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• Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Life, Singing, Bottles

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• The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war.

  Laozi

  Clever, Powerful, War

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• I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes but that's really not what giving someone goose bumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique...

  Idina Menzel

  Unique, Giving, Singing

  "Idina Menzel: From Broadway To The Symphony". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. May 19, 2012.

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• I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I've known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well.

  Bella Thorne

  Years, Three, Four

  "Meet Shake It Up's Bella Thorne!". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 4, 2010.

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• Lets make it known that we don't want to give away our beautiful homeland to corporate interests. It is our right as Canadians to be part of these decisions. The only thing standing between this world and environmental catastrophe is us

  Grimes

  Beautiful, Giving, Decision

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• Life evolved under conditions of light and darkness, light and then darkness. And so plants and animals developed their own internal clocks so that they would be ready for these changes in light. These are chemical clocks, and they're found in every known being that has two or more cells and in some that only have one cell.

  Jessa Gamble

  Animal, Light, Cells

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• The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energize a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts. So if someone calls you a dim bulb, that's a compliment.

  Michio Kaku

  Block, Cities, Brain

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• If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Generations, Mormonism, World

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• I want everyone to know I'm coming out of retirement because it's time to free the MMA world of the virus that's known as Tito Ortiz. We've been suffering through his boring fights for too many years, and it's about time that someone beats it out of him once and for all.

  Stephan Bonnar

  Retirement, Fighting, Mma

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• The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape recorder, and remind herself that there is a subject so incalculably vast significance to humanity, about which virtually nothing is known because writers have not been mothers.

  Alicia Ostriker

  Mother, Thinking, Humanity

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• Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates.  It is well known that gold lies hidden underground.

  Nabeshima Naoshige

  Lying, Gold, Well Known

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• Style begins with the people passing through one’s life, the harbingers we push against and the stylemakers we want to clone. Some are famous, some not. Style grows from admiration, from longing, from discrimination—and, yes, from love. It’s all the places you’ve been to and the people and the moments you’ve known: the parts you’ve adopted, to keep forever, and transformed. We wear our history in our hearts and on our backs.

  Carol Edgarian

  Heart, People, Forever

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• I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.

  Michael Fassbender

  Independent, Thinking, Names

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• My father is best known for his light comedies, and Im best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.

  Vincent Cassel

  Father, Crazy, Light

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• It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Copying, Machines, Comedy

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• I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

  Gene Tierney

  Father, Hard Work, Sacrifice

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• I’ve found the man of my dreams. From the moment I met him it just felt like I’d known him forever. I was blown away. He’s the most incredible man. He’s so generous and kind, and he helps so many people, and, um, he makes me laugh like I’ve never laughed, and he’s a great friend.

  Katie Holmes

  Dream, Men, People

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• Jackie Chan, I've known him, he's a great guy. I know he's very watchable and fun. He's perfect, actually.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Fun, Perfect, Guy

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• To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

  Christina Ricci

  Play, Interesting, Life Is

  "Actress Christina Ricci". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 5, 2012.

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• Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally.

  Guy Ritchie

  Morning, Two, Bed

  "Guy's Guys: A Chat With Snatch Director Guy Ritchie And Actor Vinnie Jones". Interview with Smriti Mundhra, www.ign.com. January 19, 2001.

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• Yes, I love playing cartoony characters. Been known for that.

  Joan Collins

  Character

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• It’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I go after it no matter what.

  Aaliyah

  Mature Person, Matter, Wanted

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• I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.

  Robert Stack

  Beauty, Successful, Mirrors

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• I love Elizabeth Taylor. I'm inspired by her bravery. She has been through so much and she is a survivor. That lady has been through a lot and she's walked out of it on two feet. I identify with her very strongly because of our experiences as child stars. When we first started talking on the phone, she told me she felt as if she had known me for years. I felt the same way.

  Michael Jackson

  Stars, Children, Two

  "Moonwalk". Book by Michael Jackson, 1988.

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• With all this talk of Going Green, Buying Green, Living Green, and Green being the new whatever, I've come to realize that, although we had no green, my grandmother was actually the 'greenest' person I've ever known.

  Joy Bryant

  Grandmother, Green, Buying

  "Waste Not, Want Not". www.elle.com. June 21, 2011.

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