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  • Betty Buckley For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Amy Hempel For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.
    Rick Moody (2007) 202
    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • Laura Swenson For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.
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  • Carmen Electra For some reason I only crave fruit when I'm in a tropical place - if it's really hot in the summer or if I go to a tropical island for work. But otherwise I really don't crave it.
    Carmen Electra
    American actress, model and singer (1972 - )
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  • Carmen Electra For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.
    Carmen Electra
    American actress, model and singer (1972 - )
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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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  • Thomas Carlyle For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Carl Sagan For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves. This is a time of great danger, but our species is young, and curious, and brave. It shows much promise.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 05 min 20 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bipasha Basu For the longest time, Indian women have been okay with being curvy. But I think the modern Indian woman needs to get toned. I don't endorse being thin. Anorexia and bulimia are a reality in India because everybody wants to be thin.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • George Robert Gissing For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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  • Bergen Evans For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.
    Bergen Evans
    American professor and television host
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  • Abraham Cowley For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Francis Bacon For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Audre Lorde For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 43
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Susan Sontag For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions - largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Lawrence Durrell For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential, the imagination.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • William Shakespeare For we which now behold these present days have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Jane Austen For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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