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  • Ian McEwan The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Bertie Carvel The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices made are informed.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • David Ogilvy The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bayard Taylor The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • David Brinkley The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
    David Brinkley
    American newsreader (1920 - 2003)
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  • James Russell Lowell The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Ayn Rand The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Niels Bohr The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Billy Ray Cyrus The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
    Billy Ray Cyrus
    American singer-songwriter and actor (1961 - )
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  • Robert Herrick The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
    Robert Herrick
    English lyric poet and cleric (1591 - 1674)
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  • Lord George Byron The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Francis Bacon The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Cate Blanchett The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Bryan Cogman The pressure used to wear on me. I was on Twitter a couple years ago, and I couldn't handle it all that well. Don't get me wrong, because 90% of the feedback you get is fantastic.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Bill Cunningham The problem is I'm not a good photographer. To be perfectly honest, I'm too shy. Not aggressive enough. Well, I'm not aggressive at all. I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That's all there is to it.
    Bill Cunningham
    American fashion photographer
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  • Bayard Taylor The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom. When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • William Gilmore Simms The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.
    William Gilmore Simms
    American poet, novelist and historian (1806 - 1870)
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  • Elaine Dundy The question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don’t we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
    The Dud Avocado (1958) I, 8
    Elaine Dundy
    American writer, actress and journalist (1921 - 2008)
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