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  • Bruno Dumont Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Arthur Golden Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Bill Flores House Speaker Paul Ryan has actually started using a phrase lately - 'Raise our gaze.' He's exactly right, too. That's what I'd like to see in a presidential candidate. I don't like the bricks being thrown back and forth. That's not inspiring to me and to most of our electorate, I think.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Fawn M. Brodie Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
    Fawn M. Brodie
    American historian and biographer (1915 - 1981)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Bill Hybels How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • James Thurber Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Winston Churchill I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • John F. Kennedy I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Alexander the Great I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Alexander the Great I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Abigail Adams I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Booker T. Washington I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Lord George Byron I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence - this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Audre Lorde I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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