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  • Alanis Morissette As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Andy Goldsworthy As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
    Andy Goldsworthy
    British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist (1956 - )
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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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  • Barry Manilow Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Bill Gross Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Bootsy Collins But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Bootsy Collins But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Abbey Lincoln But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.
    Abbey Lincoln
    American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress (1930 - 2010)
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  • Judith Viorst But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.
    Judith Viorst
    American writer and journalist (1931 - )
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  • Bob Balaban But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.
    Bob Balaban
    American actor, author and producer (1945 - )
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Billy Boyd But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.
    Billy Boyd
    Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
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  • Robert Cialdini By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.
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  • Mark Twain By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Arthur Miller Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Charles A. Garfield Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it.
    Charles A. Garfield
    American psychologist and author (1944 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man -his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. What would have happened if Paul had allowed himself to be talked out of his journey to Damascus?
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Eileen Caddy Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Bill Shuster Central and western Pennsylvania has one of the best workforces in the country and this will provide job training, new skills and additional resources for those trying to find a job.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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