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Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was th

Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. – Joseph Heller

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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. – Joseph Heller

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Destiny is a good thing to accept when its going your way. When it isnt, dont call it destiny call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck. – Joseph Heller

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Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. – William Penn

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The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same). – David Mamet

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Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper. – Gerald Early

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Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. – Wilson Mizner

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If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves. – Jonathan Sacks

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It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And its getting to the point now where its like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when Im done. – Picabo Street

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Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like Ive succeeded, if Im doing something that makes me happy and Im not lying to anybody. Im not doing that now, so I feel really good about myself. – Kristen Stewart

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