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“Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.”
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“Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.”
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“The only perfect climate is bed.”
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“Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.”
Source : Lotte Lehmann (2013). “More Than Singing: The Interpretation of Songs”, p.11, Courier Corporation
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“I have not taken my good looks seriously from the beginning. When I would be teased by my friends about my looks, I would just make a self-deprecating remark and let it pass.”
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“There is no firm dividing line between what is an epidemic and what is not an epidemic, but I think, when you look at a map that shows widespread influenza activity in 36 states, that we regard it -- from a common-sense perspective -- as an epidemic.”
Source : "CDC head calls flu outbreak 'epidemic'". www.cnn.com. December 19, 2003. 
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“Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish.”
Source : Bethenny Frankel, Eve Adamson (2011). “A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
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“Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.”
