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  • Campbell Brown People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Brihadaranyaka Upanishad People see his pleasure-ground; him no one sees at all.
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Bob Balaban People so far have been very fond of the Robert Altman movie, as I am, and when one things goes well it shines light on your other projects and now I seem to have a number of projects that are moving forward.
    Bob Balaban
    American actor, author and producer (1945 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Henry James People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Billy Collins People think of poetry as a school subject... Poetry is very frustrating to students because they don't have a taste for ambiguity, for one thing. That gives them a poetry hangover.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Ann Landers People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Vaclav Havel People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Leo Burke People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
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  • Barry Schwartz People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Marcel Proust People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Barry Marshall Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Dan Rather Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
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  • George Eliot Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Aldous Huxley Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Gene Fowler Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
    Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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