Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Aldous Huxley I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bruce Forsyth I can tell by the way somebody walks if they can dance or not. Just by the rhythm.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Toni Morrison I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Armistead Maupin I can't imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you've made a strong impact on the lives of other people. Just because I've heard it before does not mean I don't want to hear it one more time.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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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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  • Billie Holiday I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Philip Roth I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Lillian Hellman I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
    Lillian Hellman
    American playwright (1905 - 1984)
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  • Martin Luther I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • Henry Ford I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • John Milton I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • William Shakespeare I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Arthur Cohn I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.
    Arthur Cohn
    American film producer (1927 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • William Shakespeare I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Buzz Osborne I conquered my stage fright a long time ago. In my line of work, it's kind of a pre-requisite that you not feel bad about looking stupid in front of a lot of people.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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