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  • Bono There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious.
    Source: Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bobby Heenan There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories.
    Bobby Heenan
    American professional wrestler (1944 - 2017)
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  • Bernhard Schlink There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don't know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I've never regretted it.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Billy Corgan These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Barry Manilow These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn These fragile bodies of touch and taste
    This vibrant skin, this hair like lace
    Spirits open to the thrust of grace
    Never a breath you can afford to waste, when you're
    Lovers in a dangerous time
    Lovers in a dangerous time...
    Source: Stealing Fire (1984)
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Caleb Cushing These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Al Jarreau These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
    Al Jarreau
    American singer and musician (1940 - 2017)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Bob Dylan They already expect you to just give a check to tax-deductible charity organization.
    Source: Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Andy Warhol They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Bobby Fischer They are subhuman. They are the scum of the Earth. When you talk about Jews, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel of humanity.
    Source: Radio Interview, October 16 1999 [22]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • H. Rap Brown They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
    H. Rap Brown
    American activist (1943 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
    Source: On Soviet bureaucrats, in LIFE magazine (13 June 1960)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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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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  • Raymond Chandler They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Barry Switzer They had no game plan for losing.... Because when you can't win a game, you need to run the clock, don't let it stop, don't throw passes incomplete... get the game over with, get on the bus and go home.
    Barry Switzer
     
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  • Lorrie Moore They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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