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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.


W. C. Fields
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Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.


Louise Bogan
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
D. H. Lawrence
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.


Niels Bohr
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
Samuel Johnson
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time.
George Sutherland
Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.


Paul Valery
Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
Eddie Trunk
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
Earl Warren
It was improv that really helped me start coming up with recipes and just believe in my instincts. That's why the first recipe I made up was 'I Ain't Chicken Chicken' because I finally felt bold and fearless in the kitchen, which was an entirely new feeling for me.
Aarti Sequeira
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I loved the Scarecrow and the Tin Man and the Lion and you could kind of see the actors' faces in them. It wasn't an entirely new face sculpted around them. What made those characters so human and appealing to me was seeing those great actors underneath there. They weren't lost behind a bunch of appliances.
Rich Moore
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Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
Steve Allen
Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.
Josh Holloway
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The brilliance of Adam Scott is that he is so damn funny in a straight man role.


Rob Thomas
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Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.


Oscar Niemeyer
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.


Patrick Kavanagh
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I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.


Jean Paul
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I don't remember titles of books or authors from when I was young. I remember the title of only one book, which was 'The Timber Toes.' I remember it was a family of little wooden people who lived in the woods, and for some reason that stayed with me.
Sharon Creech
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You've got to be a really straight man to write a song like 'It's Raining Men.'


Paul Shaffer
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