Diogenes Quotes
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.
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I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these records, only using the instruments I had at hand - an acoustic guitar, and that's all. It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.
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It's always great when you're really needed.
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I was playing with pencils while the other girls were playing with dolls.
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If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet.
