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  • B. Washington Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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  • William Hazlitt Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Susan Sontag Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Ann Bancroft Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Beau Willimon Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations, and you're able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bud Grant First of all the name, and the color purple, I think those two things distinguish the Vikings as much as anything. You go anywhere in the country and say 'Vikings,' they know exactly where you are. You say 'Cardinals,' well, Cardinals who? There are a dozen Cardinals teams in the country in professional and amateur sports.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse Flowers are happy things.
    Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
    English author and humorists (1881 - 1975)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Bert Lance Folks are serious about three things: Their religion, their family and, most of all, their money.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Elizabeth Taylor Follow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come.
    Elizabeth Taylor
    British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian (1932 - 2011)
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  • Thomas Carlyle For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Cai Guo-Qiang For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
    Cai Guo-Qiang
    Chinese artist (1957 - )
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  • Bobby Flay For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Brit Morin For my grandmother's generation, the big invention was cake mix; for our moms, it was the microwave, and for me, it's the iPhone. And that's enabled us to do so many different things more efficiently at home.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson For policemen to be honest about the fact that they may be fearful when they come into a certain situation, not understanding what's going to happen. The only way things will change and things will get better is if people are able to be honest without feeling like they're going to be offended, or they're going to offend someone else.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Bobby Bonilla For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.
    Bobby Bonilla
    American Major League Baseball player (1963 - )
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  • Arthur Schwartz For the most part this is a place to find down-to-earth advice on everyday cooking, eating, food shopping, cooking equipment, and nice things to put on your table.
    Arthur Schwartz
    American composer and film producer (1900 - 1984)
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  • Armistead Maupin For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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