Quotes with stand-off

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  • Bono When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Ben Schnetzer When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Bryan Burrough When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • Bonnie Bedelia Whenever there's heavy-duty emotional work to be done, they call me. As for playing the completely off-the-wall, sexy, gorgeous lady that I am - no, they don't think of me.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Allen Klein Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Billy Sunday Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell. The saloon hasn't one leg to stand on.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Bobby Darin Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Yevgeny Yevtushenko Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
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  • Bill Hicks Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?
    Source: Chicago 91
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Philip Larkin Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bayard Taylor With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Bob Newhart With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than their knowledge of how to tell a joke is their knowledge of themselves, or the persona they've created as themselves. So that when you're in a room with writers, you can say, 'Guys, that's a funny line, but I wouldn't say it.'
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bela Lugosi Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Jean Paul Getty Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Caroline Knapp Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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