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9025 Actually quotes by 5270 unique authors
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Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how…
— Jeff Bezos
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I get called Jacqueline Bissette in America. In France, I get called Jackie Bisset. And actually, it is Jacqueline Bisset, which is not that easy…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.
— Lewis Black
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So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.
— Tony Blair
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You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit…
— Cate Blanchett
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Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?
— Cate Blanchett
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I cannot save the world; that's not what I'm trying to do. I guess I'm just trying to walk the walk and be an example…
— Mary J. Blige
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When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are.
— Usain Bolt
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I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
— Usain Bolt
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Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone…
— Unknown Author
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The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know,…
— Unknown Author
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It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
— Edward de Bono
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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
— Edward de Bono
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My belief is that guns are too easy to get in America. My belief is that the NRA has bought much of our congress, to…
— Elayne Boosler
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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
— Alain de Botton
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In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of…
— David Bowie
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Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
— Christina Aguilera
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I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very…
— Brandon Boyd
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I think they say that when you're breast feeding, you know, your weight kind of slims down. It's a little easier. It's like a workout…
— Christina Aguilera
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I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don't have to cook it, which…
— Jo Brand
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It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.
— Jo Brand
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No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.
— Jo Brand
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The funny thing is, I don't actually think of myself as fat at all. I don't think I am. Not really.
— Jo Brand
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