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  • Bob Filner These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Derek Jarman These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word ''queer'' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.
    Derek Jarman
    British movie maker, artist, writer (1942 - 1994)
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  • Bill Goldberg They don't pay me enough to take any racial abuse. If you come up to me and say something racially, I'm going to take your head off.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Laurence Binyen They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.
    Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
    At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
    We shall remember them.
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  • Afrika Bambaataa They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Bill Gates This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Doris Lessing This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we -we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Vauvenargues To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Joe Namath To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
    Joe Namath
    American football quarterback and actor (1943 - )
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Adam Arkin To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Samuel Butler To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bruce Catton To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Barry Humphries To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Bobby Vinton To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Benny Goodman To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • Bill Nye To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Barney Frank Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Beth Grant Tone is so important because you can have a great script just be ruined with the wrong director - if they shtick it up or something. With 'Little Miss Sunshine,' I was so concerned they weren't going to play the pageant official realistically because you don't have to wink to play those kinds of characters.
    Beth Grant
    American actress (1949 - )
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