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  • Bob Newhart It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Brande Roderick It's important not to lose sight of the fact people of all sorts are still putting themselves at risk. It happens to straight and gay, single and married. I have never been comfortable thinking of AIDS as something that 'other people' get.
    Brande Roderick
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Adam Grant It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile life is and that there are so many things to still be thankful for.
    Adam Grant
    American author and professor (1981 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Bono It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bill Bailey It's not a beard, it's an animal I've trained to sit very still.
    Bewilderness: New York (audio CD, 2002)
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Anne Frank It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Benedict Wong It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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  • Billie Jean King It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Sean O'Casey Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Lawrence Durrell Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will - whatever we may think.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Amy Hempel Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.
    Rick Moody (2007) 8
    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • Frederick W. Faber Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
    Frederick W. Faber
    English hymn writer and theologian (1814 - 1863)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Smiles Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Mary McCarthy Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a ''work'' of man.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bret Harte Later, when we were forced to accept the fact that finding gold was really the primary object of a gold-mining company, we still remained there
    Captain Jims Friend.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Vince Lombardi Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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