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“I understand a lot of celebrities lose weight because they have the opportunity to get in shape and become healthier, but when you get so polished, you can't tell the story of a blue-collar family anymore.”
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“Photograph each day so we can live forever”
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“When a soldier of the night's watch dies they say, "And now his watch is over." That's what they say when a comedian dies. They go, "And now his tour is done."”
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“Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we influence nature, we influence ourselves; when we change nature, we change ourselves.”
Source : Daniel Botkin (2012). “The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered”, p.324, Oxford University Press
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“Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.”
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“From the summer of my twelfth year I carry a series of images more vivid and lasting than any others of my boyhood and indelible beyond all attempts the years make to erase or fade them.”
Source : Larry Watson (2010). “Montana 1948: A Novel”, p.15, Milkweed Editions
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“Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
Source : Victor Kiam (1987). “Going for It: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur”, Signet
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“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
Source : John Edward Williams (1965). “Stoner: A Novel”
