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Philip Roth quote: "You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force..."

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

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Most people, of course, spend their lives caring about the wrong things. The worry about South Africa or Nicaragua. They spend so much time finding themselves that they lose their taxicabs. They don't see that what kind of napkin you get at a delicatessen is a matter of much significance in the world today. That's why they don't get linen Kinky Friedman
Gerard Way quote: "Are you on our side...and want to be different, or are you on..."
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Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. Al Gore
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It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today. Lawrence Summers
Kelly Jones quote: "The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all..."
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When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they will break and tatter under the touch. You must let them ooze and crawl of their own will onto a knife blade and lift them gently into your bottle of sea water. And perhaps that might be the way to write this book-to open the page and let the stories crawl in by themselves. John Steinbeck
Stanley Baldwin quote: "I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim..."
I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it. Stanley Baldwin
I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid. Kevin Spacey
Robert Baden-Powell quote: "When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good..."
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I couldn't imagine not having clean water. Chris Tucker
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If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other. Robert Penn Warren
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position. Leo Buscaglia
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We're plastic, but we still have fun Lady Gaga
When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing. When I moved to New York, I started to realize that I wanted people to see the stuff that I was doing, and I wanted it to mean something to them. Joseph Gordon-Levitt