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• This country pays a price whenever our economy fails to deliver rising living standards to our citizens - which is exactly what has been the case for years now. We pay a price when our political system cannot come together and agree on the difficult but necessary steps to rein in entitlement spending or reform our tax system.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Years, Political

  Speech at Ronald Reagan Library, Simi Valley, California, www.weeklystandard.com. September 27, 2011.

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• The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Tyrants, Ideas, Atheism

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.

  John Cleese

  Girl, America, Attractive

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

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• I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

  Paulo Coelho

  Done, Pay, Wanted

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• Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

  Stephen Colbert

  Country, Mean, Perception

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. January 25, 2006.

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• Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

  Gail Collins

  Kings, Husband, School

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• I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny.

  Joan Collins

  Aggravation, Looks, Feels

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• I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.

  Sean Connery

  Reality, Thinking, Chance

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

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• In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.

  Billy Corgan

  Character, People, Mind

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• Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.

  Sloane Crosley

  Athlete, Technology, Want

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• There's just no concept of layering a thick-sleeved sweater under a coat in L.A. A coat is more of a gesture than a necessity. You know, in case the temperature goes down to 55 degrees.

  Sloane Crosley

  Sweaters, Degrees, Coats

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• Unless we're talking about old-school, witchcraft-trial violence, can we please phase out the phrase 'girl crush?' While we're at it, if we can axe 'like, total girl crush' unless Total Girl Crush is the name of a fizzy soft drink, in which case I'll take two, thank you.

  Sloane Crosley

  Thank You, Crush, Girl

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• Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who've done well that year in certain people's eyes, and it's nothing more than that.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Fun, Eye, Awards

  "EMMYS: Benedict Cumberbatch On 'Sherlock'". Interview with Michael Ausiello, deadline.com. June 23, 2012.

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• There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.

  Andrew Cuomo

  New York, Government, Water

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• Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.

  Rachel Cusk

  Children, People, Firsts

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• The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.

  Rachel Cusk

  Believe, Writing, Understanding

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• My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

  Larry David

  Wish, Changed, Walking

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• As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.

  Angela Davis

  Organization, Racism, Political

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove.

  Evan Davis

  Love, Silly, School

  "Glad to be gay, glad to be Tory" by Evan Davis, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.

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• Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.

  Stockwell Day

  Media, Definitions, Court

  House of Commons Debates, www.ourcommons.ca. March 24, 2005.

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• I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.

  Cat Deeley

  Pieces, Weight, Able

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• If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Numbers, Justice, Accountability

  "Dershowitz: Torture could be justified". Interview with Wolf Blitzer, edition.cnn.com. March 4, 2003.

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• A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Lawyer, Shut Up, Know How

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• In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Mean, Government, Paper

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• A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Men, Thinking, Facts

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