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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On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. The role that hallway chat plays in driving new ideas has become a cliche of business writing, but that doesn't make it less true.
James Surowiecki
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Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.
Patrick Ness
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He is thoughtful whose mind is directed by his will, whose mind fulfills his intentions, whose mind is under the control of his intention... It is not till a person has gained mastery over his mind, till he is above this activity, that he is a ruling power, a true person.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.
Richard Linklater
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Did you ever have the measels, and if so, how many?
Charles Farrar Browne
