Penelope Lively Quotes
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.
Nancy Pelosi
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'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.
E. Joseph Cossman
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.
Taya Kyle
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
W. Edwards Deming
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
Zach Galifianakis
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It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.
Adam Brody
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As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
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I'm never going to do something that I don't want to do, because I've been given the opportunity to not have to do that.
Maisie Williams
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The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.
Dan Hill
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There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.
Octavio Paz
