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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Brene Brown In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Brad Holland In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Boris Spassky In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Bob Graham In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield In my opinion, parsons are very like other men, neither the better nor the worse for wearing a black gown.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bill Dedman In New York, FEMA granted the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club's request to be remapped from the high-risk flood zone in August 2012 - just two months before the club was damaged and its outbuildings destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, which stacked up yachts at its docks like pick-up sticks.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Anne Boyd In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity.
    Anne Boyd
    Australian composer
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  • Nancy Astor In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
    Nancy Astor
    First woman Member of Parliament (1879 - 1964)
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  • Beau Willimon In politics, it's very theatrical. There's a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Bill Gross In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Adam Mickiewicz In spring's own country, where the gardens blow,
    You faded, tender rose! For hours now past,
    Like butterflies departing, on you're cast
    The worms of memories to work you woe.
    Crimean Sonnets The Grave of the Countess Potocki
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  • B. D. Wong In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Benedict Wong In terms of representation, television is reflecting an era that has passed. It's the wrong time; it's the wrong period. In all sorts of television, it doesn't feel like the 21st century.
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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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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  • Wyndham Lewis In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of ''freedom,'' like a bastard brother of reform.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • C. Wright Mills In the formulas of 'personnel experts', men and women are to be shaped into the 'well rounded, acceptable, effective personality.' Just like small proprietors, they cannot higgle over prices, which are fixed, or 'judge the market' and accordingly buy wisely.
    White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bill Vaughan In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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