“The brutalities of a fight with bare hands, the crushed nasal bones, maimed lips, and other disfigurements, which call for the utter abolition of boxing in the interests of humanity, at once...”
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“The brutalities of a fight with bare hands, the crushed nasal bones, maimed lips, and other disfigurements, which call for the utter abolition of boxing in the interests of humanity, at once...”
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“I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.”
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“Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.”
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“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
“I started crying because this would all disappear including me and no one seemed to realise it. Did no one feel what I was feeling.”
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“People go tanning because they like to feel tan. You feel more sexy when you're tan and I don't understand why you would tax on that, because you're making yourself feel more happy about you...”
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“I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.”
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“Sometimes when we think it's the end of the road Is when we learn to fly”
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“Time stands still when purpose and passion are [the] present.”
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“Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.”
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“My parents both defected from communist Hungary and were what most people would today call libertarian. I grew up with a general distaste for taxation and any policy that intruded on our liv...”
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“Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two worlds didn't mix. When I brought my guitar back to school after Thanksgiving break, a...”
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“There aren't any real dumb people in my voices. It's always irritated me about Hollywood dialogue - there's so much dialogue that would just bore a Ford mechanic. This is not how people talk...”
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“When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.”
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“When you desire anything that is not from the human spirit; it is called lust”
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“It's not really a popular consensus to sing Sinatra - which I love! And I just think it's so cool that he disliked rock n' roll so much.”
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“There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.”
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“I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.”
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“We continue to hope that a way can be found for Benchmark to move forward, having profited so handsomely from the work of Travis Kalanick and many others, and to do so without inflicting gra...”
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“There are three sportsmen: Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, and Lionel Messi. They perform with excellence, like most of us could never dream of.”
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“2017 saw a slew of big pop and hip-hop records, a number of breakout female singer-songwriters and all-girl bands, and the return of beloved '60s soul artist Don Bryant and pop star Kesha.”
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“Scaling is multidimensional. Different methods address different things.”
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“There is no perfect circle, there is not a perfectly straight line”
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“Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contrad...”
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“I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.”
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“I love Rome for their calzones and New York City for the variety of quality eateries, but I absolutely fell in love with Miami for the stone crabs at Joe's just off Ocean Drive - the best I'...”
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“I can say that I put a lot of personal feelings into 'Hereditary', though I can also say that none of the characters in the film are surrogates for anybody in my family or for myself.”
“My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate.”
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“Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy-it won't come out while you're watching.”
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“'The Walking Dead' is an extraordinary thing.”
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“Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.”
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“Nudge threw her arms around my neck. 'I love you Max! I love all of us too!' Yeah, me too,' Said the Gasman. 'I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is...”
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“I was born in Dortmund and grew up here, so you become automatically a black and yellow. I played here for many years in the youth ranks, but at first I did not have the chance to become a p...”
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“I think 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' have definitely staked out their own style and territory, and now the accusations are coming that 'The Simpsons' is taking jokes from 'Family Guy.' An...”
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“The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.”
“President Barack Obama talks about the need to 'invest' in alternative energy sources. But the reality is that he is not investing his money - he's spending yours.”
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“I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have histories and thoughts and yearnings and hurts and misgivings and pleasu...”
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“Adequacy is sufficient.”
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“Billy Graham isn't about politics - Billy Graham is about God.”
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“It's a great thing about being pregnant - you don't need excuses to pee or to eat.”
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“When I did 'Good Guys Wear Black,' I had a lot of dialogue in that movie.”
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“It is my conviction that those who disregard the reality of Heaven will ultimately find themselves on the wrong side of history.”
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“Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reas...”
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“I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.”
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“Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.”
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“In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long...”
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“I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and...”
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“What the point of crying over the things you don't have. Be patience and make the best of what you have. In TIME, great things will come.”
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