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“Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.”
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“One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life is going to be better and finer and fuller. That everyone else attended some secret lesson in which how to live was taught and you had a dental appointment that day, or you were somehow not invited. And the point of great writers like Wilde is that they make that invitation to you.”
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“Comfort is the enemy of creativity.”
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“Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.”
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“A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
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“Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.”
Source : "Florentine Histories" by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1526.
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“I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.”
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“People have been introduced to our band in so many ways. Whether we were playing at their college or we were the record that entertained their kids with.”
Source : "From "One Week" to 14 Albums: The Barenaked Ladies Still Rocking Strong and Silly After 27 Years". Interview with Kelli Bender, people.com. June 17, 2015. 
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“When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me.”
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“You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.”
