Melvil Dewey Quotes
Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
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The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.
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I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.
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Shun all vice, especially card playing.
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I have no literary fears.
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Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
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I started to realize that comedy is what I really wanted to do, but I didn't want to do stand-up.
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The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.
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Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.
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Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.
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I got stopped in front of the bras in Victoria's Secret; I get interrogated in airport bathrooms. I went to South Africa in January to see my family, and even there people would stop me and ask, "Sasha, who's A?" Even my grandma.
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I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?
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You know the problem, we don't want to believe what we know.
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Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.
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To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.
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I use music as a medium to talk to people.
