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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
Advice

"Stotting is jumping upward with all four legs simultaneously. My advice: do not die until you've seen a large black poodle stotting in the snow."

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
Advice

"I don't really have any advice, other than to say it's the most appallingly difficult thing I've ever tried to do and I wish I had a better idea of how to do it. In my experience what you end up with is the by-product of your failure to achieve what you set out to do. It may turn out OK, but it wasn't what you meant and you've no idea how you got there."

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
Advice

"It's been a moment since I've done some public speaking. I find now-a-days it's best to keep quiet."

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Cheryl Strayed Author, Memoirist
Advice

"Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't."

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Cheryl Strayed Author, Memoirist
Advice

"My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure."

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
Advice

"It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it's - don't. I'm going to send out for some fried chicken."

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Bill Murray Actor, Comedian
Advice

"Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you."

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Angie Stone Singer
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"My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice."

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
Advice

"I'm telling you, if you want to have good advice, never pay any attention to the camera guys because they will tell you over and over something is wrong and let's reshoot it, let's do this and let's do that. Hey, just do it."

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