“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
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“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
“The only love affair I have ever had was with music.”
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“I think perspective is a necessary, amazing thing.”
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“I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.”
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“As a little girl in Arizona, none of the women in my family had a cultural connection with Girl Scouts, but the opportunity resonated with my mother as a platform that would allow me to exce...”
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“Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.”
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“Even though I've reached retirement age, I still plan to work - writing my investment newsletter, speaking at conferences, publishing books, and producing conferences like FreedomFest.”
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“We should get a Roomba for our Roomba. I feel bad for it because it works tirelessly, and at night I can hear it cleaning, and I just feel bad for it.”
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“I read part of it all the way through.”
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“Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.”
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“It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).”
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“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”
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“If you clear your mind, you can fill it with your character. If it is cluttered, if it is anxious, if you're thinking about your date, about your dinner, about filling your refrigerator, the...”
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“The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.”
“With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care.”
“Americans have their issues with skin colour, even within the black community, with light and dark skin; it's crazy - but no one's oblivious to it.”
“We're here so that Afghanistan does not once again become a sanctuary for transnational extremists the way it was when al-Qaeda planned the 9/11 attacks in the Kandahar area, conducted the i...”
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“All humans are images of your own self - their pain is your pain - their misery is your misery - their sorrows are your sorrows - so rise and be the hope, help and joy in their lives!”
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“Cremer's 'Nightshade' is a smart blend of romance, action, philosophy, and pagan witchcraft. And, yes, high-schoolers shape-shifting into wolves.”
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“Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.”
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“Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.”
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“I don't give a crap about clowns.”
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“I'm the least metrosexual cat you've ever met. I've never had my fingernails or toenails done, and I've cut my own hair longer than other people have cut my hair.”
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“You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.”
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“I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be ex...”
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“It's weird doing red carpets; it's uncomfortable. But you can have a sense of humor about it.”
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“When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.”
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“Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.”
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“Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.”
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“I like things that don't sound particularly processed or mechanical or made by machines. I like music that contains human elements, with all their flaws. There's air in it, and you can hear...”
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“If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.”
“An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.”
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“Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's asc...”
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“Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching; they'll never be eclips...”
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“With my father, there was one baseball game, one football game, one fishing trip. You got one of everything. And that was all you got. It was enough, though, and I adored him. He was a god t...”
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“In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.”
“To buy a cake... to howl at the moon... to know true happiness... I am happy.”
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“Being a New Yorker and someone that goes to MoMA as a patron, I want it to be good.”
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“I used to watch some of the reality shows about models, and then, weirdly, now I try to incorporate into my fashion shoots the skills I learnt from watching those shows. It's like, thanks Ty...”
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“I'm kind of a germ freak. When I get on a plane, I spray my seat and everything with Lysol Disinfectant Spray.”
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“I've worn makeup for so long, my skin needs it.”
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“Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and lead...”
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“The film 'Black Hawk Down' paints the Somali people as wild savages.”
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“Aishwarya, my parent's daughter, has been brought up with enough values inculcated where I will use my discretion in my choices. At the same time, I recognize I am an actor, I am an artist,...”
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“Why does a heart wear its eyes into hell like slivers of false sunshine”
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“I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.”
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“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
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“Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.”
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