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• I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Doubt, Horror

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• Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.

  Robert Ardrey

  Charity, Cowardice, Cruelty

  Robert Ardrey (1977). “The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man”

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• Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Song, Air, Literature

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• I have no idea what `classic anti-Semitism' is. I'm not familiar with this term. I don't know where it comes from and what connection it has to France and what is occurring here. There wasn't anti-Semitism in France. An isolated incident can always happen. When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism. In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Years, Law, Ideas

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• Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy when he was 16 and spent most of his life in Vienna. He's the key composer between classic music and romantic music. Beethoven was the beginning of romantic music, and he was the teacher of Beethoven and Schubert.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Teacher, Keys, Romantic Music

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• Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

  Henry Ford

  Long, Car, Black

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.49, 谷月社

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• I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Opera, Century, Baroque Music

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• Peter Montiel has long set the highest standard for lucid textbooks on the macroeconomics of developing countries. Now in this new edition of his superb classic Macroeconomics in Emerging Markets, he has surpassed even himself. He uniquely fills the gap between rich-country-obsessed macro- and micro-obsessed developing-country analysis. No student of the macroeconomics of development will henceforward be able to do without this book.

  William Easterly

  Country, Book, Rich Countries

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• A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.

  Bruce Campbell

  Alternatives, Cult, Audience

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. February 11, 2009.

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• Take the classic experiment of using ordinary feedback: just take the output of something and feed it back into the input. Those of us who do that have had really rich experiences. And it is obvious that that line of experimentation can continue.

  David Tudor

  Ordinary, Lines, Input

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• A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Desire, Literature, Educated

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• If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.

  Liev Schreiber

  May, Film, Remakes

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

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• I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.

  Howard Schultz

  Running, College, Class

  "Howard Schultz Talks To Los Angeles Entrepreneurs About Starbucks, His New Book, And The American Dream". Interview with Nicole Larson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 07, 2011.

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• If I'm feeling down in the dumps, or like I need a pop of colour, I'll put on MAC's Lipstick in Lady Danger. I discovered red lipstick when I did the Oscar season: Chanel sent me one and I realised how classic and glamorous it can be.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Feeling Down, Red Lipstick, Feelings

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• As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Sports, Religious

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. 36

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• Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate elements of drama, comedy and suspense is moderately ingenious.

  Tom Shales

  Stars, Drama, Idols

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• The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.

  Rob Sheffield

  Rocks, Creating, Giving

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• Nobody does just one thing. But the real difference between being an entrepreneur and everyone else in the world is the ability to monetize. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold.

  Gene Simmons

  Real, Differences, Entrepreneur

  "Kiss and Tell: Gene Simmons talks business". Interview with Stacy Perman, www.nbcnews.com. September 11, 2008.

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• When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

  Nina Simone

  Music, People, Choices

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• I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight.

  Simon Sinek

  Hero, Fighting, White

  "Fitting In: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Government, Damage, Behaviour

  "Reforming Welfare, Transforming Lives". Cambridge Public Policy lecture, www.ukpol.co.uk. October 25, 2012.

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• I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Eye, Voice, Sound

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• Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.

  James Surowiecki

  Depressing, Book, Years

  "Class Action". www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2005.

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• One of the best parts of Thanksgiving for me is re-watching some of the classic holiday blunders that have been depicted on television. I remember laughing uncontrollably on the set of 'That Girl' back in 1967 when we shot the episode, 'Thanksgiving Comes But Once A Year, Hopefully' during our second season.

  Marlo Thomas

  Girl, Holiday, Years

  "Wishing You A Happy, Blunder-Free Thanksgiving" by Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2013.

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• If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans.

  Emma Watson

  Jeans, Forever, Would Be

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