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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley There was no corn - in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales - and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Boyd Holbrook There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I didn't even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn't even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate.
    Boyd Holbrook
    American actor and model
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  • Huey Newton There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
    To Die for the People (2009)
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Bill Bryson There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Brande Roderick There's a reason why Hasselhoff was in a suit for twelve years, and there's a reason why Donald still has his hair that way. I'm tellin' ya. They're both sexy.
    Brande Roderick
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Cassandra Clare There's a stigma that guys hate romance and hate love, but that's not true. Look at 'Iron Man.' There's a whole through-line plot about his relationship with Pepper, and everybody loves it.
    Cassandra Clare
    American author of young adult fiction (1973 - )
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  • Don Delillo There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Bryan Burrough There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told intact; the nonfiction author wants it told accurately.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • Pat Riley There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Jonathan Raban There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence.
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  • Cass Sunstein There's an old adage about speakers: You won't remember what they said, but you'll never forget how they made you feel. Trump knows that in his bones. He gives his supporters - and they are growing - a terrific feeling of safety and security, along with a laugh and a smile.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Samuel Beckett There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Bob Dylan There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.
    Address to the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (13 December 1963)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling 'em behind him as fast as the next man's hoss, I don't care where he comes from. And he can keep at it as long as the sun can shine without resting.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Anthony Hecht There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
    Anthony Hecht
    American poet (1923 - 2004)
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  • Barry McGuire There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Carlisle Floyd There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Agatha Christie There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Walter Benjamin These are days when no one should rely unduly on his ''competence.'' Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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