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  • Bill Griffith What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Barry Commoner What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barry Diller What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Bob Iger What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.
    Bob Iger
    American business executive (1951 - )
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  • Casey Affleck What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
    Source: As quoted in Bridges to Infinity : The Human Side of Mathematics (1983)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Barry Larkin What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The sensationalism has taken over the professionalism.
    Barry Larkin
    American baseball player (1964 - )
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  • Caspar David Friedrich What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of only forty-five degrees. And furthermore, what is in Nature separated by large spaces, is compressed into a cramped space and overfills and over-satiates the eye, creating an unfavorable and disquieting effect on the viewer.
    Caspar David Friedrich
    German landscape painter (1774 - 1840)
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  • Bertolt Brecht What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
    Source: Mother Courage and Her Children The Sergeant, in Scene 1
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • C. S. Lewis What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Barry Manilow What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Barry Diller What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, 'Let's just grab money from, quote, the wealthy'... The issue is the tax code's rotten and we should start truly over with a simple code that is fair and transparent.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Robert Stone What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.
    Robert Stone
     
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  • Bobby Rahal What's really hit me over the years is that you go to every race and see all the well-wishers, and you really feel like you are connected with people after all these years.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Oprah Winfrey Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Bill Engvall When 'Blue Collar TV' was on the 'WB,' we were their second-highest rated show, but they didn't know what to do with us. They had 'Reba,' which was number one, and we were number two, and they didn't want to be known as the hayseed network, so they kind of dropped us, even though we were pulling great numbers.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Russell H. Conwell When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.
    Russell H. Conwell
    American Baptist minister, lawyer, and writer
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  • Bono When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • W. Temple When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a forward child, that must be play'd with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
    W. Temple
     
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