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“Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else”
Judy Garland
“A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends”
Cyril Connolly
“The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1.”
Craig Bruce
“Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.”
The Princess Bride
“Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence”
Charles Darwin
“If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.”
William S. Burroughs
“Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.”
Norman R. Augustine
“The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate”
Christopher Fry
“There's definitely a trashy, x-rated vibe to our live set. It's mainly to put off homophobes, but also because as seriously as you take this, you can't take yourself that seriously. so it's like aggressive, softcore gay porn. there's a little man love, maybe some smooching, definitely some crotch grabbing. I definitely used to f*ck the monitors.”
Gerard Way
“A hack writer who would not have been considered a fourth rate in Europe, who tricked out a few of the old proven "sure-fire" literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.”
William Faulkner
