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“Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.”
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“My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.”
Source : Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin
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“I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you.”
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“Beliefs and thoughts alter cells in your body.”
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“A timely, interesting, educational approach to today's wine picture. Wine still makes a feast out of a meal, but in times of not so plenty we will enjoy a bottle that is more reasonable. This tome is a must-read for wine lovers as well as the trade.”
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“Cultural perspective on gender diversity in computing,”
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“When you’re living in the moment, you’re living in the moment; whatever that moment is, that’s your reality. Everything else is a myth.”
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“A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address.”
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“The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.”