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  • Henry David Thoreau Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bobby Flay Everybody says, 'I have problems overcooking steak on the grill,' but just take it off earlier! Grilling is really common sense. It's very simple. You should think of a grill as a burner - it just happens to have grates. You shouldn't be intimidated by it.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • David Cronenberg Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.
    David Cronenberg
    Canadian movie maker (1943 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Al Jourgensen Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.
    Al Jourgensen
    Cuban-American singer-songwriter, musician (1958 - )
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  • Paul Klee Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Donald Trump Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Shana Alexander Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.
    Shana Alexander
    American journalist (1925 - 2005)
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  • Bill Medley First off, you can't replace Bobby Hatfield. I was just blessed to be able to sing with maybe the greatest singer in the world as a first tenor.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Ray Bradbury First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Rohinton Mistry Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.
    Rohinton Mistry
    Indian-born Canadian writer (1952 - )
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  • Blythe Danner For a woman who's a widow and pretty much a loner, I can walk out, and I'm surrounded by NYU kids. The energy jumps off the sidewalks, and I never feel sad or bored.
    Blythe Danner
    American actress (1943 - )
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  • Johnny Carson For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
    Johnny Carson
    American TV personality, businessman (1925 - 2005)
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  • Carl Hagelin For guys who are into fitness, I think it's important to wear slim-fit stuff that is pretty tight so they can show off the bodies they have been working hard to have. Women are going to appreciate that.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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  • Anthony Doerr For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Barbara Mandrell For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Camille Paglia Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling. Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • St. Francis de Sales Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
    St. Francis de Sales
    Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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