Quotes are the key to the knowledge and wisdom of many great people. Find your own beacon on the road to success among our collection of inspirational quotes.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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These self-anointed intellectuals are people who think that those who believe in God and Jesus Christ, those who 'cling to their guns and their religion,' are a lower form of animal life, while they, themselves, have no problem whatever accepting Obama as a messiah and, in the past, deifying the likes of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Let's face it, when you kneel in a church, you're accepting that there is something greater and wiser than yourself in the universe. When, on the other hand, you kneel to a left-wing politician, you're merely emulating Monica Lewinsky.
Burt Prelutsky
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God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
C. S. Lewis
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The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.
Jacques Lacan
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Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.
Brad Falchuk
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
Alexandre Dumas
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Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
James Huneker
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I think actors make the mistake of finding their little niche in the business and once they try to do something a little darker, boom, they get slapped across the face for it, so they go back to what they did before.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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Sometimes we pee on each other before we go on stage.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead
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Historically the buffalo had more influence on man than all other Plains animals combined. It was life, food, raiment, and shelter to the Indians. The buffalo and the Plains Indians lived together, and together passed away. The year 1876 marks practically the end of both.
Walter Prescott Webb
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Meditation … puts into question more or less everything you tend to do in your search for happiness. But if you lose sight of this, it can become just another strategy for seeking happiness-a more refined version of the problem you already have.
Sam Harris
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
Fran Lebowitz
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The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity-nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness.
Walt Whitman
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We need leaders who can reflect theologically and help develop more robust thinking that understands how context affects our understanding of God, humankind, the fall, and redemption.
Ed McBain
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Friendship is the start for what you call love.
Abraham Lincoln
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I hate being a blonde.
Leslie Bibb
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The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it.
Mark Levin
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Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.
John Lyly
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I played the Spanish guitar for eight years, like flamenco.
Martin Garrix Area21
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
Barbra Streisand
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I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.
Wavy Gravy
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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
Friedrich Schiller
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
Rachel Brosnahan
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Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
Mason Cooley
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Though the terrain of frustration may be vast - from a stubbed toe to an untimely death - at the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
Alain de Botton