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  • Ann Macbeth Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Bipasha Basu Films with female protagonists don't attract many eyeballs. Most of them are perceived as feminist films. If Bollywood starts giving women major roles in entertaining movies, then the audience, too, will open up to the idea of watching commercial films in which the actresses do more than just play the role of the hero's love interest.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Harry Houdini Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.
    Harry Houdini
    Hungarian-born American illusionist (1874 - 1926)
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  • Bill Simmons Five days after the Tsarnaev brothers blew up Boston's most sacred event, and just 24 hours after one brother was killed and the other was caught, everyone decided that it was OK to play baseball at Fenway again. The game happened on a Saturday afternoon, preceded by an emotional ceremony and many prayers.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Dale Carnegie Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Bert Lance Folks are serious about three things: Their religion, their family and, most of all, their money.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • David Mitchell Folks with most to complain about seldom complain most.
    Ghostwritten (2017) 350
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Queen Victoria For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Andrew Morton For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy.
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  • Blaise Pascal For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
    Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Annie Besant For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
    Annie Besant
    British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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  • William Shakespeare For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Boethius For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
    De Consolatione Philosophia Book 2, prose 4
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Busta Rhymes For me the best thing about winning an award is when the people cheer for your win. When you can see that the people are really happy that you are winning something, that's the most reward thing in the world.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Bo Burnham For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Magnus Carlsen For me, the most important thing is to continue to play well and to be a positive figure and hopefully a role model for kids as well.
    Magnus Carlsen
    Norwegian chess grandmaster (1990 - )
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  • Billy Collins For most Americans, poetry plays no role in their everyday lives. But also for most Americans, contemporary painting or jazz or sculpture play no role either. I'm not saying poetry is singled out as a special thing to ignore.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Cliff Fadiman For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
    Cliff Fadiman
    American writer
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  • Samuel Butler For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure - tangible material prosperity in this world - is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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