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I was always silly in high school. I used to always get in trouble because I was laughing. I've always thought I was funny but never thought I could use it to make money. In 1996, I decided I was going to use my humor to get on TV to make money.

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We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.

Joe Slovo

OpinionOvercomingProcessPlace

I think if you come straight on honest as much as you can, eventually that turns into success. Maybe not as quick as you'd like.

Jennifer Warnes

SuccessThinkYouQuickHonestCome

People tend to create drama and make things far worse than they are in reality.

Jen Sincero

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If you go back to the history of the 'Madden' game, I was probably on the cover of it half the time. So if I was to believe there was a curse, I would also have to believe I'd been cursed. And I've never had that feeling.

John Madden

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In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approximates a 'whisper' is encryption. When I cannot whisper in my wife's ear or the ears of my business partners, and have to communicate electronically, then encryption is our tool to keep our secrets secret.

John McAfee

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Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

Robert Smithson

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Once you see the impact that you have on people, either at a meet and greet or after a show, you think, 'Oh man, they need to feel better today.'

Andy Grammer

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Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.

Amy Cuddy

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I'm me. I can't put on airs. I'm not a phony. I know the way I am hurts me more times than it helps. But somehow it's all tied up with my integrity, and my integrity is the last thing I'm going to let you take from me.

Tony Dorsett

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The mirror is a powerful tool because it forces you to deal with yourself on a deeper level. Conceptually, paintings are like mirrors. They're an expression from the artist: 'This is how I view the world - I'm presenting it to you.'

Mickalene Thomas

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Change is often the agent of progress in ways we can't always readily see in the early days.

Lloyd Blankfein

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My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties.

Jose Rizal

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