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Rosabeth Moss Kanter: To stay ahead,...

Rosabeth Moss Kanter: To stay ahead,...

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

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Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Too many people...

Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Too many people...

Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.

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Elizabeth Arden: Nothing that costs...

Elizabeth Arden: Nothing that costs...

Nothing that costs only a dollar is worth having.

Source: In In Cosmetics the Old...

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Faith Popcorn: The future bears...

Faith Popcorn: The future bears...

The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.

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Susan RoAne: They say, You...

Susan RoAne: They say, You...

They say, You can't give a smile away; it always comes back. The same is true of a kind word or a conversation...

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Judith Jamison: I believe that...

Judith Jamison: I believe that...

I believe that this world was set about for us to enjoy and to love and to experience and to have it all be, to a...

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Drew Barrymore: God made a...

Drew Barrymore: God made a...

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs...

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Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood is a...

Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood is a...

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a 1000 dollars for a kiss and 50 cents for your...

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Ava Gardner: After my screen...

Ava Gardner: After my screen...

After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled, She can't talk! She can't act! She's...

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Marie Dressler: In order to...

Marie Dressler: In order to...

In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves.

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Claudette Colbert: Why do grandparents...

Claudette Colbert: Why do grandparents...

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the...

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Zora Neale Hurston: Research is formalized...

Zora Neale Hurston: Research is formalized...

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

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Zora Neale Hurston: There are years...

Zora Neale Hurston: There are years...

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

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Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

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Tallulah Bankhead: Cocaine habit-forming?...

Tallulah Bankhead: Cocaine habit-forming?...

Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years.

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Sarah Bernhardt: To be a...

Sarah Bernhardt: To be a...

To be a good actor . . . it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each...

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Lily Tomlin: The best mind-altering...

Lily Tomlin: The best mind-altering...

The best mind-altering drug is truth.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Sophie Tucker: I've been rich...

Sophie Tucker: I've been rich...

I've been rich and I've been poor; Believe me, honey, rich is better.

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Imelda Marcos: I did not...

Imelda Marcos: I did not...

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: There are two...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: There are two...

There are two kinds of women: those who want power in the world, and those who want power in...

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