I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force. - John Cleese

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In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

John Cleese

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

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I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.

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I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.

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Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness.

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Always start where the energy is.

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Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

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Shane Meadows

If you look back on the period, the 1980s has never been seen as cool. You think of the music, and it always has a kitsch quality to it because everyone looks so ridiculous. Even the Nineties, with The Stone Roses and other bands, was cool before the Eighties. It really missed the boat! The Sixties was always cool, even then. That was my Dad's era and I was always jealous of that. But now, as an adult, looking back, we were part of this mental time. It was the most enormous amount of tribes that could have ever existed in one place.

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Daniel Levitin

When a language advances and adds a third term to its lexicon for color, the third term is always red.

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David Ricardo

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

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Patrick Rothfuss

Now the truth is, writing is a great way to deal with a lot of difficult emotional issues. It can be very therapeutic, but that's best done in your journal, or on your blog if you're an exhibitionist. Trying to put a bunch of *specific* stuff from your personal life into your story usually just isn't appropriate unless you're writing a memoir or a personal essay or something of the sort.

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Billy Rose

Me and my shadow Strolling down the avenue Oh, me and my shadow Not a soul to tell our troubles to And when it's twelve o'clock we climb the stairs We never knock 'cause nobody's there Just me and my shadow All alone and feeling blue

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