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• The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.

  Bono

  Artist, Rolling, Albums

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• It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

  Halle Berry

  Character, Self, People

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• Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

  Karl Barth

  Happiness, Laughter, Humor

  "The Harper Book of Quotations". Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, 1993.

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• I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

  Alan Ball

  Stories, Storytelling, Process

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• Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

  Neil Armstrong

  Bird, Flying, Sailing

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• The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Relationship, Friends, Marriage

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• Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.

  Tom Felton

  Nice, School, People

  "Tom Felton Talks About Reading, Collecting, and Being Draco". Interview with Marie Morreale, www.scholastic.com.

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• When I go to a sci-fi convention, oh God, it's the closest thing to being a rock star I will ever know in this life. I want to be a rock star, don't you? It's a good thing to be, a rock star.

  Nathan Fillion

  Stars, Rocks, Want

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• Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

  Hannah Arendt

  Art, Poetry, Language

  Hannah Arendt, Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb (2007). “Reflections on Literature and Culture”, p.174, Stanford University Press

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• I'm very nearly drunk enough to be transcendent," Calla said after a space. She was not the only psychic drinking, but she was the closest one to transcendence. Persephone peered dubiously into the bottom of her own glass. In a very small voice (her voice was always small), she said sadly, "I am not drunk at all." Maura offered, "It's the Russian in you." "Estonian,"Persephone replied.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Drinking, Glasses, Psychics

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• In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, Get back to who you were meant to be. This is the heart spot, the center. Your whole life the skin on that place will stay closest to being a baby's skin, as close as you can get anymore to the way you started, the way you once thought you'd always be.

  Monica Drake

  Suicide, Baby, Heart

  Monica Drake (2010). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.65, Hawthorne Books

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• I believe in dreams. I believe that every night on the planet everything that is, was and can be is dreamt. I believe that what happens in dreams is no different no less important than what happens in the waking world. I believe that dreams are the closest equvalent present-day mankind has to trime travel.

  Marilyn Manson

  Dream, Believe, Night

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• The last time I went back to a girl's house for an impromptu house party I spent most of the night straightening out rugs, putting down coasters and alphabetising DVDs while all around me people got off with whoever was closest and gradually headed off to various rooms to make more mess, no doubt.

  Jon Richardson

  Girl, Party, Night

  Jon Richardson (2011). “It’s Not Me, It’s You!: Impossible perfectionist, 27, seeks very very very tidy woman”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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• This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Feelings, Certain, Standing

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• We're trained to believe we should cling to one person only. Yet there are so many people who pass in and out of our lives. Good people, worth people, interesting people. Most of them stay for a little while and then move on. Some of them find a place with us and, if we let them, they enrich us. Don't close yourself off from the rest of the world, Eve. If you find someone who can make you understand a little more, laugh every now and then, give you a new experience, then never feel guilty. You'll just have more to give back to those who are closest to you.

  Iris Johansen

  Good Life, Believe, Moving

  Iris Johansen (2008). “Quicksand: An Eve Duncan Forensics Thriller”, p.191, St. Martin's Press

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• In my incoherence I was grateful that for a few moments I had known what it was to suffer-or so I thought. But nothing is less like a thing that that which is closest to it. A man who had been near to death thinks how he knows death. When the day finally comes for him to meet it, he does not recognise it. 'This is not it,' he says, as he dies.

  Raymond Radiguet

  Grateful, Thinking, Men

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• It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.

  Amartya Sen

  Home, Delight, Bangladesh

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• Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Way, Facts

  "The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 1, 2013.

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• To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.

  Lady Gaga

  Dream, Growing Up, Singers

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• It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

  Jane Goodall

  War, Winning, Brain

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• The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.'

  Jennifer Grant

  Memories, Dad, Father

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

  Kenny Guinn

  Children, Believe, Abuse

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• I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it.

  Joanne Harris

  Thinking, Long, Mentor

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• What kind of influence did my parents have on my life? Well, they had the most influence. These are the people who are closest to me. My parents are very positive people. They've been supportive. They're always there.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Yankees, People

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• I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Hurt, Want, Causes

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2010). “Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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