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  • Blake Schwarzenbach Turtle on its back in the desert sea / and you look like a cool drink / just slightly out of reach / Draw myself into the shell / waiting on a sign from God / or a nod from hell
    Source: Orange Rhyming Dictionary (1998) Sea Anemone
    Blake Schwarzenbach
    American musician (1967 - )
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  • Byron Howard Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook, it's so amazing because years ago, when I was growing up and watching movies, there was no way for us to interact with filmmakers at all. You could send a letter, and you'd never know if you were going to hear back or not.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Betty Shabazz Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track.
    Betty Shabazz
    American educator and civil rights advocate (1934 - 1997)
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  • Bobby Fischer Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Bernard Malamud Usually when he forgot words he would wait for them to seep back into consciousness like fish drawn up to the hungry surface of a stream. He would remember the initial letter of the forgotten word or sense sounds in it; soon the word reappeared in an illumination.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Publilius Syrus Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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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.
    Source: Radio Interview, October 16 2006 [31]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Woody Guthrie Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.
    Woody Guthrie
     
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  • Bubba Smith We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.
    Bubba Smith
    American professional football player (1945 - )
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  • Anne Dudley We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Lee Iacocca We at Chrysler borrow money the old fashion way. We pay it back.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • John F. Kennedy We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Bev Perdue We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we can keep moving forward with President Obama's vision for a growing economy that works for middle-class families in North Carolina and all across the country. For me, for North Carolina and for America, it's an easy choice.
    Bev Perdue
    American businesswoman and politician (1947 - )
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  • Herman Melville We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Arthur Hiller We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage.
    Arthur Hiller
    Canadian-American television and film director (1923 - 2016)
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  • Benjamin Whorf We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber We felt we had to know something of his back story. I don't think people in the cinema would just accept that he's there. I think we had to learn how he (got there).
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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