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  • William Shakespeare And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Billy Gardell And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your act. Whatever is happening in your life is what's going on on stage. So if you're angry in your life, then that's going to be on stage. If you're looking for the guy that's just going to make you laugh for an hour and forget about, that's me.
    Billy Gardell
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1969 - )
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  • Brandi Chastain And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Bertolt Brecht And when she was finished they laid her in earth
    Flowers growing, butterflies juggling over her...
    She, so light, barely pressed the earth down
    How much pain it took to make her as light as that!
    Source: Poems, 1913-1956 To my mother [Meiner Mutter] (May 1920), trans. Jo
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bernard Cornwell And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Robert E. Ornstein And, most important, we have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.
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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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  • Bobby Jindal Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Willie Shoemaker Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.
    Willie Shoemaker
    American jockey (1931 - 2003)
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  • Blake Mycoskie Anyone can make a difference, so you don't have to have it be some huge, global campaign... you can start small, and that's just as important.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • William Somerset Maugham Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Barry Levinson Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • Lee Iacocca Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Adolf Loos Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Isadora Duncan Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love -to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Ben Elliot Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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