Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • Donna Tartt Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
    Donna Tartt
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Benny Blanco Sometimes you're gonna write a song and it's not gonna be right from the beginning. And you're just gonna have to work through that wall. But if you know something is there, you've gotta just keep doing it until you get it right. So, I'll work on a song for three months if I have to, to get it right.
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Stevie Wonder Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.
    Stevie Wonder
    American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer (1950 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bjork Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I lose energy and I can't do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I'm not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it's necessary.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bhante Henepola Gunaratana Somewhere in this process, you will come face to face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking, gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill, utterly out of control and helpless. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed.... So don't let this realization unsettle you. It is a milestone actually, a sign of real progress.
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  • Augustus William Hare Song is the tone of feeling. If song, however, be the tone of feeling, what is beautiful singing? The balance of feeling, not the absence of it.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Bruce Lee Soon my fists began to swell from hitting his hard head. Right then I realized Wing Chun was not too practical and began to alter my way of fighting.
    Bruce Lee in Black Belt magazine (October 1976)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Margaret Mead Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Alexander Haig Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • Anthony Weiner Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Basil Bunting Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Lord George Byron Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Barry Eichengreen Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow.
    Barry Eichengreen
    American economist
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Arthur Erickson Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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