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  • Barack Obama Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Art Buchwald Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Beatrix Potter Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Alan Parsons That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Bob Edwards That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Beth Henley That's what I like about [smoking]... taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Butch Trucks The Allman Brothers 1969 to 1971... were all about... jumping off the cliff... Just taking music and being adventurous with it.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Andrew Carnegie The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Bunker Roy The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the story behind the college.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Brene Brown The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Ben Parr The big reason why we don't have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain 'hard.' The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Bridgit Mendler The biggest klutz would be myself, so if I could offer help to myself I would. I'm the most off my game most often.
    Bridgit Mendler
    American actress, singer, and songwriter (1992 - )
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  • Bob Uecker The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Ernst Fischer The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
    Ernst Fischer
    Austrian journalist, writer and politician (1899 - 1972)
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  • Raymond Chandler The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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