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• I dont see much difference between it and the other films though I can see on a rational and intelligent level there is a big difference.

  Danny Boyle

  Intelligent, Differences, Levels

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• The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

  Steven Seagal

  Children, Giving, Important

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• The only thing I can really offer the Filipino people is my sincerity.

  Corazon Aquino

  People, Sincerity, Filipino

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• I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.

  Peter Brook

  Men, Space, Theatre

  Peter Brook (1996). “The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

  Alfred Jarry

  Use, Way, Ruins

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• Whenever I think of God I can only conceive of Him as a Being infinitely great and infinitely good. This last quality of the divine nature inspires me with such confidence and joy that I could have written even a miserere in tempo allegro.

  Joseph Haydn

  Thinking, Joy, Inspire

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• The only thing I can be sure of at any given time is what I am thinking myself. I have no idea what the others are thinking. Do they think space is big and dangerous? I do. What do they believe in? I think nobody ought to be alone. That one should be with someone. With friends. With the person one loves. I think it is important to love. I think it's the most important thing.

  Erlend Loe

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.82, Canongate Books

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• But I would rather have snow. Snow is the on.y weather I really like. Nothing makes me less grumpy than snow. I can sit by a window for hours watching it fall. The silence of snowfall. You can use that. It's best when there's background lighting, for example a street lamp. Or when you go outside and let it flutter down on you. That's real riches, that is.

  Erlend Loe

  Real, Fall, Weather

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• I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Song, Weather, News

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• I can live well with what I have.I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more.

  Jose Mujica

  People, President, Trying

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• Everything I've ever done is out. I don't have boxes of unreleased stuff. There's nothing in the files. I can never keep anything unless I don't like the sound of it or it didn't work. If I can sing it to an engineer, I can sing it to anyone.

  John Lennon

  Music, Sound, Done

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• I can't control what other people do or say. I can only control the one vote I've been bestowed upon by the people in the Tennessee Valley.

  Mo Brooks

  People, Tennessee, Valleys

  "10 Freshmen Lawmakers Talk With Diane Sawyer". Interview with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. August 1, 2011.

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• I am just glad that I can take the music to the people who want to hear it. I love my audiences. I am deeply indebted to them for giving me the chance to sing my concerts, make records, and do what I love. Whatever people call it, it is great to have a voice!

  Judy Collins

  Music, Voice, People

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• I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

  Judy Collins

  Hypnosis, Way, Making Time

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• I can spare a dime, brother, but in these morally inflationary times, a dime goes a lot farther if it's demanding work rather than adding to the indignity of relief.

  Phil Ochs

  Brother, Relief, Dimes

  Interview with Michael Ross, 1969.

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• I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.

  Vera Brittain

  Thinking, Important, Majority

  Vera Brittain (2005). “One Voice: Pacifist Writings from the Second World War”, p.42, A&C Black

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• I don't intend to stay around any longer than I feel I can be No. 1.

  Carl Lewis

  Feels

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• Each training session I'm getting better and better. I have no other duties now, no worries, it's all about training, eating and sleeping. I have a lot more time and can put a lot more effort into training. I'm feeling better every day. As long as I'm feeling myself I'm definitely in no doubt I can go to the Olympics and win.

  Usain Bolt

  Sleep, Feel Better, Winning

  "Usain Bolt: 'Legends have come before me, but this is my time'" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2012.

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• I can run sub-10 any time but I'm just not ready.

  Asafa Powell

  Running, Ready, Not Ready

  "100m glory for Jamaican sprint duo", www.cnn.com. March 20, 2006.

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• I am a bit different from the other sprinters because, I would say, I can run many different ways while the other guys they just came on and they can only run one way.

  Asafa Powell

  Running, Guy, Different

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• Ive had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could have dreamed of, Ive raced a lot longer than I thought I would. I know I can still be better, but I just dont know if I love it enough any more.

  Clara Hughes

  Cycling, Way, Enough

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• Sport that consumed me for over two decades . . . is now gone. Now it's just me. No pressure, no expectations, no need to be fast, good, strong or to even improve. Yet I can't let go of this idea that I always need to be more than I am. And it is eating me alive.

  Clara Hughes

  Sports, Letting Go, Strong

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• I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

  O. J. Simpson

  Incidents, Know How, Knows

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

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• I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.

  Patti LaBelle

  Girl, Song, Mary J Blige

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• This is the ultimate cruelty, isn't it? That I can talk and talk and to anyone listening, it's only air--too rich a diet to be swallowed by a mundane world.

  David Henry Hwang

  Air, Listening, World

  David Henry Hwang (1988). “M. Butterfly”, p.58, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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