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"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers."

"In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?"

Kanye West

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men."

Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)

"What luck for rulers that men do not think."

Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."

Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995)

"Joy is not in things; it is in us."

Richard Wagner

"The reverse side also has a reverse side."

Japanese Proverb

"I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood."

Tom Hanks (1956 - )

"Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends."

Woody Allen (1935 - )

"Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock."

John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)

"They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse."

Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

"Variety is the soul of pleasure."

Aphra Behn

"If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?"

Steven Wright (1955 - )

"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."

Charles Austin Beard (1874 - 1948)

"I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run."

Babe Ruth (1895 - 1948)

"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason."

John Cage (1912 - 1992)

"You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart."

Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)

"Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places."

E. Joseph Cossman

"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."

Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )

"Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again." (The Wizard of Oz)

Rick Polito

"People are fond of spouting out the old cliché about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his example serves to justify to us, decades later, that there is somehow merit in utter failure.

Perhaps, but the man did commit suicide."

Hugh Macleod

"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost."

Thomas J. Watson

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)