I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. ~Oscar Wilde
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I am usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl. ~Hope Davis
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I am horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad. ~Sam Trammell
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Let me tell you something. For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback. ~Michelle Obama
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. ~William Beveridge
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience. ~Alice Eve
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Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. ~Aaron Burr
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Eating people is wrong. ~Michael Flanders
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
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There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. ~Sylvia Plath
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. ~Dave Barry
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Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead. ~Harry Enfield
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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I am still me even after all that has happened. ~Victoria Beckham
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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. ~Robert Harris
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Our content carries the Forbes name, and our whole mantra is to put authoritative journalism at the center of the social media experience. ~Michael Perlis
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You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck; and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee; or you can go out and become an entrepreneur. ~Al Michaels
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