A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

-George Bernard Shaw

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

-G. K. Chesterson

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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

-Anne Tyler

 

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Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

-George Lois

 

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

-Al Capp

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

-Isak Dineson

 

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I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

-Georges Duhamel

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

-Orson Welles

 

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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

-Fran Lebowitz

 

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What a deformed thief this fashion is.

-William Shakespeare

 

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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

-Sophia Loren

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

-Pablo Picasso

 

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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

-Pablo Picasso

 

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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

-Alec Bourne

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

-Paul Gauguin

 

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

-Oscar Wilde

 

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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

-Jewish Proverb

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

-Paul Gauguin

 

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

-Havelock Ellis

 

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

-John Lilly

 

 

 

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

-Leo Rosten

 

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

-Voltaire

 

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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

-Japanese Proverb

 

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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

-Jack London

 

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

-Dick Cavett

 

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

-Jules de Gaultier

 

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The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

-Laurence J Peter

 

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It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.

-Philip Adams

 

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You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

-Rosalynn Carter

 

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Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

-Fletcher Knebel

 

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Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

-Cecil B. DeMille

 

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One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

-Nancy Astor

 

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

-Anais Nin

 

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

-Mark Twain

 

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

-Mark Twain

 

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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

-Sophy Burnham

 

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I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

-Wilson Mizner

 

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

-Seneca

 

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Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

-Heywood Broun

 

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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

-Spanish Proverb

 

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

-Koran

 

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I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

-Elvis Presley

 

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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

-Albert Einstein

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