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• I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.

  Will Self

  Book, Computer, I Can

  "Writers' rooms: Will Self". www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2007.

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• If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

  William Shatner

  Pants, Fool, Dignity

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• Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.

  William Shatner

  Jobs, Men, Doe

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• Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Clever, Silly, Writing

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• I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.

  Ed Sheeran

  Single Life, Done, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 'Fabulosity' is to get up when you've been kicked down, and it's not to go after who kicked you down.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Get Up

  "Couple of the Moment: Kimora & Djimon" by Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 14, 2008.

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• There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

  Robert Smith

  Becoming, Stage, No Hope

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• I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

  Kevin Spacey

  Responsibility, Break Through, Giving

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• I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.

  Britney Spears

  Writing, Thinking, Machines

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• I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Sky, Records

  "Bishop Shelby Spong". "Sunday Nights" with John Cleary, www.abc.net.au. June 17, 2001.

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• The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!

  Layne Staley

  Song, Thinking, Ems

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• Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look holier-than-thou.

  Charles Stanley

  Forgiving, Looks, Faces

  Charles F. Stanley (1987). “Forgiveness”

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• You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

  Gertrude Stein

  Jobs, Lying, Stupid

  Gertrude Stein (2004). “Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures, 1911-1945”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.

  Patrick Stewart

  Stars, Couple, Past

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• I'm not one of those people who sits at dinner on their iPhone all night. I'm either working or I'm not. I've gone down that path where you sleep with your phone beside the bed and send an email just before you put your head down and check everything again when you wake up, and I don't like it.

  Curtis Stone

  Sleep, Night, Iphone

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• I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, People, Singing

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• One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit - boom! - and I'm down and out. What a way to die!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Heart, Long, Goal

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• We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.

  Emma Thompson

  Sex, Communication, Fighting

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• A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Book, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.24, Yale University Press

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• It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership, Peace, Motivation

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1962). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.

  Yani Tseng

  Smile, Calm, Nervous

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• I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.

  Shania Twain

  Honesty, Emotional, Compassion

  "Shania Twain Reveals Heartbreak: Who's the Most Jilted Female Celebrity?". www.foxnews.com. May 04, 2011.

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• It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason.

  Steven Tyler

  Feel Good, Reason, Uncertain

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• When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.

  Samuel Ullman

  Heart, Ice, Snow

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• At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

  Carrie Underwood

  Years, People, Skins

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