“I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive – like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable – there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.”
— Beth Ditto
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Category: positive
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“Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.”
— Ted Williams
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Category: sports
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“I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.”
— Vernor Vinge
Author: Vernor Vinge
Category: intelligence
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“It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.”
— Thomas A. Edison
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Category: work
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“No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.”
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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Category: marriage
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“Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.”
— Rashida Jones
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Category: music
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“I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.”
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Author: Mikhail Baryshnikov
Category: society
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“Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.”
— Samuel Richardson
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Category: men
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“If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.”
— Calvin Coolidge
Author: Calvin Coolidge
Category: success
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“As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.”
— Albert Camus
Author: Albert Camus
Category: society
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“Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.”
— Warren Farrell
Author: Warren Farrell
Category: women
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