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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'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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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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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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We live in a very insecure world with a very insecure communications platform.
John McAfee
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I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'
Carmen Busquets
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Room service is nice. Ooh-la-la, a hotel. At home, it's laundry and school lunches.
Dolores O'Riordan
The Cranberries
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And yet, strange to say, now that this truth is recognized by most cultivated people — now that the beneficent working of the survival of the fittest has been so impressed on them that, much more than people in past times, they might be expected to hesitate before neutralizing its action — now more than ever before in the history of the world, are they doing all they can to further survival of the unfittest!
Herbert Spencer
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The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong.
Lao Tzu
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I rather like getting away from fiction.
Penelope Lively