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Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money.: Robin Williams (1951 - )
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.: Pancho Villa (1877 - 1923), last words
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.: Belgian Proverb
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One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started.: Emil Zatopek
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.: Margaret Fairless Barber
Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.: Sam Donaldson (1934 - )
Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.: L. L. Henderson
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Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.: Charlize Theron, acceptance speech at Golden Globe Awards, 2004
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.: Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.: Chuck Norris (1940 - )
'Where and how can I make this meal better for me?' I asked myself that question before every meal—especially in the beginning.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.: Japanese Proverb
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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Men who never get carried away should be.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Shards of Honor", 1986
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Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.: Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
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