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  • Branford Marsalis We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Don DeLillo We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.
    White Noise (2011) 32
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Alan Bennett We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Brene Brown We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Bobby Wallace We were in Philadelphia when Manager Pat shifted me from third to short, and right off the bat, I knew I had found my dish. Footwork was more a part of the new position than it had been at third. I suddenly felt I had sprouted wings. A world of new possibilities opened for me.
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  • Alan Bennett We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • E. M. Cioran We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Bing Crosby We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.
    Bing Crosby
    American singer, comedian and actor (1903 - 1977)
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  • Cate Campbell We've seen, time and again, when people focus on the outcome rather than what needs to be done to achieve a desirable result, then the wheels fall off.
    Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • Brad Bird Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • A. E. van Vogt Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Bubba Smith Well, I'm not a violent person. You have to back off. People sometimes will try you and try you until you try not to, but you have to react. Normally, I just walk away.
    Bubba Smith
    American professional football player (1945 - )
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  • O. Henry What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • David Malouf What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.
    An Imaginary Life
    David Malouf
    Australian writer (1934 - )
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  • Bob Parsons What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.
    Bob Parsons
    American entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist (1950 - )
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  • Bill Rancic What I think a lot of great marathon runners do is envision crossing that finish line. Visualization is critical. But for me, I set a lot of little goals along the way to get my mind off that overwhelming goal of 26.2 miles. I know I've got to get to 5, and 12, and 16, and then I celebrate those little victories along the way.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Brad Sherman What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Anthony Holden What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • C. S. Lewis What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
    Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1963)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Jordan What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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