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The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

-- Robert Burton

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I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.

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Last week I was walking by a cemetery, two guys came after me with shovels. It was all about money.

-- Rodney Dangerfield

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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

-- Edsger Dijkstra

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The other night a mugger took off his mask and made me wear it.

-- Rodney Dangerfield

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To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.

-- Paul McCartney

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We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.

-- Michael Stipe

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One thing I always heard from the begining when I talked about this being a movie - was that the rule is that animated movies don't work unless they're Disney movies for kids. Unless they're family movies.

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Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.

-- Conrad Aiken

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Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

-- Lewis H. Lapham

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