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  • Betsey Johnson In the 60's there was a look. In the 70's there was a look, and in the 80's. Now, it's a free-for-all.
    Betsey Johnson
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Lionel Trilling In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • George Bernard Shaw In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Leo Rosten In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • Bruce Springsteen In the day we sweat it out in the streets Of a runaway American dream At night we ride through mansions of Glory in suicide machines.
    Source: Born to Run (1974)
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Caitlin Moran In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Rohinton Mistry In the end, it’s all a question of balance.
    Source: Een wankel evenwicht (2010) 328
    Rohinton Mistry
    Indian-born Canadian writer (1952 - )
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  • Carrie Fisher In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • John Maynard Keynes In the long run we are all dead.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • John Maynard Keynes In the long run, we are all dead.
    Source: A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923) Ch.3
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Angela Carter In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Abigail Adams In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.
    Source: Letter to John Adams, 31 March 1776
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Robert Bresson In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • Bruce Forsyth In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure - we all had nights when we 'died' on stage - but today's youngsters simply don't have that experience. For them, it really is instant make or break time - hence, all the tears and, hence, all the potential emotional damage.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Benjamin Watson In the same way that I cannot be perfect and need grace for my mistakes, I also need to give my kids grace. I am constantly learning to be patient with them, understanding that they won't do everything right all the time, while still holding them to a high standard, as their heavenly father does.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron In the U.S., it would be so much better if the studios made many more smaller films for niche markets rather than a few tent pole films that swamp cinemas and Hoover up all the funding.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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