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  • Brit Hume When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Bel Powley When you're portraying someone that really existed, there has to be a time as an actress where you leave reality and move into the fantasy world so you can do your job of creating a character.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Michael Ondaatje When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Tim O'Brien When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.
    Source: De last die ze droegen (1990) 183
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Mark Twain When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Washington Irving Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Lord George Byron Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Carolyn See Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible pianist; Lee Konitz, the luminous alto sax player; and Warne Marsh, the tenor player who captured some of the most beautiful sounds in the world.
    Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • T. S. Eliot Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Madame Neckar Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.
    Madame Neckar
     
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  • Albert Einstein Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Edna St. Vincent Millay Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
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  • Aldous Huxley Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ralph B. Perry Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.
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  • Bram Stoker Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bill Richardson Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, our nation is stronger when we are respected throughout the world.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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