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  • Alexander Pope How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Agnes Repplier Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Albert J. Nock I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Philip Roth I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere!
    Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Francois-Auguste Rodin I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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  • Auguste Rodin I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • Joan Didion I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.
    Faceboek (2011)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I created a fitness club with five friends. We have weekly check-ins and a reward system - and group penalties if one of us slacks off.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Alex Trebek I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
    Alex Trebek
    Canadian-American television personality and actor (1940 - )
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  • Bubba Smith I don't go to clubs and stuff like that, so I don't have to put up with it in there. And normally, because obviously I could hurt somebody, and if I look at it that way, I have to back off.
    Bubba Smith
    American professional football player (1945 - )
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  • Clare Boothe Luce I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Busy Philipps I find it to be strange that people get obsessed about how fast actresses and celebrities are taking off their baby weight. I guess people like to look to them and feel better about themselves or feel worse about themselves.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • John Cleese I got off lightly. Think what I’d have had to pay Alyce if she had contributed anything to the relationship - such as children, or a conversation.
    John Cleese
    English actor, comedian and producer (1939 - )
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  • Ace Frehley I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus - I just looked different and acted different, so I left school.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth I hate the term 'arm candy.' But, look, a woman's figure is a beautiful thing, and if she has shapely legs, then she should show them off, because men love to see that. Not just heterosexual men - gay men like to see a woman in her beauty and the shape of her.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Beck I have a fear of heights, so falling off something very tall. But I've conquered a good amount of my fears. I guess most people would have the fear of getting up in front of a large audience of people and making a fool of themselves. I've gotten over that.
    On the Couch, NME
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Jimi Celeste I have a great dog. She's half Labrador, half pit bull. It's a good combination. Sure, she might bite off my leg, but she'll bring it back to me.
    Jimi Celeste
    American photographer and humorist
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  • Ezra Pound I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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