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• The welfare state is collapsing all around us. There are people that realize that we can't go on this way, but I'm not sure how many people realize how close we are to the collapse of the U.S. financial system.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Way, Financial

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• This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Birthday, Hurt, Opportunity

  "Behind-the-Scenes with Lindsay Lohan". Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2009.

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• I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.

  John Lydon

  Wicked, Rotten, Gigs

  The Daily Telegraph, January 6, 2008.

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• I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.

  John Lydon

  Suffering, Wicked, Gigs

  "John Lydon: 'I'm fat, I'm 50 and I'm back'" by Olga Craig, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 1, 2008.

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• I may find something that looks interesting and then go on to alter the recipe by adding spices, things of my own. I also look for time-saving recipes, dishes that can be prepared ahead and stored.

  Paul Lynde

  Interesting, Looks, Spices

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• I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I'll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day.

  Paul Lynde

  Couple, Glasses, Vegetables

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• People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.

  John Malkovich

  Funny, Life, People

  "Life and taxes". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. July 09, 2006.

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• Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

  Thomas Malthus

  Years, Environmental, Population

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• My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

  Bob Marley

  Music, Stupid, Forever

  Bob Marley (2012). “Listen to Bob Marley: The Man, the Music, the Revolution”, Open Road Media

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• Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Fame, Hours, Bad Things

  Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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• There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.

  Dave Matthews

  Young, Harder, Time Goes On

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• People come up to me and they're usually nice, but as it goes on you realise that some people aren't nice. Some people are not nice at all.

  James McAvoy

  Nice, People, Come Up

  "Trying to be good". Interview with Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2005.

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• It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Kids, Vacation

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• Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.

  Helen Mirren

  Mother, Children, Husband

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• I think the challenge is going out in front of a paying audience with absolutely nothing and trying to entertain them for two hours. Thankfully, I only think about that right before we go on, and then once we're out there, everything's fine.

  Colin Mochrie

  Thinking, Two, Challenges

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

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• Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Long, Easy

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• Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

  Alan Moore

  Culture, Information, Process

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• I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.

  Michael Moore

  Class, Guy, Midwest

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• If you're in a diabetic or prediabetic state, it's good to have medication to go on for a period of time. But simply by making the changes - get your sleep, 35 grams of fiber and a half-hour walk - your cholesterol will come down, your sugar will come down, and your blood pressure will come down. Only the minority of people can't control it.

  Michael Moore

  Sleep, Blood, People

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• It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

  Michael Morpurgo

  War, Focus, Suffering

  "Michael Morpurgo on writing Letter for Carlos". Interview with Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I get angry about things, then go on and work.

  Toni Morrison

  Inspiring, Angry

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• The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

  Van Morrison

  Music, Jazz

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• The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

  Iris Murdoch

  Love, Change, Fall

  Iris Murdoch (1977). “Henry and Cato”, Viking Pr

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• So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Children, Couple, Home

  "Inside Rupert Murdoch's lair: His life, his rules". www.mirror.co.uk. July 21, 2011.

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• It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

  George Jean Nathan

  Literature, Now And Then, Said

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