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Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.
Bill Gates

Success, Musician, Anxious

Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.
Bill Gates

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Pablo Picasso

Work, Give, Through

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Alexander the Great

Teacher, Father, Living

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, 'Well, what do you need?'
Steven Wright

Said, Asked, Canada

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
Lord Chesterfield

Whatever, Worth

I'm not a person that socializes very well.
Paulo Coelho

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
Andrew Jackson

Government, Business, Legal

There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.
Angelina Jolie

Director, Motherhood, Asking

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France

Equality, Sleep, Law

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
J. R. R. Tolkien

Less, Deserve, Half

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
George Sand

Yourself, Kindness, Give

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.
Jim Valvano

Trust, Bad, Thinking

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
Victor Hugo

Child, Secret, Keeps

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
William James

Age, Character, Again

Man lives for science as well as bread.
William James

Science, Lives, Bread

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Og Mandino

Thinking, Through, Worth

Life, if well lived, is long enough.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Long, Enough

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte

History, Philosophy, Virtue

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
Charles Bukowski

Love, Human, Possible

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.
Sylvia Plath

Art, Real, Everything

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.
Charles Stanley

Wise, Friend, Person

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini

Nothing, Friends, Chance

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
Aesop

Truth, Two, Before

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.
George W. Bush

Done, President, United

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
Ray Bradbury

God, Forget, Lesson

My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.
Paulo Coelho

Understand, Same, Level

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Victor Hugo

Good, Great, History

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
P. J. O'Rourke

America, Pleased, Founded

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Alan Watts

Night, Wrong, Between

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