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I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good on...
LEO BURNETT

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good on...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a goo...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN

I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands o...
LEO BURNETT

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.
OSCAR WILDE

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J. G. BALLARD

Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.
PETE SEEGER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS

It takes a week to write a book, but it takes years to write a good one.
M.F. MOONZAJER ANY FOOL CAN GET INTO AN OCEAN
BUT IT TAKES A GODDESS
TO GET OUT OF ONE.
JACK SPICER

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. . . . It takes a touch of genius--and...
JOHN DRYDEN

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius and a lot...
ERNST F. SCHUMACHER Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a l...
E. F. SCHUMACHER Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can ...
MARTIN FOWLER

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a...
JOHN DRYDEN

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lo...
ALBERT EINSTEIN A man who loves a bad name cares less about the future of his great grand children.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of gen...
E. F. [ERNST FRIEDRICH] SCHUMACHER Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of g...
E. F. SCHUMACHER

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of gen...
ERNST F. SCHUMACHER Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of gen...
E. F. SCHUMACKER

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of ge...
E. F.SCHUMACKER Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of gen...
E. F. SCHUMACHER Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of gen...
E. F. SCHUMACKER Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of ge...
E. F. SCHUMACKER Any fool can become rich but only a wise person can keep it.
IPE MATHEW

Any boy can get a girl, it takes a man to keep one.
JESS MCGOVERN

It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study...
APURVA GAGLANI

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
SAM RAYBURN

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one
SAM RAYBURN Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of gen...
E. F. SCHUMACHER That one wasn't bad. It was in on his hands, where I wanted it. But he's a good hitter.
VICTOR SANTOS Any fool can cause a strike. But no fool can resolve one.
GEORGE ANTHONY

A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know.
DEBASISH MRIDHA

Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
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You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
CONFUCIUS

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CARTER CROCKER

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STEPHEN KING I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG Any BITCH can get a man, and any GIRL can keep him... But it takes a REAL WOMAN to settle him down, ...
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How do you know about the world is real?...
How?...
How you don't think that you are locke...
DEYTH BANGER

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NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS

Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE

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ELLIOT MABEUSE

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I can be a stupid girl inside of a crazy woman at times over you. If I weren’t, you should be worr...
CRYSTAL WOODS

What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.
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If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.
DAVID OGILVY

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again...
CRISS JAMI

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be underst...
DALE CARNEGIE

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understa...
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MICHAEL H. DANSBURY

If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA

The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you...
FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
AVIS COREA Then the truth is this: a good man can only aspire to be worthy of a good woman. She'll always be ou...
JAMES ANDERSON A godmother is always there and genuine.The help she has given will never be forgotten but will glis...
GARY F EVANS... If tomorrow was yesterday then yesterday would be tomorrow, if we think about the past why not think...
GARY F EVANS... Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others.
APURVA GAGLANI

and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of...
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get ang...
CHANAKYA

There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ...
BRENT M. JONES

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER

If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing
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There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become ...
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It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.
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It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, ...
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If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your ...
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Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: '...
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I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.
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I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.
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Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they we...
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I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically alig...
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Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, ...
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It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on televis...
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Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.
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I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for...
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I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.
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Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.
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My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.
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The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.
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It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.
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I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took bi...
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Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?
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I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.'
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I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
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Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one.

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Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one.

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