America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Good morning. Love is the most beautiful truth of life. Never ignore the person who loves you.
#message #cute

All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape. ~Angus Wilson
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~Spanish Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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Death is just life's next big adventure. ~J. K. Rowling
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ~Imelda Marcos
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Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise. ~Simon Cowell
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Life is tough, but it is tougher when you are stupid. ~John Wayne
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Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ~John Wayne
#quotes #john-wayne #ignorance #hardship #humor

Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. ~Jacqueline Novogratz
#quotes #jacqueline-novogratz #time #life #earth

I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people. ~Morton Gould
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptional mature. ~Janet Evanovich
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One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb
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Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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