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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

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• I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Think
  • Talk
  • Colleagues

• It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Sad
  • Right

• I'm a writer more than I am a talker.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Writer
  • Talker

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Play

• The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• I wonder, 'Why did I do that line that way?' And I also constantly think I'm fat and hate my teeth. But I've gotten better over the years. I've started to accept.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Wonder

• In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Free
  • Crime

• For research, I like to go to the location of the places in the novels. The first thing that I do is involve my senses: I notice the smells; I open the trash cans and look at what people have thrown away.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • People
  • Research
  • Senses

• Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Guy
  • Red
  • Management

• And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Start

• Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture without being snubbed.

  

  J. M. W. Turner
  • Painting
  • Architecture

• It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful.

  

  Bea Arthur

• Brainwashed from rock and rap.

  

  Eminem
  • Rock
  • Rap

• Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

  

  Arthur Koestler
  • Learning
  • Teacher

• I don't feel that I have to prove anything to anyone as far as what I've done in fighting.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Done
  • Fighting

• The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.

  

  Joey Lauren Adams
  • Funny
  • Blonde

• Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.

  

  Johnny Vegas
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

  

  Paul J. Meyer
  • Leadership
  • inspirational
  • Commitment

• All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• He stares at me, and then leans back in his chair. "He's ill, Jacob." I say nothing. "He's a paragon schnitzophonic." "He's what?!" "Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al. "You mean paranoid schizophrenic?" "Sure. Whatever. But the bottom line is he's mad as a hatter.

  

  Sara Gruen
  • Mean
  • Mad
  • Bottom

• Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

  

  Cato the Elder
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