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2021-0621
1900s | 2000s | American | Artist | b. 1957 | Cartoonist | creativity | mistakes | persistence | resilience

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

This quotation is one of those which is frequently misattributed to a few people—or subtly misquoted. I’ve never had the pleasure of reading any of his books, but the crowd‐sourced internet seems to confirm Mr. Adams as coining the phrase from his first book, The Dilbert Principle1.

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  1. Adams, Scott. The Dilbert Principle. HarperCollins, 1997. ↩

2022-1022
1900s · 2000s · American · Hip Hop · Musician · R&B · Soul

Do doh da dada tay

Erykah Badu
Nobody compares to Erykah Badu—she is and always has been, O‑riginal, timeless, and superduperfresh. ***
2022-1020
1800s · American · Author · biography · writing

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Mark Twain
Found it here. ***
2022-1016
1900s · 2000s · Actor · American · funny · Midland Texas · sick burn bruh

Can I finish what I wanna say? I don’t wanna interupt your interruption, dude. Are those ears strickly ornamental or do ever use them?

Woody Harrelson
So many odd and interesting things with Bill Maher sitting down with Woody Harrelson, smoking and drinking with the tape rolling. I really don’t know too much about either one of these dudes—least of …
2022-1004
1900s · 2000s · American · Butcher Hollow KY · love · lyrics · Singer

Well, I was born a coal miner’s daughter / In a cabin, on a hill in Butcher Holler / We were poor but we had love / That’s the one thing that daddy made sure of

Loretta Lynn
When I was a boy, our family would visit my Grandma in South Boston, Virginia—usually for a week in the summer or a long Thanksgiving weekend. She was tall and loud with a head full of greying, fiery red …
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