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  • Bud Grant 'Monday Night Football' has the good and the bad points. The bad point is you have to wait around all day, and it disrupts your schedule for the next week. Now you have one less day to prepare for the following week.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch 'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back catalogue and got what I've done, why and how I've done it. There is some obsessive behaviour, but I worry for them rather than me.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Bryan Greenberg 'The Good Guy' is a totally differently-looking New York than 'How To Make It' portrays. 'The Good Guy' is all about Wall Street and that culture, which 'How To Make It' touches on, but 'How To Make It' also is downtown, Lower East Side loft parties, cool clubs, Brooklyn and that world.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • B. J. Novak 'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
    B. J. Novak
    American actor, writer, comedian, and director (1979 - )
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson 'Tis better to have loved and lost
    than never to have loved at all.
    In Memoriam A. H. H.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Alexander Cockburn A ''just war'' is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A ''No'' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ''Yes'' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Iris Murdoch A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Adrian Smith A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.
    Adrian Smith
    English guitarist and pianist (1957 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bradley Denton A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.
    Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991)
    Bradley Denton
    American science fiction author (1958 - )
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  • Robert Burton A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Barbara Holland A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
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  • Alice Duer Miller A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • Jules Renard A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman A concept is stronger than a fact.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer and poet (1860 - 1935)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Henry Waldorf Francis A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.
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  • Thomas Jefferson A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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