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• Buy the ticket, take the ride.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fun, Vegas, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.238, Pan Macmillan

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• I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.

  Orlando Bloom

  Girl, Asking, Planes

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• Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

  Fran Drescher

  Events, Tables, Fame

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• Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.

  Orlando Bloom

  Real, Journey, Class

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• When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Trust, Encouraging, Uplifting

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

  Tom Brokaw

  Motivational, Graduation, Education

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• As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

  James Bovard

  Rights, Long, People

  "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Fall, Fate, Odds

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.186, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched.

  Terry Pratchett

  Found You, Long, Return

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

  Tom Brokaw

  Graduation, Thinking, World

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• I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

  Laura Dern

  Jupiter, Plans, Wanted

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• My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning.

  Robert Ripley

  Friday, Morning, Aunt

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• For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.

  Leslie Charteris

  Travel, Adventure, Distressing

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• Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never - they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it.

  Eva Braun

  Two, Feelings, Would Be

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• One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

  Joe Garagiola

  Sports, Keys, Fans

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• Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket.

  Lillian Gordy Carter

  Lying, Balance, Wells

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• Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'

  Buddy Guy

  Song, Couple, Play

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• Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

  Peter Lynch

  Intelligent, Investing, Forget

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• Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

  Douglas Coupland

  Desperation, Lottery Ticket, Lottery

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• Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Winning, Ninety Nine, Ideas

  "Rebuilding the rubble" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2002.

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• Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.

  Uwe Boll

  Dollars, Asking, Actors

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• Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

  Mary Schmich

  Book, Reading, Discounts

  "Now Boarding At Any Newspaper, Magazine Or Book". articles.chicagotribune.com. October 28, 1998.

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• Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.

  Douglas Horton

  Movie, Hero, Actors

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• Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

  Jackie Kennedy

  World, Reporters, Seems

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• We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team.

  Richard J. Daley

  Running, Team, Men

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