Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • Beck The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Burn Gorman The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight! The terrible twos are not a myth, but he's such a laugh to be around.
    Burn Gorman
    British actor and musician (1974 - )
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  • Barney Frank The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Antonia Fraser The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Baba Kalyani The commodity price easing really does not play too much role in our margins because our basic raw material - steel - is not really a commodities engineering steel.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Algernon Sydney The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Wayne Dyer The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Arthur J. Goldberg The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.
    Arthur J. Goldberg
    American jurist and politician
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  • Virginia Woolf The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Joseph Conrad The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Barry Eichengreen The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
    Barry Eichengreen
    American economist
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • William O. Douglas The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
    William O. Douglas
    American jurist and politician (1898 - 1980)
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  • W. H. Auden The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Nadine Gordimer The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Antonin Scalia The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.
    Antonin Scalia
    American jurist (1936 - 2016)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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