The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ~Ayn Rand
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There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. ~Harvey Fierstein
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I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones. ~David Levithan
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question. ~Bill Keller
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Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It is harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. ~Pink
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A human heart that matched what we think of as heart-shaped; a perfectly formed bright red thing with two halves of equal size; would be one that was horribly diseased. The origin of this stylized representation is somewhat obscure, but it probably appeared at the same time as St. Valentine's Day, about whose history there is much dispute. ~George Fetherling
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It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
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Virtue is its own reward. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, "Who's that?" But this got me started in acting. ~James Stewart
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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Let's do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who've seen me before might know that. ~Bill Hicks
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People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
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Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease. ~Jim Rohn
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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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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity. ~Maya Angelou
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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