"These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again."

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"These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again."

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Will Rogers, American Actor

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Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"You can stroke people with words."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

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"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."

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