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• I have fallen in love with American names,
  The sharp names that never get fat,
  The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims,
  The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat,
  Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Love, War, Names

  'American Names' (1927)

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• Hats off to drug abusers everywhere.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

  "Knucklehead of the week: Manny Ramirez" by Scott Ostler, www.sfgate.com. June 28, 2009.

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• I'm tipping the hat and looking back.

  Robert Plant

  Tipping, Looking Back

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• "I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that!"

  Agatha Christie

  Math, Exercise, Men

  Agatha Christie (1980). “Five complete Miss Marple novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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• I can categorically say I will not be putting my hat in the ring. It's not something I have ever coveted and it's not a position I am interested in taking up at this point in time. I am loyal to Newcastle and they have been fabulous to me. I feel that is where my responsibility lies.

  Rob Andrew

  Lying, Responsibility, Deceit

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• What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!

  Gail Porter

  Country, Cancer, Brave

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Somebody scoffed, Oh, you'll never to that - At least no one ever has done it; But he took off his coat and he took off his hat, And the first thing we knew, he'd begun it.

  Edgar Guest

  Done, Coats, Firsts

  Edgar Albert Guest (1921*). “Poems: A Souvenir”

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• Fashion is a vampiric thing, it's the hoover on your brain. That's why I wear the hats, to keep everyone away from me. They say, 'Oh, can I kiss you?' I say, 'No, thank you very much. That's why I've worn the hat. Goodbye.' I don't want to be kissed by all and sundry. I want to be kissed by the people I love.

  Isabella Blow

  Goodbye, Fashion, Kissing

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• I'm Irish but I design something that is quintessentially English and I love hats.

  Philip Treacy

  Design

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• I think and hope I have changed the way we look at hats. They are no longer symbols of conformity but highly individual acts of rebellion. I am constantly challenging the perception of what a hat should be and what role it should play.

  Philip Treacy

  Thinking, Play, Challenges

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• One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera and Red Hat - and there are a number of other Linux companies going public - basically show that yes, you can actually make money in the open-source area.

  Linus Torvalds

  Thinking, Yes You Can, Numbers

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• Nowhere in politics is there such a mismatch between public and private realm as in transport. Everyone on the M6 last weekend would have agreed with Transport Minister Alasdair Darling's reported hatred of cars. They too wanted drivers off the roads and on to public transport. Go to it, Mr Darling, they cried in unison, get rid of all those cars. Except, of course, their own. Other people's cars are traffic. My car is the outward essence of my being. It is my hat, stick and cane. It embodies my freedom as a citizen and my right as a democrat. My car is my soul in flight.

  Simon Jenkins

  Weekend, Essence, America

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• At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without willful, voluntary consent. Normally, the initiation of force to take life is murder, to take liberty is slavery, and to take property is theft. It is the same whether these actions are done by one person acting alone, by the many acting against a few, or even by officials with fine hats and titles.

  Ken Schoolland

  Freedom, People, Liberty

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• The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made a dam.

  Thomas Hood

  Love, Dams, Bows

  Thomas Hood (1858). “The Miscellaneous Poems of Thomas Hood: Containing Lamia, the Epping Hunt, Odes and Addresses, and Poems of Sentiment, Wit, and Humor, with Notes”, p.174

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• I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Father, Great Love, Bed

  "He Said, She Said: Celebs on Love". www.elle.com. February 13, 2012.

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• The counselor at our clinic would cry with the girls at the drop of a hat. She would find their weakness and work on it. The women were never given any alternatives. They were told how much trouble it is to have a baby.

  Debbie Harry

  Girl, Baby, Abortion

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• A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Running, Women, Half

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• Plausible development, building from what we know about what really did go on, and a whacking good story… Surrounded by Enemies delivers on both, big-time. So hold on to your hats, folks. You’re in for quite a ride.

  Harry Turtledove

  Enemy, Stories, Development

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• At some point my friends and I began to ask, how can a country that produced hippies and such cool people also fight a war and kill people and act cruelly? You would see American GMC trucks go by and soldiers reaching down to whack a girl riding a bicycle. They would yank at her hat and she would get thrown and she would die. You would see Americans do this and feel like they can do anything in our country. But then you'd take an English class with an American soldier from Ohio who seemed just as nice as anyone, yet he was a soldier too.

  Nguyen Qui Duc

  Girl, Country, War

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• "Cracking the Ice" scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner.

  Gregory Neri

  Book, Ice, Heartfelt

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• Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.

  Daniel R. Scoggin

  Air, Excellence, Trying

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• You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Thinking, Interesting, Gentleman

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• Getting the call to be in The Goblet of Fire was like being welcomed into the most exclusive upper circle of some elite actors' club. You sit on set with the cream of the National Theatre and the RSC, all clutching wands or wearing witches' hats.

  David Tennant

  Fire, Circles, Theatre

  "How Harry Potter Changed My Life: Part 3". www.radiotimes.com. July 21, 2011.

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• As far back as I can ever remember, without really knowing it I wanted to be an actor. I was always dressing up, you know, playing pretend, putting on mothers hats and things. I'm sure Freud would have something to say about that. It was very much in my blood.

  Peter Cushing

  Mother, Blood, Dressing Up

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• Since 1972, Ive been going around making speeches on the Everglades. No matter how poor my eyes are, I can still talk. Ill talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat. Whoever wants me to talk, Ill come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  Eye, Speech, Want

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas, John Rothchild (1990). “Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River”, p.230, Pineapple Press Inc

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