"You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail."
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"A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, 'Oh, I don't like it.' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin."
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"If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful."
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"What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound."
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"Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth."
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"No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love."
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"You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?"
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"Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed."
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"My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure. When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive--I'll find love again."
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"If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do. If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed. No task is too menial."
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"Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth"
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"If you can't live it down, might as well live it up."
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"I might not win a Grammy or get another Stellar Award but I'll get my rewards from the Lord. There's nothing better than that."
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"Do not expect justice where might is right."
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"I don't have any bad habits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me."
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"Best way to sell something: don't sell anything. Earn the awareness, respect and trust of those who might buy."
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"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God."
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"Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God. What then was the commencement of the whole matter? Existence that multiplied itself for sheer delight of being and plunged into numberless trillions of forms so that it might find itself innumerably."
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"It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film."
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"Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great insufficiency that drives him on. The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than it is in the picture. The process is in fact habit-forming."
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