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• They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines.

  Matthew Sweet

  Art, Media, Entertainment

  Song: Smog Moon, Album: 100% Fun

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• Greyhound Bus Lines motto: "We Stop For Some Damn Thing Every 200 Yards."

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Travel, Yards

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• We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.

  William Herschel

  Science, America, Unseen

  The Living Age ..., Volume 169, p. 460, 1886.

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• A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

  Aristotle

  Science, Way, Paradox

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• When the elements are arranged in vertical columns according to increasing atomic weight, so that the horizontal lines contain analogous elements again according to increasing atomic weight, an arrangement results from which several general conclusions may be drawn.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Science, Elements, Weight

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• POW 369, I should salute you from this heart of mine. And thank you for placing your life on the line.

  Darryl Worley

  Heart, Politics, Should

  Song: POW 369, 2006

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• Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

  Henry Rollins

  Temptation, Politics

  Song: Let That Devil Out

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• Moses, Aaron, Abraham, they're all a waste of time. It's your ass that's on the line.

  Frank Zappa

  Religious, Religion, Waste

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• But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable.

  John Frankenheimer

  Choices, Records, Producers

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• By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.

  Maureen Forrester

  Mother, Waiting, Four

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• I am not the kind of designer who is racing to the finish line, so while collaborations are important for our growth, each and every one has to be strategic and well-timed with what we have going on internally.

  Prabal Gurung

  Growth, Racing, Important

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• I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more.

  Nina Garcia

  Interesting, Less Is More, Details

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• Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  War, Reality, Men

  "Modern Gothic Master Seth Grahame-Smith Talks ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,’ ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,’ ‘Dark Shadows’". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.indiewire.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

  Terry Gross

  Misunderstood, Asking, Sometimes

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• Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Stuff, Easier, Reciting

  Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com. June 1, 2009.

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• People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Mean, Grandmother, People

  "Zack Galifianakis On Set Interview - THE HANGOVER". Interview with Steve ‘Frosty’ Weintraub, collider.com. April 27, 2009.

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• I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.

  Barry Hannah

  Men, Thoughtful, Afternoon

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• But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.

  Bonnie Hunt

  People, Lucky, Admire

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

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• People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Sacrifice, People, Safety

  "Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston and Anthony Hopkins Interview THOR". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 3, 2011.

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• My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Children, Dad, Years

  "Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston and Anthony Hopkins Interview THOR". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 3, 2011.

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• You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.

  Kristin Hersh

  Emotional, Ideas

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• I'd love to go to fashion week! I'm learning more about designers, thanks to 'Pretty Little Liars'' costume designer, Mandi Line.

  Lucy Hale

  Fashion, Liars, Littles

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• A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Song, Assembly, Bigs

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• Boeing started a new line for their 787 Dreamliner, creating 1,000 new jobs in South Carolina, giving our state a shot in the arm when we truly needed it.

  Nikki Haley

  Jobs, Creating, Giving

  Nikki Haley RNC speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• And all the zig-zags and lines in my hair? I used to do that myself. I just thought it was cool that you could actually do that with your hair.

  Vanilla Ice

  Hair, Used

  "The GQ+A: Vanilla Ice". Interview with Nate Erickson, www.gq.com. April 5, 2013.

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