinden
     
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  • Cate Blanchett An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Richard Bach An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bill Vaughan An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Bill Vaughan An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
    Source: Business Review, Volume 22
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Sigmund Freud Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Sigmund Freud Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Bob Schieffer And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Al Franken And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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  • Adrian Lyne And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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  • William Shakespeare And if he dies, take him and cut him into little stars and he will make the face of heaven so fine that everyone will fall in love with night.
    Source: Romeo and Juliet 3, 2
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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