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"I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe."
"The next time someone starts listing all the reasons an idea won't work or can't happen, ask them to give 3 reasons it can."
"What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years."
"My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple."
"And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween."
"Sometimes the shadow stays next to the Light. Sometimes it disappears into the Light"
"Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?' Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married."
"We are so excited for what's next. I think that's what I love most about it, the energy and the excitement that comes from that."
"My life is based on change. What I say is OK for the next ten minutes, then I change my mind."
"Evolution is the secret for the next step."
"I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady."
"You gotta be a good sport! So when I would lose, I would say, "That guy was better than I was; what do I have to do to be better next time?""
"There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next."
"Maybe next time, but probably not."
"Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice."
"My closet was full, yet I was always focused on the sweater I didn't have, or on the next pair of boots. I wasn't allowing myself to take in what I had. I could never experience what "enough" was."
"Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty."
"One listless day followed another, with nothing to distinguish one from the next. You could have changed the order and no one would have noticed."
"I've never went into the studio looking for a certain direction for my next production. I make music that I enjoy and whatever flows in my head when I'm in the studio is how the track is going to turn out."
"Taste is the next gift to genius."
