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  • Bubba Smith Well, everybody knew their character. I was the only one who didn't have a partner. I basically showed up when people got in trouble. Where I came from, I don't know. Nobody knows. But I would show up to help.
    Bubba Smith
    American professional football player (1945 - )
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  • Adam Brody Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.
    Adam Brody
    American actor, writer, musician, and producer (1979 - )
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  • Arthur Hugh Clough Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition?
    Arthur Hugh Clough
    English poet (1819 - 1861)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Assata Shakur We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 167
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
    Jungle of Cities
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Joseph Conrad What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Archibald Macleish What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Ben Affleck What happens is this sort of bleed-over from the tabloids across your movie work. You go to a movie, you only go once. But the tabloids and Internet are everywhere. You can really subsume the public image of somebody.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bernard Levin What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
    Bernard Levin
    English journalist, author and broadcaster (1928 - 2004)
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  • Carlos Fuentes What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Carl Sagan What I'm saying is, if God wanted to send us a message, and ancient writings were the only way he could think of doing it, he could have done a better job.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 10
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Woody Allen What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Salvador Dali What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdad's of his dreams to rise from the dust.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Natasha Josefowitz What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes.
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