Quotes are the key to the knowledge and wisdom of many great people. Find your own beacon on the road to success among our collection of inspirational quotes.
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I am my own muse, the subject I know best.
Frida Kahlo
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You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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He who believes in God and the Last Day should honour his guest; he who believes in God and the Last Day should not annoy his neighbours; and he who believes in God and the Last Day should say what is good or keep silent.
Elijah Muhammad
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It is now possible to target adverts to the right person at the right time in the right place. But that is not enough.
Jerry Della Femina
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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
Mary Oliver
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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
J. B. Smoove
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I am rooted, but I flow.
Virginia Woolf
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
Victoria Principal
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The power given by the Constitution to the Executive to interpose his veto is a high conservative power; but in my opinion it should never be exercised except in cases of clear violation of the Constitution, or manifest haste and want of due consideration by Congress.
Zachary Taylor
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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
Octavia E. Butler
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Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time director, there is a way to talk about things they might not know. Because Clark was an actor, though, he knew more about the process than most first-time directors.
Sam Rockwell
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In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.
Octavia E. Butler
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I'm disappointed in people in general.
Vint Cerf
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Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.
Gary Bauer
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
Edmund White
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It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.
Vaclav Havel
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At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.
Harold Rosenberg
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We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.
Ma Jun
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
Jackie Kennedy
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
Irwin Thomas
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Cannon, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.
Ambrose Bierce
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The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.
Samantha Power
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
Kailash Satyarthi