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• I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Hands, Able, Towns

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• The best way to kill someone is from the inside, by crushing their hopes and dreams.

  Simon Cowell

  Dream, Way, Dictator

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• Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes.

  John Updike

  Adversity, Use, Dose

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• It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Wall, Men, Fingers

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 2, sc. 4, 1951.

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• Ella's supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops, cafes, and restaurants and the crush of people that made the West Village of Manhattan unique in the world. In a single block you could buy fertility statues from Tanzania, rare Amazonian orchids, a pawned brass tuba, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, or the best, most expensive cup of coffee you ever tasted. It was the doughnuts, incidentally, that attracted Gaia.

  Francine Pascal

  Block, Coffee, Unique

  Francine Pascal (2001). “Sam”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• In Blue Crush , we meet three Hawaiian surfers who work as hotel maids, live in a grotty rental, and are raising the kid sister of one of them. Despite this near-poverty, they look great; there is nothing like a tan and a bikini to overcome class distinctions.

  Roger Ebert

  Kids, Blue, Class

  Roger Ebert (2004). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005”, p.76, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time.

  Roger Ebert

  Girl, Teenage, Couple

  Roger Ebert (1997). “Roger Ebert's Video Companion”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Hero, Marching On, Grace

  Julia Ward Howe (1866). “Later Lyrics”, p.42

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• I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.

  Jason Reitman

  Careers, Perfect, Six

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• Shahid Kapoor is my childhood crush

  Alia Bhatt

  Childhood

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• Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its wars and its domestic struggles for power, its palace revolutions which only replace one tyrant by another, and inevitably at the end of this development there is ... death! Or the destruction of States, and new life starting again in thousands of centers on the principle of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement.The choice lies with you!

  Peter Kropotkin

  War, Lying, Struggle

  "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal". Book by Peter Kropotkin, 1896.

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• There’s something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That’s how Speed is. He’s a really focused guy with a heart of gold and the corporations are trying to crush him and use him for his skills to make them more money.

  Emile Hirsch

  Heart, Fighting, Skills

  "‘Speed Racer’ Puts Emile Hirsch in the Driver's Seat". Hollywood Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• My first TV crush was Elroy Jetson, because he was so cute. And I wanted to play with Astro on his automatic dog-walker thing.

  Alyson Hannigan

  Cute, Dog, Play

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• I have a girl crush on Rachel Bilson. She's so cute, I just want to put her in my pocket. I love her style, and I'm fascinated by everything she wears, and I think she's a really sweet and kind person. She's cute. I like her.

  Alexandra Chando

  Cute, Girl, Sweet

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• I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one.

  Julia Stiles

  Moving, Thinking, Directors

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

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• The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.

  Adam McKay

  Running, Government, Media

  "What the Hell is Going On?" by Adam McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2009.

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• The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Memories, Land

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• Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Strong, Men, Enemy

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• Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail. And crying havoc on the slug and snail.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Crow, Slugs

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The poetical works of Henry W. Longfellow, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti, illustr. by W. Lawson. Illustr. by E. Edwards”, p.366

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• Our party [Republicans] has been focused on big business too long. I came through small business. I understand how hard it is to start a small business. That's why everything I'll do is designed to help small businesses grow and add jobs. I want to keep their taxes down on small business. I want regulators to see their job as encouraging small enterprise, not crushing it.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Party, Long

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• This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.

  Josiah Warren

  Money, Hype, Degrees

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• I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.

  Dorothy Malone

  Directors, Brilliant, Brilliant Ideas

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

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• True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Equality, Men, Evil

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• My biggest dream was to ruin the lives of my readers and crush their souls... And I really think that worked out pretty well for me.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dream, Thinking, Soul

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• Mine, said the stone,mine is the hour.I crush the scissors,such is my power.Stronger than wishes,my power, alone.Mine, said the paper,mine are the wordsthat smother the stonewith imagined birds,reams of them, flownfrom the mind of the shaper.Mine, said the scissors,mine all the knivesgashing through paper'sethereal lives;nothing's so properas tattering wishes.As stone crushes scissors,as paper snuffs stoneand scissors cut paper,all end alone.So heap up your paperand scissor your wishesand uproot the stonefrom the top of the hill.They all end aloneas you will, you will.

  David Mason

  Real Life, Cutting, Bird

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