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  • Anna Pavlova When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
    Anna Pavlova
    Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the (1881 - 1931)
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • W. Temple When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a forward child, that must be play'd with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
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  • Sir William Temple When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Anton Chekhov When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Samuel Johnson When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Oscar Wilde When Christ says, ‘Forgive your enemies,’ it is not for the sake of the enemy, but for one’s own sake that he says so, and because love is more beautiful than hate.
    Source: The Profundis
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Dale Carnegie When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • George Eliot When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Alan Alda When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Bill Griffith When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Billy Graham When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • François Truffaut When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
    François Truffaut
    French filmmaker (1932 - 1984)
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  • Blake Mycoskie When I accept an invitation for a public speaking engagement, my purpose is to share the TOMS story and our giving mission. In no way do I believe this means I endorse every single aspect of that organization. That may be naive, and you may disagree, but it is my sincere belief.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Hillaire Belloc When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.
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  • Hilaire Belloc When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ''His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.''
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bob Harper When I came out, when I was 17 years old, it was one of those things where I realized that there was going to be so many obstacles, but being gay doesn't mean being weak.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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