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  • Quentin Crisp If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • James Agee If music be the breakfast food of love, kindly do not disturb until lunch time.
    Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Movies (1958)
    James Agee
    American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic (1909 - 1955)
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  • Raymond Chandler If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Bobby Flay If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Benigno Aquino III If my father Ninoy Aquino were alive today, he would say that he is not superman or superboy. In effect, heroes are really just ordinary people caught up in extraordinary times and respond properly.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Malcolm X If not now then when, if not me then who?
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Al Sharpton If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Aldous Huxley If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Brigitte Bardot If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Albert Camus If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Ben Elton If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Audre Lorde If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 142
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Abigail Adams If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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