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"I had a veritable mania for finishing whatever I began, which often got me into difficulties. On one occasion I started to read the works of Voltaire when I learned, to my dismay, that there were close on one hundred large volumes in small print which that monster had written while drinking seventy-two cups of black coffee per diem. It had to be done, but when I laid aside the last book I was very glad, and said, 'Never more!'"
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"Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging."
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| "Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light." | ![]() |
"After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down."
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"I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity."
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"Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business."
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| "In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways." |
"If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed."
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| "I'd give Charles Darwin videotapes of 'Geraldo,' 'Beavis and Butt-head' and 'The McLaughlin Group.' I would be interested in seeing if he still believes in evolution." | ![]() |
"Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser."
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"If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s."
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"F*** yeah, man! I'm a rock star girl!"
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"We weren't afraid of success, we were afraid of being punished for it."
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| Born 07/08 | Born 07/09 | Born 07/10 | Birth Dates | |
| Died 07/08 | Died 07/09 | Died 07/10 | Death Dates |