You Quotes
59750 You quotes by 14392 unique authors
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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
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For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
— Charles Baudelaire
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
— Jean Baudrillard
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
— Jean Baudrillard
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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
— Jean Baudrillard
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession…
— Jean Baudrillard
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also…
— Jean Baudrillard
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are…
— Jean Baudrillard
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first…
— Gary Bauer
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You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even…
— Scott Adams
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Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.
— Scott Adams
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There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six…
— Scott Adams
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You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he…
— Scott Adams
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
— Scott Adams
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You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
— Scott Adams
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Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
— Scott Adams
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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
— Anne Baxter
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I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately.
— Scott Adams
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I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.'
— Scott Adams
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The longer you work here, diverse it gets.
— Scott Adams
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Obviously there's not much options when you're a cartoonist - you pretty much either work at home or rent an office I guess, and working…
— Scott Adams
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One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps…
— Scott Adams
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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about…
— Charles A. Beard
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