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  • Jonathan Swift Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Richard Dawkins Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Beau Willimon Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Seneca See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • John Irving Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Dave Barry Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Bob Dylan She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Brantley Gilbert She's definitely an angel sent from above. How can that not rub off on a man? What can I say? I'm a mama's boy.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Bill Watterson Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Calvin Harris Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Bar Refaeli Since I was 8 months old, till I was 12, I did commercials and ads and cute little stuff for kids. Then I had braces on my teeth. They took them off when I was 16, and then I started modeling more seriously and doing more fashion.
    Bar Refaeli
    Israeli model, actress, and entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Alexander Herzen Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bruce Springsteen So they put a rifle in my hand Sent me off to a foreign land To go and kill the yellow man Born in the U.S.A.
    Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • A. A. Milne So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing.
    The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Barbara Boxer So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Billy Bragg So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bob Woodward Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Butch Trucks Sometimes you're gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go again. But sometimes you dive off the cliff and start soaring with the eagles, and that's when you find new music, places that you've never been before.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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