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  • Bono Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Richard Dawkins Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Carl Lewis Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Cameron Diaz Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.
    Cameron Diaz
    American actress, author, producer, and model (1972 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Jim Crace Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.
    Harvest (2013) 20
    Jim Crace
    English writer and novelist (1946 - )
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  • Les Brown See yourself confronting your fears in your mind's eye and handling those fears like a champ.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Seems sick an' it's hungry, it's tired an' it's torn, it looks like it's a-dyin' an' it's hardly been born.
    Bob Dylan (1962)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ralph J. Cudworth Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
    Ralph J. Cudworth
    English clergyman
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  • John H. Aughey Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.
    John H. Aughey
    American clergyman and writer (1828 - 1911)
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  • Walter Benjamin Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Bryan Greenberg Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a different lifestyle and writing a song about it. Likewise, my acting inspires the music because I can write a theme that I wouldn't necessarily approach at all in life.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Charles Pierce Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
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  • John Updike Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Anita Diamant Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Frank McCourt Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.
    Frank McCourt
    Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer (1930 - 2009)
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  • Norman Douglas Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • A. A. Milne Shall I look too? said Pooh, who was beginning to feel a little eleven o'clockish. And he found a small tin of condensed milk, and something seemed to tell him that Tiggers didn't like this, so he took it into a corner by itself, and went with it to see that nobody interrupted it.
    The House at Pooh Corner (1928) Ch. 2
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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