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“Look at your watch now. You're still a super hot female.”
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“I think it's important to have a blend just as we need to have by the way a mix of different opera companies and different arts companies.”
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“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.”
Source : Alan Alda's commencement speech at Connecticut College in New London, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980. 
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“Don't cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep living anyway. Save enough joy in your heart to enjoy it. Let your reward be in the doing of it.”
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“Unhappy voters thought the anemic economy, Obamacare, the collapse of U.S. foreign policy, the scandals in government, and the incompetent handling of everything from the Islamic State to Ebola were the only real issues. Democrats'€™ refusal to acknowledge them did not make these failures go away.”
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“Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.”
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“We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.”
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“Why is there always one bloke in these boy bands who looks like he came to fix the boiler and somehow got bullied into joining the group?”
Source : John Connolly (2011). “The Infernals: A Samuel Johnson Tale”, Simon and Schuster
