knoted82 favourite quotes

Here are my favourite quotes and thoughts:

"A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say." -- Michael Winner, British film director

"You have to have a talent for having talent." -- Ruth Gordon

"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray." -- Oscar Wilde

"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me." -- Woody Allen, Annie Hall

"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace." -- Amelia Earhart

"How could I lose to such an idiot?" -- Aaron Nimzovich, A shout from the chess grandmaster

"One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious." -- Chateaubriand

"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open." -- Unknown

"The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around." -- Herb Caen

"Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress." -- Quentin Crisp

"The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire

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