Charles Farrar Browne Quotes
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In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.
Lady Gregory
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
Sallust
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
Becky G
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There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.
Forest Whitaker
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
Nathan Myhrvold
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When you're eight or nine years old and you look at the TV set men are landing on the moon - anything is possible. And that is something we need to not lose sight of, is that the inspiration and permission to dream is immense. … It's important to have specific dreams.
Randy Pausch
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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
Oscar Wilde
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I'm not gonna lie, I love the holidays. But Christmas was a lot more fun when you weren't paying for it.
D. L. Hughley
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O Mirth and Innocence! O milk and water! Ye happy mixtures of more happy days.
Lord Byron
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So I go back and forth foreverAll my thoughts they come in pairsOh I will, I won't, I doubt, I don't,I'm not surprised but I never feel quite prepared
Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes
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But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy.
Aldo Leopold
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For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.
Plutarch
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Back in the '60s, there was a car sticker that read, 'Forget Oxfam, Feed Twiggy,' but I ate like a horse.
Lesley Lawson
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I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.
H. L. Mencken
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Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.
Virginia Woolf
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Did you ever have the measels, and if so, how many?
Charles Farrar Browne
