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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Bette Davis

Truth builds trust.

Marilyn Suttle

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Bertolt Brecht

To be wise and love exceeds man's might.

William Shakespeare

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

Juliette Binoche

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

Walter Bagehot

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

Gertrude Stein

The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.

Charlie Sheen

I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.

Evander Holyfield

Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.

John Green

When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would make reading and writing the infatuation of people who have no business reading and writing.

James Burke, The Knowledge Web,

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

Kurt Vonnegut