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I feel like I've been a Yankee my whole life.

— Johnny Damon

Life

les personnes plaisent ou déplaisent.

— François de La Rochefoucauld

Wisdom

Ten tus pasiones en calma.

— Anonymous

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I don't really want to be compared to Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan, but I really feel honored and really proud that people actually see me as them or similar to them, and because they are my inspiration for what I have become today. I am really honored that people compare me to those people.

— Tony Jaa

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People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

— Soren Kierkegaard

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If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

— Jerome K. Jerome

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Efforts to be permanently useful must be uniformly joyous, a spirit all sunshine, graceful from very gladness, beautiful because bright.

— Thomas Carlyle

Success

People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.

— Afrojack

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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

— Gaston Bachelard

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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

— Samuel Butler

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Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

— Euripides

Success

And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

Wisdom

We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays.

— Edward Hall

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Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.

— William Ralph Inge

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Trust yourselves, my brethren, to the immortal love and perfect work of the Divine Saviour, and by His dear might your days will advance by peaceful stages, whereof each gathers up and carries forward the blessings of all that went before, to a death which shall be a birth.

— Alexander Maclaren

Love

Music is the strongest form of magic.

— Marilyn Manson

Wisdom

George W. Bush is a leader, and that's what we need in the White House. George Bush is someone you can believe and trust.

— Jim Edgar

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If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

— Robin Williams

Life

Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors.

— Shannon Elizabeth

Wisdom

We are fans of Mozart and Beethoven, as well 'South Park' and Borat. We believe that we can attract many people who eschew the serious ambiance of concert halls and don't go to classical music concerts because of such reasons. However, there is a 'serious humor' on the stage: funny and ridiculous. That is important!

— Aleksey Igudesman

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irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Truth

All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.

— Theodore Dalrymple

Happiness

I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.

— Gareth Gates

Wisdom

Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.

— Ralph Marston

Wisdom

douleur: châtiments ou récompenses, paradis ou enfer.

— Gustave Le Bon

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As sure as God ever puts His children into the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.

— C. H. Spurgeon

Wisdom

So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Wisdom

As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.

— Arash Ferdowsi

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The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.

— Erle Stanley Gardner

Success

The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.

— Victor Garber

Wisdom

testimony to his wonderful anticipations of later theories.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Get out of your house and go see some live performance, for God's sake. There are people creating things just outside your window.

— Maria Bamford

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Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African village, you see fractals. And I thought, 'This is fabulous! I wonder why?' And of course I had to go to Africa and ask folks why.

— Ron Eglash

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'Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.

— Seth Gabel

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I do not write, I build.

— Alvar Aalto

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There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination.

— Godfried Danneels

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Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

— Jules Feiffer

Wisdom

Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.

— David Eagleman

Education

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

— Kobe Bryant

Education

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

— Robert Irwin

Wisdom

Right now, I'm very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.

— Johnny Galecki

Wisdom

In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.

— Gayle Gardner

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There's only so many times you can read how ugly you are and how much people hate you.

— Lizzy Caplan

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Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

— Leif Garrett

Wisdom

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

— Suzanne Farrell

Life

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

— Henry Miller

Happiness

Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an impact, and they're a huge influence on the heavy metal community as a whole.

— Kirk Hammett

Wisdom

A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.

— Warren Farrell

Wisdom

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

— Dick Dale

Wisdom

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

— James T. Farrell

Wisdom

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Wisdom

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

— Mary Daly

Success

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

— Edward Felten

Wisdom

unterzubringen in das richtige Behältniß.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Wisdom

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

— Dolly Parton

Wisdom

From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same—majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Wisdom

The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

— Farrah Fawcett

Wisdom

_Afgunst_, _27_, _28_, _328_, _376_, _433_, _476_, _486_.

— François de La Rochefoucauld

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I grab coins and tees in my travels, but I usually mark my ball with a coin from Argentina, either a peso or a 10-centavo piece.

— Angel Cabrera

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I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.

— Geraldine Ferraro

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