"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
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"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
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- Henry Louis Mencken Arts and Entertainment There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
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And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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-- Anonymous Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
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"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
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-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
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-- Benjamin Tillett In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
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"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
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I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
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-- George Washington Arts and Entertainment Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
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"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
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-- Oscar Wilde "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
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