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• If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

  Juliette Binoche

  Goes On, Want, Lacking

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• I like intensity. If it's too mellow, I feel like, bleah. I like intensity, because it's way of reaching spaces inside of you, and it's my need of knowledge, of knowing about myself regardless.

  Juliette Binoche

  Knowing, Space, Needs

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• In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if you don't have salt; you can knock at someone's door, like in any city. But you know, you can hear the others, and you want to sleep, you get annoyed.

  Juliette Binoche

  Sleep, Doors, Cities

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• Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

  Brad Bird

  Creating, Illusion, Animation

  "The 77th Annual Academy Awards". Music, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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  I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

  Larry Bird

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

  Larry Bird

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

  Larry Bird (1990). “Drive: The Story of My Life”, Bantam Books

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• I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Being Strong, Practice

  Larry Bird (1990). “Drive: The Story of My Life”, Bantam Books

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• If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Children, Mean

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• I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.

  Bjork

  Trying, Pay, Stuff

  "Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2005.

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• Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.

  Bjork

  Girl, Support, Feminist

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• I feel that I'm at my best as a person and that I'm coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a stage, so if I can perform in one way or another I think I'll be okay.

  Claudia Black

  Home, Thinking, Way

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• The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.

  Conrad Black

  Country, Israel, Numbers

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• The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot be measured directly against the volume of such emissions.

  Conrad Black

  Doe, Natural, Volume

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• If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

  Jack Black

  Band, Made, Runners

  FaceBook post by Jack Black from Aug 24, 2013

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• The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.

  Jack Black

  Sexy, Real, Challenges

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• In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Believe, Humor

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• If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Believe, Health

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• If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Believe, Humor

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• People would be a lot better off if they'd enjoy being single.

  Lewis Black

  Being Single, People, Would Be

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• If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.

  Lewis Black

  Class, Warfare, Rich

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• If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?'

  Lewis Black

  Book, Government, Why Not

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• My problem has always been with authority, and I'm sure if anybody understands that, it's people in uniform.

  Lewis Black

  People, Uniforms, Problem

  "A Lewis 'Black Christmas' With The USO". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 4, 2010.

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• When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a source that would never run out.

  Lewis Black

  Running, America, Energy

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• You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.

  Lewis Black

  Law, Doe, Want

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• One of the most important things, especially when you're leaving school, is to realize you're going to be dealing with a lot of idiots. And a lot of those idiots are in charge of things, so if you're in an interview and you really want to tell the person off, don't do it.

  Lewis Black

  School, Leaving, Important

  "Lewis Black's Life Advice for Millennials" by Gwynne Watkins, www.gq.com. August 22, 2013.

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