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  • Douglas Adams In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Ellen DeGeneres In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
    Ellen DeGeneres
    American comedian, actress, writer, and producer (1958 - )
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  • Camille Paglia In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature. Sex is a subset to nature. Sex is the natural in man.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) Opening sentence, p. 1
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bette Davis In the beginning was the Word,' and you must not be tempted with a script just because you have a great part. You want a great role to play, but the whole - the whole - must be good. It'll never succeed if it's just the role you like.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Billy Corgan In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Beau Willimon In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Bjarke Ingels In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Bobby Scott In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bruce Feirstein In the case of 'Blood Stone,' the producers, EON, Michael Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, David Wilson and Gregg Wilson, had an idea for a story and had a lot of it done. And I came in, worked with them, fleshed it out.
    Bruce Feirstein
    American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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  • Baltasar Kormakur In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Burt Rutan In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Elie Wiesel In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
    Source: Interview Oprah november 2000
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Aldous Huxley In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Aaron Klug In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Ben Hecht In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Leo Rosten In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • Barney Frank In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without inhibiting their basic function, the subprime situation unfortunately provides ammunition for the latter view.
    Source: Frank in an op-ed piece A (sub)prime argument for more regulation in W:Financial Times (August 2007)
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Carol Gilligan In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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