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Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of… — Kathy Acker
We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human. — Antonin Artaud
Basically I just had to say, Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me… — Kirk Hammett
If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I… — James C. Collins
Young people must learn that none of the exciting and entertaining fun things are worth it if they take you off the path that will… — William R. Bradford
There are those much more rare people who never lose their curiosity, their almost childlike wonder at the world; those people who continue to learn… — William Herbert Sheldon
I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your… — Charles Lamb
If all the good people were clever And all the clever people were good The world would be nicer than ever We thought that it… — Elizabeth Wordsworth
Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the… — George Eliot
I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach… — Knute Rockne
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say,… — Jeremy Bentham
Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails,… — Julian Fellowes
You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I… — Dennis Kucinich
When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to… — Eliza Dushku
Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent… — John C. Maxwell
It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they use Jesus as… — Rich Mullins
Get out well, but not too quickly, move through the field, be comfortable. Strategy-wise, go with your strengths. If you don't have a great finish,… — John Treacy
No one knows the fear in a front runner's mind more than me. When you set off at a cracking pace for four or five… — Ron Clarke
I limbered up just a little before entering the stadium, and even so I felt a twinge in my thigh, no doubt the fruit of… — Jules Ladoumegue

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