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James Goldsmith quote: "If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys."

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

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In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on. Orson Scott Card
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. Toni Morrison
The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get up. No sound but the wind in the trees. He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings. Cormac McCarthy
William F. Buckley, Jr. quote: "I had much more fun criticizing than praising."
I had much more fun criticizing than praising. William F. Buckley, Jr.
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The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away. Roberto Unger
Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles."May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply. J. R. R. Tolkien
I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard. Viola Davis
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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. Molly Ivins
Jean de la Bruyere quote: "As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the..."
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. Jean de la Bruyere
The temple of Ceres should be in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led but for the purpose of sacrificing to her. Marcus V. Pollio
Margaret Atwood quote: "The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner."
The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner. Margaret Atwood
I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity. Henry Rollins
Namie Amuro quote: "I stopped caring what people thought."
I stopped caring what people thought. Namie Amuro
You ask your readers if they can account for every minute of their lives, every thought in their heads, and be proud of it. You ask them if they've never jaywalked.... never gone thirty-one miles per hour in a thirty-mile zone... if they've never sped up when they saw that yellow light. And when you find that single, sorry person who hasn't taken a misstep, that one person with the right to judge me, you tell him he's just as human as I am. That tomorrow, his world could turn upside down and... Jodi Picoult