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To be an artist you have to have talent, to be a good one you have to have insanity


Emily Desmond

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PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
JEFFREY FRY You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE.
LORRIN L. LEE Sometimes life gets a little boring so you have to do something crazy to remember your alive!
NEIL OLSSON You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I believe that the most important thing for a couple of any sort, to realize in their relationship w...
C. JOYBELL C. Be the best you can be. Do the best you can do. Have the best you can have.
LORRIN L. LEE Everyone has there own good reasons for being what they are being, doing what they are doing, and ha...
LORRIN L. LEE O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN Believe. Have faith. Don't stand in your own way. If you don't believe in yourself, a positive outco...
AKIROQ BROST Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.
SYED SHARUKH I hadn't said goodbye. It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, sparing myself the messy ...
SARAH DESSEN To have more... Be more. Do more. Give more.
LORRIN L. LEE Are you being the best you can be? Are you doing the best you can do? Do you have the best you can h...
LORRIN L. LEE DO what you LOVE. BE with those you LOVE. HAVE the things you LOVE.
LORRIN L. LEE To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That’s not fair!

Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo...
JOHN M SHEEHAN The Best Person to BE is Who You are. The Best thing to DO is what you Love. The Best Things to HAVE...
LORRIN L. LEE Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.
LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS A great way to LIVE is to BE, DO, and HAVE all the things you really, really, really want before you...
LORRIN L. LEE To be happy: BE Yourself. DO what you love to DO. Have what you love to HAVE.
LORRIN L. LEE BE Memorable. Do Memorable Projects. HAVE Memorable Experiences.
LORRIN L. LEE To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.
RICHIE NORTON I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.
EMINEM You are only a poor person if you are not happy with what you have.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Spread love. Hug the people you care about and make sure they know that you care and appreciate them...
GERMANY KENT Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Approach people with an open mind so you can learn from them
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ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
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ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY I have learned to be patient.
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LORRIN L. LEE Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have?
ANTHONY T. HINCKS To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ...
STEPHANIE KLEIN To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people...
ANUJ SOMANY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T...
THOMAS S. MONSON Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together.
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DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN Words can hurt, but words can also inspire.
MISCHA TEMAUL Focus on beauty to have a beautiful life.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless.
and
Just because you don't...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
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CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Strength is not something you have, it's something you find.
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CHLOE THURLOW To believe in something can be inspiration for many people .To believe is to have faith in what you ...
GARY F EVANS... What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb.
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MITCH ALBOM If you stopped yourself every time you said "I have to", and changed it to "I get to" it might chang...
KYLE PAGERLY Happiness is wanting what you have instead of wanting what you don't have.
LORRIN L. LEE We tend to not appreciate what we have until we lose it.
LORRIN L. LEE Now they have a riddle.

- Criminal Minds
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DESMOND TUTU Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundat...
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PAUL DESMOND I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted it to sound like a dry martini.
PAUL DESMOND I felt a responsibility to all other newsletter publishers.
PAUL DESMOND Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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DESMOND TUTU Rural experiences are a key part of the therapy people need as an urban escape. They want to take th...
DESMOND JOLLY Every year we have new ones. Agricultural tourism is growing. The object is to maximize direct sales...
DESMOND JOLLY We do know that with good management, good advertising and outreach -- and of course you have to hav...
DESMOND JOLLY Some people looked really messed up. There were rivers of blood.
DESMOND EDWARDS The first tramcars rattled noisily through the empty streets, dilapidated monsters that just hours l...
DESMOND DOIG I don't think I've ever forced a fumble before. I always played offense my whole life -- a little de...
DESMOND CLARK Going into Thursday's practice I hit a brick wall and felt real bad. I felt like I had to throw up a...
DESMOND CLARK Kyle played good. He played good for his first game.
DESMOND CLARK Rex is more instinctive in terms of being able to make plays on the run. Besides that, I don't think...
DESMOND CLARK When he threw it, I was on the goal line and had to kind of stretch out for the ball, ... I knew I w...
DESMOND CLARK I wasn't able to keep my balance very well,
DESMOND CLARK [Of course, the previous staff claimed the tight end would play a more prominent role in the offense...
DESMOND CLARK I'm shooting for the sky, ... There wasn't a tight end that had 80 catches last year, so I'm trying ...
DESMOND CLARK [Clark figures if he can catch 51 passes as a reserve, which he did in Denver two years ago, there's...
DESMOND CLARK After the last few games, I felt like I should go to all of the defensive players and apologize pers...
DESMOND CLARK Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.
DESMOND LLEWELYN There are very strong winds of change blowing through the continent of Latin America and they seem t...
DESMOND LACHMAN There's just a huge amount of money sloshing around looking for a place to go.
DESMOND LACHMAN My expectation is that we will see countries lapsing back to some sort of controls on trade, on capi...
DESMOND LACHMAN The whole of art is an appeal to a reality which is not without us but in our minds
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