There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. ~James Gleick
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and magazines, and with the new technology you can watch entire movies accompanied by audio commentary from the director. You can learn more from John Sturges' audio track on the "Bad Day at Black Rock" laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school. Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it. ~Paul Thomas Anderson
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes. ~Joan Collins
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ~Max Beerbohm
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"Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts." ~John Green
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same. ~Malcolm Forbes
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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He who cannot howl will not find his pack. ~Charles Simic
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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Remember the street car cannot turn out. ~Charles Melville Hays
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree. ~J. P. Morgan
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. ~Mitch Kapor
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I'm a much better mother at 46, than if I were like, 21 or 25. ~Halle Berry
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it is better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
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