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Sheer luck. I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.


Suzy Parker
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I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a score by sheer luck, you can't do it constantly, unless you're willing to put the resources in.
Merton Miller
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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.


Giordano Bruno
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Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
Adrian Edmondson
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As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
William Godwin
Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
Stephen Bayley
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Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.
Tom Golisano
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
William J. H. Boetcker
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
A. C. Benson
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Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.


David Bowie
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I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month.


Steve Cropper
While I appreciated the educational advantages I enjoyed in the school and was proud of what I could show in mental culture, I had an earnest desire for something more than a mere business education... I desired to study for a profession, and this prompted me to leave my native state.
Hiram Rhodes Revels
If one comes across sometimes as being cold or brusque, it's simply because I'm striving for the best.
Anna Wintour
I'm pretty sarcastic, and sometimes that doesn't come across on the Internet. It seems like I'm being rude or stupid.
Sky Ferreira
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A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
Robert McNamara
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.


Bear Grylls
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There's something fabulously decadent about staying in a hotel across the street from where you live.
Marley Shelton
Whenever you are faced with someone who has made far more errors in judgment and far more mistakes than you, you have a tendency to get on your high horse.
Julia Roberts
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It is not just disposable income but whether people feel good about their immediate future that drives sales. It is this feel-good factor that drives the purchases more and more than mere economic wealth.
Johann Rupert
Online advertising may not be much more successful than an old double-barrel, but - like a good spray of buckshot - it makes up for its lack of accuracy with sheer volume. There are 10 unique ads listed with every Gmail message in your queue, each tied to the message content. And a paying sponsor.
Douglas Rushkoff
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