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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
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"The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd."

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Alton Brown Chef, Television Personality
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"The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words."

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Alrick Brown Filmmaker
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"My best business decision was becoming a writer as well as a director, and learning all aspects of the filmmaking craft. My worst business decision was licensing music that I don't own."

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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
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"That’s always the hardest thing when someone completely has you fooled so much, that you think they’re just never going to hurt you, then they do. That’s when you get the worst heartbreak."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best."

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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author
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"When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a bad thing for everybody and worst of all for those on whose behalf the control is nominally exercised."

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