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Forever in debt to your priceless advice. Kurt Cobain
I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled. Paul M. Glaser
He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer. Benny Green
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I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world. Gennaro Angiulo
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Sometimes you have to let people down in order to get on, particularly in showbusiness. Dusty Springfield
No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative... I doubt if any Victorian novelist has as much to teach the modern novelists as George Eliot. V. S. Pritchett
[American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant. Zbigniew Brzezinski
They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer. Terry Prachett
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The Hudson's Bay Company has always been the guardian angel of the north. Ernest Thompson Seton
That which a man continually thinks about determines his actions in times of opportunity and stress. I will know what you are if you tell me what you think about when you don't have to think. David O. McKay
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There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood. Dorothy L. Sayers
If someone wants to give you, like, $100 million, it's hard to say no. But I don't want to accept that kind of money right now. I'd feel burdened by it. Michelle Wie
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You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Taylor Swift quote: "I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want..."
I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future. Taylor Swift
People enter politics or the Civil Service out of a desire to exert power and influence events; this, I maintain, is an illness. It's only when one realises that great administrators and leaders of men have all been at any rate slightly mad that one has a true understanding of history. Auberon Waugh