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  • Ben Brantley The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews.
    Ben Brantley
    American theater critic and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Burn Gorman The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight! The terrible twos are not a myth, but he's such a laugh to be around.
    Burn Gorman
    British actor and musician (1974 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Billy Boyd The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.
    Billy Boyd
    Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
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  • Antonia Fraser The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Algernon Sydney The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Arthur J. Goldberg The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.
    Arthur J. Goldberg
    American jurist and politician
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  • Joseph Conrad The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made law is secondary and subordinate to the law that is made by legislators.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Gertrude Stein The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Britney Spears The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bridgit Mendler The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.
    Bridgit Mendler
    American actress, singer, and songwriter (1992 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John F. Kennedy The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Anthony Burgess The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Armstrong Williams The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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