What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet
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I've never been a true fan of the short story and have only published a single example of my own.
Jim Harrison
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Success gives you a platform for further success - suddenly everybody wants to work with you, and your opportunities and possibilities open up. But at the same time, success is also immensely challenging - it ultimately often creates pride, stubbornness, and sloppiness that beget failure, taking down people and organizations.
Joe Lonsdale
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I had hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax penalties.
Sia
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I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
Robert E. Lee
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We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section.
Robert Toombs
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In coming closer to nature, man shows himself superior to it. As a mere part of nature, man's existence would be a series of isolated phenomena. All life would proceed from and depend on contact with the outside world.
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
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I can't force people to agree with me.
Michel Hazanavicius
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When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara came to power, too many thought he would hold to his promise to stand down, introduce democratic elections and restore the rule of law.
Mo Ibrahim
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It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.
Dee Dee Myers
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Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like 'What did you do to yourself?' I was so embarrassed.
Ashley Tisdale
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I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.
Ali MacGraw
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In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.
Paula Fox
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