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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My sister can walk down the street and just know what's going on with people. She'll say, 'Oh, they're going through a divorce' or, 'Their kid just went off to college' or, 'He just got a great job.'
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Blair Underwood My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Bruce Dickinson My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Betsy Brandt My son is pre-K and my daughter is in elementary school. So they don't watch the show. But my son knows that I'm on it - he says that 'Breaking Bad' is his favorite show even though he's never seen it. It's really great that he says that, because it makes me look like mother of the year.
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
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  • Bill Rancic My son's going to have a job, and if he wants to get a car when he gets his license, he's going to pay for it on his own like I did.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Brett Hull My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.
    Brett Hull
    Canadian-born American former ice hockey player (1964 - )
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  • Bernard Sahlins My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across the stage, is in the service of advancing a story, and in that sense, it's all writing. In that sense we, while acting, write.
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  • Karl Kraus My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Tom Hanks My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels - we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]
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  • Francis Bacon Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Thomas Szasz Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • W. H. Auden Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Brigham Young Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Carl Van Doren Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely taking thought about it. He is what he lives. The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts Into his work. The measure of the critic is the amount of life he finds there.
    The Roving Critic (1923)
    Carl Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1950)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Ariel Sharon Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.
    Ariel Sharon
    Israeli general and politician (1928 - 2014)
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