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Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
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For 'Blue Jasmine,' I made a decision not to wear any make up in the last shot of the film, as I felt like she had such a mask on - I thought it would be a good idea to leave her with nothing and become completely transparent.
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For 'Breaking Bad,' it was like, that's one of the best pilots, probably the best pilot I have ever read.
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For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no régime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, I don't have anything left.' But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like, 'Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.'
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For a man there are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and women. It is often difficult to say which is the worst.
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For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.
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For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy.
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
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For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
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For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.
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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
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For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.
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For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth
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For like as herbs and trees bringing forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds.
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