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  • Bob Geldof Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Horace Benchley Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.
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  • Stevie Wonder Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.
    Stevie Wonder
    American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer (1950 - )
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrant has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Joseph Wood Krutch Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
    Joseph Wood Krutch
    American writer, critic, and naturalist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Anthony Powell Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
    Anthony Powell
    English novelist (1905 - 2000)
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  • Virginia Woolf Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Bill Janklow Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.
    Bill Janklow
    American politician (1939 - 2012)
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  • Bobby Bowden Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really ever wanted to do.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Betsy Brandt For 'Breaking Bad,' it was like, that's one of the best pilots, probably the best pilot I have ever read.
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn 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.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Edwin Markham For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
    Edwin Markham
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Samuel Butler For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure - tangible material prosperity in this world - is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bob Schieffer For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Bettie Page For years I had my hair parted down the middle in a ponytail, tucked down around the sides... Well, I went and cut the bangs, and I've been wearing them ever since. They say it's my trademark.
    Bettie Page
    American model (1923 - 2008)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Mario Puzo Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the Family.
    Source: The Godfather
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Camille Paglia Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling. Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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