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• Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!

  Harold H. Greene

  New York, Next Day, Standing In Line

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• When you've got the Daytona 500 out there at stake and everything riding on the line, guys go for it, and the guys that go for it are the ones that are either going to win or they're going to wreck.

  Jeff Gordon

  Winning, Guy, Riding

  "Daytona Duel: Race two winner's press conference". www.motorsport.com. February 16, 2007.

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• Businesses typically look at issues like price, quality, time of delivery. They don't often think about social and environmental impact because they're focused on their financial bottom line.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Thinking, Impact, Issues

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• The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.

  John Grierson

  Training, World, May

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• I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Play, People, Trying

  "Agant Orange: Maggie Gyllenhaal discusses her co-starring role in the new caper film Criminal". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. September 9, 2004.

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• So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Innovation, Fields

  "Malcolm Gladwell Looks At Technology Innovations". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. May 16, 2011.

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• I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them.

  Michael Gambon

  Writing

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

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• People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, 'Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.'

  Marc Andreessen

  People, Car, Wish

  "Bubble? What Bubble?". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.nytimes.com. July 07, 2011.

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• Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

  Marc Andreessen

  Distance, Party, Phones

  "The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. April 24, 2012.

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• I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Color, Important, Used

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• Iran has interest in seeing that the Shia population of Iraq basically adhere to a line that comes from Iran.

  Richard Armitage

  Iran, Iraq, Population

  "Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. July 14, 2003.

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• Faviana is a line that girls can feel super-glamorous in. A lot of their designs are kind of based off of what celebrities wear on the red carpet!

  Ashley Benson

  Girl, Design, Red

  "Ashley Benson Talks Prom and PLL!". Interview with Kara McGrath, www.seventeen.com. March 5, 2013.

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• At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Home, Genius, Fine

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

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• I can remember standing in a W.P.A. line with a gunny sack, and I remember having to buy chocolate milk instead of white because it was one cent cheaper.

  Jerry Buss

  White, Chocolate, Milk

  "Jerry Buss, Lakers Owner and Innovator, Dies at 80" by Richard Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. February 18, 2013.

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• The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

  Jennifer Egan

  Effort, Firsts, Blind

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• Yeah, getting the company that would help advertise and cross promote the movie on the release was an important factor for New Line, so we went out to a lot of different companies.

  David R. Ellis

  Important, Different, Helping

  "Director David Ellis talks Cellular and Final Destination 3". Interview With Brian B., movieweb.com. April 3, 2004.

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• Sci-fi fans are the most loyal fans on the planet - there's no doubt about it. I've done a few of those conventions, and these people will know the lines!

  Greg Evigan

  People, Doubt, Fans

  "It's Greg Evigan vs. a Three-Headed Dog!". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. October 28, 2005.

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• Aging on camera is just very hard. I love my age. I feel good about myself but high definition television is not kind. You don't even look like yourself in high-def. It just makes every little line on your face more exaggerated so it ends up aging you. It's like you're watching yourself seven years older.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Years, Feel Good, Age

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• There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time.

  Michael Emerson

  Block, Roles, May

  "Actor Michael Emerson". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 16, 2012.

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• Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

  Robert Englund

  Play, Nightmare, Forget

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

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• A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.

  Vince Flynn

  Book, Defense, Firsts

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• I'm the first one in line to go watch "Spider-Man," but there's definitely something in me that makes me want to go to a movie and see something that makes me feel good about life.

  America Ferrera

  Men, Feel Good, Watches

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• I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, Thinking, Self

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• The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.

  Bruce Feiler

  Skeletons, Want, Closets

  "How Easter and Passover Can Make Your Family Happier" by Bruce Feiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.

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• You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?

  Larry Wall

  Doe, Want, One Line

  Usenet article, 1990.

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