P. T. Barnum Quotes

Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.

P. T. Barnum

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I'm all for information diets, which are helpful for the mood and for the art.

John Cameron Mitchell

ArtInformationMoodHelpfulDiets

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.

Robert Harris

LifePoliticsComplicatedMoreLike

You can write a script, but that's just a starting point as a cartoonist. The heart of the process comes when you start to draw it, and you work out how to lay the page out, how best to tell the story.

Jeff Lemire

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Compulsive eating is an emotional problem, and we use an emotional approach to its solution.

Jean Nidetch

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I want to live a fulfilling life.

Amy Purdy

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Human beings will justify anything.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

WillHumanAnythingHuman Beings

I use my sport and my talent as a tool to spread God's word. Whatever I get out of it, all glory goes to Him.

Tua Tagovailoa

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You got to be willing to be knocked out to win a fight. You got to be willing to get booed off the stage to get a standing ovation.

Tony Rock

FightWinYouStageOutStanding

I knew that if I worked hard, I could have both - I could have a family, because that was important to me, and I could have a career.

Judy Sheindlin

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Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

Jean de la Bruyere

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One reason that birds matter - ought to matter - is that they are our last, best connection to a natural world that is otherwise receding. They're the most vivid and widespread representatives of the Earth as it was before people arrived on it.

Jonathan Franzen

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