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  • Alanis Morissette At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Buddy Hackett At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Adam Schiff At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Biz Stone Balancing family and work is a top priority for me, and I treat it as such. Meaning, I actually put specific family time and events in my calendar so that precious time is dedicated and properly blocked off from any work that may try to sneak its way into my schedule.
    Biz Stone
    American entrepreneur (1974 - )
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  • Bernadette Devlin Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.
    Bernadette Devlin
    Irish civil rights activist (1947 - )
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  • Casey Kasem Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.
    Casey Kasem
     
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  • Hilaire Belloc Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfuls.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Wilson Mizner Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Jimmy Durante Be nice to people on your way up, because you're going to meet them all on your way down.
    Jimmy Durante
    American singer, pianist, comedian and actor (1893 - 1980)
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  • Bonnie Hunt Because I've been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I've learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Assata Shakur Being in Cuba has allowed me to live in a society that is not at war with itself. There is a sense of community. It's a given in Cuba that, if you fall down, the person next to you is going to help you get up.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Blame it on the lies that killed us
    Blame it on the truth that ran us down
    You can blame it all on me, Terry
    It don't matter to me now.
    Source: Born To Run (1975) Backstreets
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Joseph Addison Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Born down in a dead man's town;
    The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
    You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
    'Til you spend half your life just covering up.
    Source: Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Born in the USA
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Billy Porter Broadway! Broad-way! I don't aspire to the middle. I aspire to the tip-tip-top of it all.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Alan Watts Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Beilby Porteus But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Bryan Ferry But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Buck Owens But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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