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  • Blair Underwood It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Carolyn McCarthy It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.
    Carolyn McCarthy
    American nurse and politician (1944 - )
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  • Adam Sandler It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Barbara Amiel It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Bode Miller It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Henry Miller It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Adolf Loos It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Alva Myrdal It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Samuel Butler It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • John Ruskin It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Elbert Hubbard It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Billy Idol It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.
    Billy Idol
    English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor (1955 - )
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  • Bill Hader It doesn't occur to me that I don't drive a cool car until I hang out with Jon Hamm, who picks me up in what looks like a Transformer, and I think, 'Oh, that's what movie stars are driving. I guess I'm not a movie star.'
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Michael Ondaatje It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Ben Casnocha It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.
    Ben Casnocha
    American author, entrepreneur, and investor (1988 - )
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  • Edward Gibbon It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Agnetha Faltskog It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!.
    Agnetha Faltskog
    Swedish singer, songwriter and actress (1950 - )
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  • Charles Darwin It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • C.E.M. Joad It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.
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