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• Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.

  Henry Ford

  Nascar Racing, Funny Racing, Minutes

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• I like cars that are ahead of their times, and that were noble failures because they were built to a higher standard than the consumer needed. Cars like the Wills Sainte Claire or the Duesenberg.

  Jay Leno

  Car, Noble, Claire

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• What I compare bike lanes to is swimming with the sharks. Sooner or later you're going to get bitten... Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks, not for people on bikes. My heart bleeds for them when I hear someone gets killed, but it's their own fault at the end of the day.

  Rob Ford

  Heart, Swimming, Sharks

  Remarks on cyclist, bicycling.com, May 3, 2012.

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• The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

  Albert Einstein

  Goal, Interesting, Joy

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.227, Princeton University Press

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• Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club readers. These are usually the books you see on display at Barnes and Noble. These Internet writers are like literary terrorists to me. They're training as we speak. They're getting ready to invade. They're building an army.

  Scott McClanahan

  Nice, Book, Army

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• And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his greatness, and wars fought over him, and people dropping to their knees telling him what a wonderful, magnificent being he is? If this all-powerful, all-knowing creature for some reason just can't get by without my worship? Then let him give me some proof. Or at least get over himself if I decide to go out and get some.

  Robin Wasserman

  Powerful, War, Greatness

  Robin Wasserman (2012). “The Book of Blood and Shadow”, p.302, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what we love belongs to us forever.

  Louise Doughty

  Pain, Taken, Loss

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• I think that people are built the way that they’re built. There’s that Kate Moss quote that’s like ‘Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’ and I can name a lot of things that taste better than skinny feels: bread, potatoes … a Philly cheesesteak and fries.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Thinking, Names, People

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• Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that set was already built.

  Gerard Butler

  Tests, Enough, Screens

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• This isn't the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock--I built the stage. And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same people who were protesting them. So when Hillary Clinton a few years ago wanted to build a Woodstock memorial, I said it should be a statue of a National Guardsman feeding a crying hippie.

  John Ratzenberger

  Father, Hippie, Party

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• You know how we built the pyramids? You gotta ask yourself a question always flip the script. What if up was down and down was up? What if you looked down into space standing up on Earth? This is how we built the pyramids.

  Eddie Griffin

  Pyramids, Space, What If

  "Eddie Griffin: Freedom of Speech". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• We’re built to deal with death, disease, failure, struggle, heartbreak, problems. It’s what separates us from the animals and why we envy and love animals so much. We’re aware of it all and have to process it. The way we each handle being human is where all the good stories, jokes, art, wisdom, revelations, and bullshit come from.

  Marc Maron

  Art, Struggle, Animal

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal”, p.18, Spiegel & Grau

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• The character of Rocky was built on the idea that he was chosen to do something. That's why the first image in Rocky is the picture of Christ.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Character, Ideas, Firsts

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• I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. We're all built with illusions. And they break.

  Goldie Hawn

  Children, Truth, Sky

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• If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

  Van Jones

  Mistake, Saint, Social Transformation

  "Bridging the gap between environmental and social justice" by Lauren Rabaino, mustangnews.net. April 4, 2008.

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• I realized a career is built as much on what you don't do as what you do do.

  Rose McGowan

  Careers, I Realized

  FaceBook post by Rose McGowan from Nov 02, 2011

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• If we could sell 100,000 units every album, that would rock. We'd have a big cult following, we'd have a built-in fanbase so we could pretty much play anywhere, people would show up and rock out

  Dustin Diamond

  Rocks, Play, People

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• I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.

  Della Reese

  White, Rays, Singers

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• Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.

  Sarah Vowell

  Cities, Lakes, Vegas

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Every job built my career in some way or made me grow as a person or I got to meet someone great. I had one line on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but I met Will Smith and he took 20 minutes out of his day to talk to the kid with one line. To this day, I think that guy is amazing because of that.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Jobs, Kids, Thinking

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

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• I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isnt true.

  Andy Rooney

  Atheist, Wish, Hoaxes

  Andy Rooney (2009). “Sincerely, Andy Rooney”, p.226, Hachette UK

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• I was scared every time I put on a uniform and stepped on the field. I’m scared every day I go into the studio and I come on stage because I fear that I will not live up to what is expected. I fear that somebody who spent a lot of money to come into our studio, to come to New York and they’ll walk away and go, ‘I could have stayed at home.’ I feared that as a player a fan would come to the stands and I wouldn’t perform well. Just the way I’m built. I’m more scared of failure than I am excited about the accolades that come with success.

  Michael Strahan

  New York, Home, Player

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• I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Dream, Reality, America

  "Jean-Claude Van Damme Re-Evaluates Career: 'I Will Never Do Another Movie I Would Not Like'". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. March 3, 2008.

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• You don’t try to build a wall, you don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say ‘I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.’ You don’t start there… You say ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.’ And you do that every single day and soon you have a wall.

  Will Smith

  Wall, Trying, Bricks

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• Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.

  Tony Curtis

  Hollywood, Sensational, Merry

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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