Maxim Gorky Quotes
When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
Maxim Gorky
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
Carlos Santana
Santana
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
Obie Trice
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I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'
Pat Summitt
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
Nancy Astor
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I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.
Nancy Reagan
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Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Littlenecks and cherrystones are chewy and sweet on the half shell with mignonette, served raw. But a well-cooked clam is a toothsome, tender thing, full of that magical stuff known as clam liquor.
Kate Christensen
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I do loads of squats with weights. It's great for your bum and legs.
Fleur East
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If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?
Walter Dean Myers
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People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.
Rachel Zoe
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My mom always knew I was going to be an actor because I was a ham from the very beginning, so she would push me toward it, which is really unconventional for Indian families to do.
Aarti Mann
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Hi and Merry Christmas. I’m honored to have a chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide system of mass surveillance watching everything we do. Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information.
Edward Snowden
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We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually.
Beth Gibbons
Portishead
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Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.
Carl Andre
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Sam is a repetitive, comic process that merely marks time: he gets nowhere, but then he doesn’t want to get anywhere. Although there is no possibility of any real change in Sam, he never stops changing: Sam stays there inside Sam, getting less and less like the rest of mankind and more and more like Sam, Sam squared, Sam cubed, Sam to the nth.
Randall Jarrell
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I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.
Louis Sachar
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
Maxim Gorky
