Quotes with make-shift

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  • Barrett Foa Cyndi Lauper is really good at talking to you about normal things. It's strange to be in the presence of a big celebrity like that. You want to make these connections and say things related to being a fan. It's not as interesting for them. She's amazing at making small talk without it seeming small.
    Barrett Foa
    American bari-tenor singer, dancer, and actor (1977 - )
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  • Marcus Aurelius Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Paul Theroux Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
    Paul Theroux
    American travel writer and novelist (1941 - )
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  • Woody Allen Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bjork Declare independence
    Don't let them do that to you
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    Start your own currency
    Make your own stamp
    Protect your language
    Source: Songs Declare Independence, from Volta (2007)
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Alice Walker Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Og Mandino Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Cass Sunstein Democrats want to use government power to make people's lives go better; Republicans respond that people know more than politicians do. We think that both might be able to agree that nudging can maintain free markets, and liberty, while also inclining people in good directions.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Marcia Wieder Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen.
    Marcia Wieder
    CEO and Founder of Dream University
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  • Aristotle Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Aaron Eckhart Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
    Aaron Eckhart
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Disillusioned words like bullets bark
    As human gods aim for their marks.
    Make everything from toy guns that spark
    To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark.
    It's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred.
    Source: Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Betty Wright Divorce can be tough when the woman is the breadwinner. But the Lord can make the dark light.
    Betty Wright
    American singer (1953 - 2020)
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  • W. M. Thackeray Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Archibald Alexander Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Sir John Lubbock Do not look on your work as a dull duty. If you choose you can make it interesting. Throw your heart into it.
    Source: The Use of Life
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • François Fénelon Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Anna C. Brackett Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.
    Anna C. Brackett
    American philosopher and feminist
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  • Ahmed Chalabi Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.
    Ahmed Chalabi
    Iraqi politician (1944 - 2015)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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