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  • Bruce McCulloch To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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  • Carol Moseley Braun To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bertrand Russell Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bobby Fischer Wanted to change the rules already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It's a terrible game now. Very uncreative.
    Radio Interview, October 16 2006 [31]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carl Paladino We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.
    Carl Paladino
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Harold Robbins Haldeman We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
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  • Baba Kalyani We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Woodrow Wyatt We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
    Woodrow Wyatt
    British politician and journalist (1918 - 1997)
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  • Baba Kalyani We have done a lot of work on cost reduction, getting ourselves lean, reducing our breakeven, reducing our fixed cost and increasing exports. All of these factors help because our export basket is not just automotive but also includes industrial products, railways and others.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Brit Hume We need more foreign reach; no question about that. And we're working on getting that. We need more people abroad; we need some more bureaus. That is really an important job.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Bill Shuster We need to enact a strong standard that will stop a terrorist or illegal alien from getting a driver's license because border security is a major concern in a post-September 11th world.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Brit Marling We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Billy Beane We try to create a situation where we're the casino. It's like how an actuary would set insurance rates. Predictability, predictability, predictability. What's the path to least risk? What's the greater chance of getting some return on this asset?
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Ann Veneman We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Brandon Routh Well physically preparing for the role, definitely and then continuing to stay physically fit throughout filming, getting up, 4.00 4.30 in the morning.
    Brandon Routh
    American actor (1979 - )
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  • Anita Hill What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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