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  • Ben Elton If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Brad Feld If I have a golden touch, I'd also say that I have the opposite of whatever a golden touch is, because I've had a lot of things fail. I think part of the experience of being successful is that you have to have a lot of stuff not work.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Samuel Johnson If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Arthur Ashe If I were to say, ''God, why me?'' about the bad things, then I should have said, ''God, why me?'' about the good things that happened in my life.
    Arthur Ashe
    Robert Ashe Jr (1943 - 1993)
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  • Ben Wheatley If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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  • André Maurois If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Alexander Herzen If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Sylvia Plath If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Doug Larson If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Brad Carson If Republicans want to bring these things up for a vote, I'm letting them know where I stand.
    Brad Carson
    American lawyer and politician (1967 - )
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  • Angela Carter If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • William Blake If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Ben Horowitz If the employees fundamentally trust the C.E.O., then communications will be vastly more efficient than if they don't. Telling things as they are is a critical part of building this trust.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Carl Victor De Bonstetten If the memory is more flexible in childhood, it is more tenacious in mature age; if childhood has sometimes the memory of words, old age has that of things, which impress themselves according to the clearness of the 'conception of the thought which we wish to retain.
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  • Dave Thomas If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
    Dave Thomas
    American businessman and philanthropist (1917 - 1991)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki If there is a camera or someone making a picture or - just do the things you always want to do, because if you start thinking about everything, then you start changing the things you would do. And that's not the life you want to live.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Bernard Williams If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej If they want to write about me in a good way, they should write how I do things that are useful.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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