Quotes with me—don’t

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• Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.

  Alex Trebek
  Canadian-American television personality and actor (1940 - )
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• Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.

  Carl Paladino
  American businessman (1946 - )
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• Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

  Josh Billings
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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• Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

  Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

  Andy Warhol
  American artist (1928 - 1987)
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• Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

  James Agate
  English diarist and theatre critic (1877 - 1947)
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• Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long. Wait until you meet him at night.

  Robert C. Edwards
  American author (1927 - 2013)
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• Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

  Sir Hugh Walpole
  British writer
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• Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

  Miles Davis
  American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926 - 1991)
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• Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.

  Alan Cohen
  American businessman (1954 - )
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• Don't promise when you're happy, don't reply when you're angry, and don't decide when you're sad.

  Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  American banker (1960 - )
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• Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.

  Lighthousekeeping (2006) 116

  Jeanette Winterson
  English writer (1959 - )
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• Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it.

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  American writer
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• Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

  Andy Rooney
  American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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• Don't serve time, make time serve you

  William Sutton
   
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• Don't set your wit against a child.

  Jonathan Swift
  English writer (1667 - 1745)
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• Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

  The Art of Worldly Wisdom

  Baltasar Gracian
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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• Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  American minister (1878 - 1969)
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• Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

  Leo Buscaglia
  American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• overestimate
• expectations
• confidence
• surprising
• different
• attention

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