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Love is everything it's cracked up to be. ... ERICA JONG Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. Th... ERICA JONG If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old,... HENRY ROLLINS Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU If you don't read it, you don't know. I mean, that's why I have a PR team. They read it ... ANNE WOJCICKI You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know a... ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF I don't care what you say about me anymore! I don't care what you write about me anymore. I ... GERRY COONEY Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do ... J. P. MORGAN When you let those defensive backs know that you're a physical player, they don't really wan... EZEKIEL ELLIOTT When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's ... ROGER FEDERER I think that nothing is impossible when you want to fulfill a dream. A lot of people will tell you t... THALIA If you have notoriety, you can dress any way you want to dress. That's the way it is. I just lik... RIC FLAIR If I see something really nasty on Twitter, I will usually delete it or block the person because I d... KENDALL JENNER Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. The... SOPHIA LOREN I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tel... LEE DANIELS It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If ... TYLER PERRY I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think ... ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER Seems to me there are more questions than answers. What's the rush? That ($88 million) price is good... TOM ALLEN Everything I've ever taught in terms of self-help boils down to this - I cannot believe people k... MARTHA BECK Of course, once you've been a Beatle, you're never really out of it. People always want to k... GEORGE HARRISON It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to... KARL PILKINGTON I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it. 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They told me that, and I was like, You g... TYLER PERRY If you want to get a facelift, get a facelift. Don't sit there and talk about why you got it bec... DEBRA WINGER You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't ... MARIO BALOTELLI I think a good friend, to me, is all about trust and loyalty. You don't ever want to second-gues... LAUREN CONRAD I don't want to get married - I've been there and done that. So I know what I'm talking ... LONI LOVE It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building comp... STEVE JOBS If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'Y... RUTH BADER GINSBURG Unless you want to fuck me, why do you care what I look like? EMINEM If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. KATHY ACKER Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do. SAM ALTMAN I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want t... AARON TVEIT If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good busin... STUART ROSE Mes poumons sont remplis de l'air pur
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JAMES BALDWIN Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is... JAMES BALDWIN When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. JAMES BALDWIN No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, ... JAMES BALDWIN No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, fo... JAMES BALDWIN Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion... JAMES BALDWIN There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one ou... JAMES BALDWIN Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imita... JAMES BALDWIN It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themsel... JAMES BALDWIN Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a s... JAMES BALDWIN Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. JAMES BALDWIN People can cry much easier than they can change. JAMES BALDWIN The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly si... JAMES BALDWIN The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, ... JAMES BALDWIN All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forc... JAMES BALDWIN Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibilit... JAMES BALDWIN We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied ... JAMES BALDWIN The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. JAMES BALDWIN Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and stre... JAMES BALDWIN Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocu... JAMES BALDWIN I don't get acting jobs because of my looks. ALEC BALDWIN Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits. JAMES BALDWIN He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a ... JAMES BALDWIN The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible. JAMES BALDWIN Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immut... JAMES BALDWIN What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity f... MONICA BALDWIN The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. JAMES BALDWIN I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. STANLEY BALDWIN For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their abili... JAMES BALDWIN