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• Whether it's a sitting president when I was an impeachment manager, or a Republican president who has taken liberties with adherence to the law, to me the standard is the same.

  Bob Barr

  Law, President, Liberty

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• Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the life can be a light which goes on deepening as you go on growing.

  Rajneesh

  Light, Childhood, Goes On

  Rajneesh Osho (2003). “The World Beyond Time”, p.164, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

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• Obviously I've taken drugs.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Drug

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• The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

  Eric Topol

  Orbit, Cocoons, World

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• I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives me an inferiority complex. When I read a book like that and then come back to my own work, I feel like a eunuch who has taken a course in voice production.

  George Orwell

  Book, Voice, Giving

  George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• I'm very, very blessed. But my safety, my privacy, and my respect are three things that I feel like are trying to be taken away from me right now. As a mother I have to speak up and say something. I have to speak up.

  Britney Spears

  Mother, Blessed, Safety

  "A defiant Britney Spears takes on the tabloids". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.nbcnews.com. June 20, 2006.

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• I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment.

  John Steinbeck

  Hangover, Punishment, Consequence

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• I've always taken a lot of exercise - I get a bit depressed if I don't. In terms of food, I'm a bit of a grazer.

  Rupert Penry-Jones

  Exercise, Term, Bits

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Writing a novel- actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs- is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV's so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it's damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.

  Steve Hely

  Pain, Writing, Filling In

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• If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Strong, Thinking, Envy

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• During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Vietnam, Bananas

  Kurt Vonnegut (2017). “A Man Without a Country”, p.108, Dial Press

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• I believe, if Hillary Clinton is the nominee, Bernie Sanders will be her most powerful and strongest supporter. No question. And he is going to take credit for positions that she`s taken and she`ll have to live with that.

  Joe Conason

  Powerful, Believe, Credit

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I love working with my hands. The computer has taken over my life in a way that makes me really uncomfortable. I'm trying to find a happy medium that gives me freedom but also still goes back to the idea of craft.

  Matana Roberts

  Hands, Ideas, Giving

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Someone can do anything they want to you on the outside, but whatever they do to me they cannot destroy what's on my inside. Mentally that cannot be taken away from me, no matter what someone does.

  Matana Roberts

  Doe, Want, Matter

  Source: thequietus.com

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• God has taken his chosen people, the problem being you are the only non-chosen person.

  Moby

  People, Problem, Chosen

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Years, Months

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Past, Years

  Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.201, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Since I stopped drinking my love life has taken a really serious hit. Romantic encounters that seemed like a really good idea at three o'clock in the morning on the Lower East Side? Less so in sobriety.

  Moby

  Morning, Drinking, Love Life

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• University presidents should be loud and forceful in defending the university as a social good, essential to the democratic culture and economy of a nation. They should be criticizing the prioritizing of funds for military and prison expenditures over funds for higher education. And this argument should be made as a defense of education, as a crucial public good, and it should be taken seriously. But they aren't making these arguments.

  Henry Giroux

  Military, President, Culture

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.

  Robert Kane Pappas

  Luck, Advertising, Politician

  "Can the Corporate Media Turn Lies Into Truth?". Interview with Mark Karlin, www.scoop.co.nz. August 12, 2011.

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• I've been part of really big things that are amazing, but I haven't taken on that responsibility yet. So I don't want to sell myself short by having a kid and then regret not doing what I set out to do.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Regret, Responsibility, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's an amount of love that can never - no matter what - be taken away or torn apart, no matter the situation. There are certain people who you will always, always love.

  Selena Gomez

  People, Torn Apart, Matter

  "Exclusive Interview: Selena Gomez". Interview with Neha Gahdhi, www.seventeen.com. May 3, 2011.

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• I think women are often taken for granted.

  Sheila Johnson

  Thinking, Taken For Granted, Granted

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• California, because of their Equity Funding Formula, moves a step in that direction by sending more resources to communities and students that face greater levels of poverty. But California is doing that from a greater position of real weakness, because they were already so far behind other states in funding per student. It’s a step, but many more steps need to be taken.

  Pedro Noguera

  Real, Moving, California

  "There’s a Way to Help Inner-City Schools. Obama’s New Education Law Isn't It". Interview with Kristina Rizga, www.motherjones.com. January 8, 2016.

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• We can't just go, like, oh that'd be cool then not do it. So it's one of those weird things. You gain all these things on your journey. You get smarter. It's interesting how you are who you are in high school in a lot of ways. When I look at my friends, I feel no different about them than I did when I was in high school. I mean that in a great way. They've taken on a micro scale what they were doing and making it bigger.

  Zack Snyder

  School, Mean, Journey

  Source: therumpus.net

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