The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Tom Bodett

You can make a new friend but you can’t make an old one.
Tom Bodett

In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Tom Bodett

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
Tom Bodett

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
Tom Bodett

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Otis Blackwell

January 27, 2012

I like this town, it’s really great. They’ve put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It’s about the kind of music I like. Otis Blackwell I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever [...]

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Kurtis Blow

January 27, 2012

When I was 13 I had a fake Id that said that I was 19. I was getting in all the clubs. Kurtis Blow Yeah when I was 7 or 8 my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music. Kurtis Blow I was signed when I was 19 years old, in [...]

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Elizabeth Blackwell

January 27, 2012

It is not easy to be a pioneer – but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world. Elizabeth Blackwell Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development. Elizabeth Blackwell The idea of winning a doctor’s degree [...]

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Bernardo Bertolucci

January 27, 2012

I don’t think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks. Bernardo Bertolucci I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is. Bernardo Bertolucci A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy. Bernardo Bertolucci I am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject [...]

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Sissela Bok

January 27, 2012

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect. Sissela Bok Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived. [...]

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Nellie Bly

January 27, 2012

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly – a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God’s creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly. Nellie Bly All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one’s mind. After several months’ confinement the [...]

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James W. Black

January 27, 2012

In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions. James W. Black During my six years with them Dr Garnet Davey (subsequently Research Director) constantly supported me and, I have no doubt, fought many battles on [...]

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Dan Blocker

January 27, 2012

My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon – no good for a damn thing. Dan Blocker

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Alan Bleasdale

January 27, 2012

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger. Alan Bleasdale To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. Alan Bleasdale If you can [...]

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Jane Birkin

January 22, 2012

When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn’t bear it any more. Jane Birkin Any film I see at two o’clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that [...]

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Harold Stephen Black

January 22, 2012

Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly. Harold Stephen Black The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry. Harold Stephen Black  

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