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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.


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In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.


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For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.
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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
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It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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If you wonder why urban young black women are allowing themselves to be victimized by Planned Parenthood, look at BET, which is owned by very wealthy white Democrats.
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Think nothing done while aught remains to do.


Samuel Rogers
If you let people own their land, they take care of it. That's why privately owned land is always taken care of, and the parks look like cesspools. Nobody takes care of what everybody owns.
Grover Norquist
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
Hermann Hesse
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time.
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Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.


Kin Hubbard
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I think sometimes in life we rush and only later look back and say, 'Wow, that was something pretty cool that I did,' and we realize we should have been more aware while it was happening.
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You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while you are here.
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Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory.
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If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.


Joan Bennett
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Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
Craig Venter
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Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.


Daniel Kahneman
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I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'.
Samantha Bond
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