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  • Bob Seger Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Aristotle Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Eugène Ionesco Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Brett Hull Because I don't look like I'm skating around as hard as Bobby Bassen doesn't mean my mind isn't working twice as hard as Bobby's mind. Just because I can't fight like Kelly Chase doesn't mean standing in front of the net getting cross-checked and slashed isn't toughness as well.
    Brett Hull
    Canadian-born American former ice hockey player (1964 - )
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  • Angela Davis Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our­ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • B. D. Wong Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Brandon Lee Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.
    Brandon Lee
    American actor (1965 - 1993)
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  • Ben Chaplin Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler.
    Ben Chaplin
    English actor, director and writer (1969 - )
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  • Junot Diaz Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Alain de Botton Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well; and requires no less practice.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Alice Koller Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
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  • Carl Hubbell Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.
    Carl Hubbell
    American baseball player (1903 - )
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  • George Eliot Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as ''nymphets.''
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Johnson Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Paterson Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
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  • Bill Dedman Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bobby Flay Brushes are crucial for applying glazes, sauces, and oils. The pastry brushes that you find in homestores can be pricey so pay a visit to your local hardware store and pick up a few paint brushes which are less expensive and work equally as well.
    Bobby Flays Grill It
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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