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  • Caroline Knapp These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Colley Cibber Thou strange piece of wild nature!
    Colley Cibber
    English actor-manager, playwright and poet (1671 - 1757)
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  • Philip Roth To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Bill Sienkiewicz To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach.
    Bill Sienkiewicz
    American artist (1958 - )
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  • David Copperfield Usually, about two years of work go into each illusion, whether it's big or small. Two years of work on each five-minute piece.
    David Copperfield
    American magician (1956 - )
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  • Alfred Marshall We might as reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by utility or cost of production.
    Principles of Economics (1920) Book V, Ch. III
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall We might as reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by utility or cost of production.
    Principles of Economics (1920) Book V, Ch. III
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  • Bille August We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter.
    Bille August
    Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (1948 - )
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  • Ali Smith We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
    (2012)
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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  • Billy Beane We've got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us be accurate with our player evaluation. For us, that's our life blood.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • William Shakespeare What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god - the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Leonard Cohen What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Bernie Sanders What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Al Goldstein When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Caitlin Moran When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Ben E. King When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Rose Tremain When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.
    Rose Tremain
    English author, chancellor of the University of East Anglia (1943 - )
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  • Basil Bunting Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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