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Just think of the work you've set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Well, I quit smoking three weeks ago and I had a hard day today not smoking. — Eric Roberts Copy Share Image
The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I've always been very outspoken and a supporter of the underdog, because I'm one as well. I — Patricia Montandon Copy Share Image
I can act... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually. — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well. — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
Well, once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
In Toronto, Serena Williams was not fit at all, not striking the ball well at all, and went three sets with someone… — Tracy Austin Copy Share Image
When you make something that everyone likes, it's very easy to say, "Well, I'll just repeat that." Because that was easy. I… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Get your hand off me,” I exclaimed, voice loud with misplaced anger as I yanked away from his grip. “I’m a professional,… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
With support from institutions like the United Nations as well as the donor community, governments can strengthen their national technological and scientific… — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Copy Share Image
Every day is the same thing out the door Feel further away then ever before Some things in life, it gets too… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
There's this thing, they have in french: L'espirit d'escalier. The spirit of the stairway. I don't think we have a word for… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Most liberal-minded folk would like to think that since they are not hostile to people of a different race, racism is a… — Trevor Phillips Copy Share Image
The churches had left me cold, but I thought there's got to be a God. I remember going out, this is in… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
On Monday they went out for a private picnic. On Tuesday they went for a carriage drive. On Wednesday they went to… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Well, if there is a spectrum between ethnic and civic forms of nationalism, which is a rather schematic way of looking at… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
We have been underserved, underprivileged and unfortunate for far too long. There are no more excuses. It's not enough to have limited… — T.I Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we're in love, we take the facts and spin them into pretty stories. But it's a dangerous thing to do--because… — Kirsten Miller Copy Share Image
If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic. — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey. — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
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