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• Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not hack-work, it can challenge the best. Joss Whedon raised the bar for every writer - not just genre or niche writers, but every single one of us.

  Russell T Davies

  Writing, Challenges, Vampire

  "Mindy Newell: It Was Twenty Years Ago Today…". www.comicmix.com. April 3, 2017.

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• I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack.

  Mark Rydell

  Agents, Als, Knows

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• I suppose it hacks me off sometimes when people go on about all the other stuff, because I have really worked hard at my game, and I've been incredibly dedicated in getting myself fit, and getting my game right.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Games, People, Goes On

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• It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.

  Aimee Bender

  Writing, Pages, Best Work

  Interview with Ryan Boudinot, www.pifmagazine.com. November, 1998.

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• Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa— Who knows most, knows least.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Music, Horse, Italian

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1961). “Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke: in Verbindung mit den Mozartstädten, Augsburg, Salzburg und Wien”

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• (The Hack-A-Shaq is) just a way of telling me that you can't stop me. Thank you. I appreciate it.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Appreciate, Way

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• In this millennium that we live in, the 'Hack-a-Shaq'has proven not to work. It might work a couple games every now and then, but when it comes to the playoffs or a championship series, it doesn't work - not at all.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Couple, Games

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• Be afraid of the Chinese. I mean, the Chinese shoot down satellites in space; they hack into Google's computers; the Osama bin Laden people can't make their underwear blow up.

  Francis Fukuyama

  Mean, Blow, Space

  "The Colbert Report", May 02, 2011.

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• I'm very proud of being a hack. It's why I've lived as long as I have, I think.

  Stan Lee

  Thinking, Long, Proud

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• A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack.

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Linux, Performances, Files

  Usenet message to Linus Torvalds, January 30, 1992.

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• We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep down, we like confusing people who are stuffier and less mentally agile than we are, especially when they're bosses. There's a little bit of the mad scientist in all hackers, ready to discombobulate the world and flip authority the finger - especially if we can do it with snazzy special effects.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Fun, People, Mad

  "Guest Editorial: World Domination". www.linuxjournal.com. January 1, 2000.

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• Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

  William Empson

  Men, Sea, Iron

  William Empson (1984). “Collected poems”, Chatto & Windus

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• I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies - like no money.

  Harry Chapin

  Emergencies, Cases, No Money

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• Some maniac butcher is trying to hack away your balls.

  Alice Cooper

  Insanity, Trying, Balls

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• You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.

  Robert Moses

  Meat, Want, Way

  "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro, (p. 849), 1974.

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• No nose hair. Ever. You'd be surprised at all the little twigs sticking out. I just can't get it. How can you see that and not just want to hack it off?

  Kyan Douglas

  Hair, Noses, Want

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

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• If someone hacks your password, you can change it - as many times as you want. You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.

  Al Franken

  Secret, Want, Fingerprints

  "Sen. Al Franken: iPhone Fingerprint Scanner Raises ‘Significant Privacy Questions’" by Gerry Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2013.

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• I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Style, Excellence, Certain

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.335, e-artnow

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• I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack.

  Chris Rock

  Overrated

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• Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.

  Mary McCarthy

  Political, Speech, Fancy

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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• Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.

  Wei Jingsheng

  Party, Teaching, Blood

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• Huh? Windows was designed to keep the idiots away from Unix so we could hack in peace. Let's not break that.

  Tom Christiansen

  Idiot, Window, Break

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• The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are subdued by its machinery and only rare talents may create their own work. The rest become shameless hacks or are crushed.

  Che Guevara

  Art, Rebel, Tools

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• There are organizations like Southern Poverty Law Center, there are some private investigators that work for the Republican Establishment, that actually use technology to hack into your phone. ... Secure your phone. Black Phone by the makers of Silent Circle is probably the most secure phone out there.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Technology, Phones

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• I know a little about Hack (Wilson) because his picture is next to my locker. I am lucky to be there at the right time. People will now remember two guys, Hack Wilson and myself, and the season is not over yet.

  Sammy Sosa

  Two, People, Guy

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