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Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

—Katharine Hepburn

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.

—George Ade

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

—Samuel McChord Crothers

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

—Mark Twain

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

—Sydney J. Harris

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

—Vincent Van Gogh

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

—Charles Kettering

We must return to nature and nature's god.

—Luther Burbank

A forest bird never wants a cage.

—Henrik Ibsen

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

—Robert Quillen

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

—Pablo Picasso

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

—Johnny Carson

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

—Samuel Goldwyn