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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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Every knock is a boost. ~Elbert Hubbard
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours. ~Brendan Fraser
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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I had been up all night inventing the Camcorder. ~Al Gore
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. ~Bill Murray
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I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York. ~Roy Ayers
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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. ~Germaine Greer
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and say, "I've made mistakes, I'm off course, I need to change." Which is probably the hardest thing for a human being to do, and maybe that's why it interests me so. ~Joss Whedon
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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I realized that even in a world of proliferating media venues, online and in print, and on TV and on countless cable channels, the idea that I could be considered an expert on chronic knee pain was I think troubling for society, but very exciting for me. ~John Hodgman
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