Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Ace Frehley That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Barry McGuire That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Don DeLillo That's why people take vacations. Not to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
    Source: White Noise (2011) 276
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The ''kingdom of Heaven'' is a condition of the heart -not something that comes ''upon the earth'' or ''after death.''
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Abbie Hoffman The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Carol Loomis The 'Fortune' I came to work for on Jan. 25, 1954, was a monthly, with pages significantly larger than what you're reading; 'art' covers that did not relate to stories inside; and a newsstand price of $1.25.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Carol Loomis The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of them with strong reservations about the whole concept. For the first time in their relatively short history, the funds are not growing: in fact, some have suffered large withdrawals of capital, and a few have actually folded.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Bing Gordon The 1980s was a time of the great recession of interactive entertainment. When Atari fell in 1982, until Nintendo launched its console, video games were an outcast for five years.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Barry Eichengreen The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
    Barry Eichengreen
    American economist
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  • Barry Eichengreen The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
    Barry Eichengreen
    American economist
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  • Bobby Bonilla The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.
    Bobby Bonilla
    American Major League Baseball player (1963 - )
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  • Stephen R. Covey The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Carl Sagan The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
    Source: Cosmos
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bell Hooks The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Salman Rushdie The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Seneca The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • H. Ross Perot The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • J. G. Ballard The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Ben Harper The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Pierre Charron The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
    Pierre Charron
    French philosopher (1541 - 1603)
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