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  • Bradley Whitford One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Abraham Pais One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Booker T. Washington Opportunity is like a bald-headed man with only a patch of hair right in front. You have to grab that hair, grasp the opportunity while it's confronting you, else you'll be grasping a slick bald head.
    Speech at the Carrie Tuggle Institute, Birmingham (date unknown) [6]
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Out of the east on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan
    His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man
    He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun and got the drop
    He said, Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not.
    Working On A Dream (2009) Outlaw Pete
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Hunter S. Thompson Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.
    Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2004)
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Maria Mitchell People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
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  • Anthony de Mello People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
    Anthony de Mello
    Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (1931 - 1987)
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  • Henry S. Haskins People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • J. G. Ballard People will begin to explore all the sidestreets of sexual experience, but they will do it intellectually. . . . Sex won't take place in the bed, necessarily--it'll take place in the head!
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Philip Larkin Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Bill Bruford Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • Andrea Dworkin Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Bob Newhart Probably the best advice I ever got in my life was from the head of the accounting department, Mr. Hutchinson, I believe at the Glidden Company in Chicago, and he told me, 'You really aren't cut out for accounting.'
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Hunter S. Thompson Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Jonathan Safran Foer Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2013) 179
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    American novelist (1977 - )
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