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• I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Names, Freak, Slap

  "Anthony Bourdain: Giving Up Cigarettes 'Has in No Way Improved My Life'". Interview with Lindsay Silberman, www.tvguide.com. April 8, 2012.

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• If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Humility, Restaurants, Restaurant Business

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. January 8, 2008.

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• I don't think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that's unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you're not healthy.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, People, Healthy

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• I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Ideas, Tomatoes, Vines

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• In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Writing, College, Thinking

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• Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, Cities, Majority

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• If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Ideas, Surface

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• Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Feelings, Literature

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• I don't always run in the mornings, but I am definitely better if I run in the mornings.

  Julie Bowen

  Running, Morning

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• I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

  David Bowie

  Mother, Sex, Thinking

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• I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.

  Erskine Bowles

  Thinking, Together, Faces

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• If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.

  Barbara Boxer

  Country, Jobs, People

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• I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

  Brandon Boyd

  Birthday, Important, Age

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• Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.

  Brandon Boyd

  Ideas, People, Excited

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• If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Suggestions, Liberalism, Ten Commandments

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• If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• You fail only if you stop writing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Failing, Inspiration To Write

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• If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Groove, Feudalism

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• Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Love, Writing, People

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• If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teaching, Lessons, Never Forget

  "From the archive: Ray Bradbury on life, love and Buck Rogers". Interview with John Ezard, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2012.

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• If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Important, Helping

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• To me, if you're trying to impress a girl, get a date, they're gonna like that more because you're a confident guy. That's what it comes down to.

  Tom Brady

  Girl, Guy, Trying

  Interview, www.si.com. June 21, 2012.

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• If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can't control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I'm just not going to go outside the house. I'm going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

  Tom Brady

  House, Chill, Reactions

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

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• Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not.

  Tom Brady

  White, Needs, Culture

  "Tom Brady Talks Modeling, Kids & His Similarities To Gisele". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2009.

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