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  • Bobby Keys When you're not on the payroll, and you want to continue the Beverly Wilshire lifestyle, but you're only geared for a Holiday Inn existence, things are gonna catch up to you.
    Bobby Keys
    American saxophonist (1943 - 2014)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth's only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Atom Egoyan When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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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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  • Henry Miller Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Margaret Halsey Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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  • Thomas Jefferson Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Carl Honore Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Busta Rhymes Whether it's working on five or 10 different things at the same time, I've got to stay in people's faces.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Burton Richter While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Burton Richter While a lab director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community. I learned this early in my career while I was leading the construction of the SPEAR facility.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Bruce Hornsby While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.
    Bruce Hornsby
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1954 - )
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  • Benigno Aquino III While I accept that there are certain things about my private life that will always be of interest to the public, it would be better if you give the same amount of attention to issues that matter as well.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • St. Francis de Sales While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
    St. Francis de Sales
    Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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  • Ann Beattie While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Bill Condon While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Billy Gibbons White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Martin Luther Who has skill in the art of music is of good temperament and fitted for all things.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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