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• The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen.

  Neil Gaiman

  Giving, Scared, I Can

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66)

  David Levithan

  Mom, Giving, Goldfish

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• Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Reading, Ignorance

  Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

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• My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out. By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games. But the dropping out has to occur internally before it can occur externally. I'm not telling kids just to quit school; I'm not telling people to quit their jobs. That is an inevitable development of the process of turning on and tuning in.

  Timothy Leary

  Jobs, School, Mean

  Timothy Leary (1968). “The Politics of Ecstasy”

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• My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests. Writing books begins in talking about it, like most human projects, and in being close to those who have already done what you propose to do.

  Walter Kirn

  Dream, New York, Book

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• One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange.

  Haruki Murakami

  People, World, May

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• What is the best advice, business or otherwise, you've had and from whom?
  The best advice I've received came many years ago from my father.  He told me that you should love whatever work you do, you should try to find something you truly enjoy.  And I've been lucky through the years that the work I've been involved with has been challenging and for the most part, fun.

  Paul Allen

  Fun, Father, Years

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• The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?

  John Green

  Being Yourself, Mean, Boys

  YouTube Chanel "vlogbrothers" / "How to Make Guys Like You", www.youtube.com. February 24, 2009.

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• If I was going to give Matt (Kenseth) a piece of advice, I'd say use the s- out of him. Every time you get, run him hard, because that's his weakness.

  Brad Keselowski

  Running, Giving, Weakness

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• Stupid people always ignored good advice

  Johanna Lindsey

  Stupid, People, Ignored

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• I leave for the guidance of other revolutionaries, who may tread the path which I have trod, this advice; never treat with the enemy, never to surrender to his mercy, but to fight to a finish.

  Eamonn Ceannt

  Fighting, Enemy, Unbroken

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• A word of advice, Will Henry. When a person of the female gender says she wants to show you something, run the other way. The odds are it is not something you wish to see.

  Rick Yancey

  Running, Odds, Wish

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Curse of the Wendigo”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

  Diahann Carroll

  Kings, Profound, Mentor

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• The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

  Haley Joel Osment

  Dad, Believe, Character

  "Haley Joel Osment: What I've Learned" by Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway

  Jenny Holzer

  Enjoy, Can't Change, Enjoy Yourself

  Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”

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• Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

  Antisthenes

  Inspirational, Life, Enemy

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius,

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• Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Birthday, People, Giving

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• If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else.

  Richard Adams

  Rabbits, Accepted, Ifs

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.302, Oneworld Publications

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• It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Evil, Way, Affair

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.17, Modern Library

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• Go not to the Elves for counsel,
  for they will say both no and yes.
  Elves seldom give unguarded advice,
  for advice is a dangerous gift,
  even from the wise to the wise,
  and all courses may run ill.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wise, Running, Giving

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As president, my goal in Afghanistan will be to complete a successful transition to Afghan security forces by the end of 2014. I will evaluate conditions on the ground and solicit the best advice of our military commanders. And I will affirm that my duty is not to my political prospects, but to the security of the nation.

  Mitt Romney

  Military, Successful, Goal

  Remarks at the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Reno, Nevada, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 24, 2012.

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• It doesn't look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary dietary advice. And then we hear that she's out eating ribs at 1500 calories a serving with 141 grams of fat ... No, I'm trying to say that our first lady does not project the image of women that you might see on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue or of a woman Alex Rodriguez might date every six months or what have you.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sports, Stupid, Issues

  "Does Rush Limbaugh's Criticism Of First Lady Cross The Line?". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 24, 2011.

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• By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Animal, Men

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.221, Penguin

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• My mother always told me,”hide your face- people are looking at you”. I would reply,”It does not matter; I am also looking at them.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Life, Mother, Work

  Malala Yousafzai (2013). “I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have read it, I would be hard pressed to decide what I enjoyed more: the richly and ominously magical world of Malaz and Genabackis; the large cast of sympathetically-rendered characters; or the way the story accumulates to a climax that hits like machinegun fire. My advice to anyone who might listen to me is, Treat yourself to Gardens of the Moon. And my entirely selfish advice to Steven Erikson is, write faster.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Selfish, Writing, Character

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