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• I lived in Beverly Hills for years. I always had a line, “I hate the rich.” From what I witnessed after living there for 15 years, these people just don’t raise their kids. I used to see the lineup of cars in front of the schools and it was all the nannies.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Hate, School, Kids

  "Andrew Dice Clay On ‘Indestructible,’ His Comeback And Why He Hates Internet Porn". Interview with Ross Luippold, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 26, 2012.

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• Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.

  Billy Campbell

  People, Cooking, Sailing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.

  Christopher Cross

  Song, Bars, Lasts

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• The Internet was appealing partly because it was something I could do in bed and feel like I was achieving something. I had an operation when I was 13 and ended up with complications, so I was in and out of the hospital. The bottom line is you can get through health challenges. It's part of why I was so driven.

  Pete Cashmore

  Challenges, Bed, Internet

  ""Pete Cashmore Started A Blog Because It Was Something He Could Do From Bed" by Teri Evans". www.businessinsider.com. December 11, 2011.

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• There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.

  John R. Allen

  Today, September, Afghanistan

  "Gen. Allen: Afghan relations bruised, not broken". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. April 4, 2012.

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• The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.

  Dorothy Allison

  Writing, People, Body

  Dorothy Allison, Mae Miller Claxton (2012). “Conversations with Dorothy Allison”, p.73, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Historically, Labour has used technology as a form of control. We would use pagers and faxes to send out messages telling people what line to take. The key learning from the Obama campaign is to use technology to empower your supporters.

  Douglas Alexander

  Technology, Keys, People

  "Yes we can: Labour election campaign to adapt Barack Obama's blueprint" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.

  Gregg Allman

  Real, Nice, Feelings

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• I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is, every sound I can make has been harvested.

  Hank Azaria

  Character, Sound, Different

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• We've had Town Hall meetings, we've witnessed election after election, in which the American people have taken a position on the President's health care bill. And the bottom line is the people don't like this bill. They don't want it.

  Eric Cantor

  Taken, People, President

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• We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.

  Eric Cantor

  Cutting, Trying, Pay

  "'Things Could Get Pretty Messy'". Interview with Steve Moore, www.wsj.com. October 2, 2010.

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• We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.

  Ken Calvert

  Government, People, Gone

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• I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

  Annie Baker

  Talking, Play, People

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• We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there.

  Robert Cailliau

  Names, One Line, Forget

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• Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character's mind would work.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Character, Brain, Mind

  "Sarah Wayne Callies Talks Latest Episode of THE WALKING DEAD in Spoiler-Filled Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 7, 2012.

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• Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Allies, United States, Defense

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• I'm endlessly putting myself on tapes for things over in America! I'm always sitting at home, learning lines, sending stuff to America.

  Arthur Darvill

  Home, America, Tape

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

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• I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.

  Charlie Day

  New York, Boss, Tables

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• Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.

  Bill Delahunt

  Bricks And Mortar, Community, Bears

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• Back then, it was more or less we couldn't change a line in our script. We weren't allowed to change lines. Today, actors change everything and won't do parts. It's very different today. Back then, the producers were in charge. Today, actors are more in charge.

  Donna Douglas

  Different, Actors, Today

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

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• One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.

  Hal David

  Falling In Love, Objectivity, Degrees

  "Music Legend Hal David Passes, But His Lyrics Still Resonate" by Brian Levin, J.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2012.

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• I always thought my jaw line was manly. I have this pockmark on my chin from when I was 9. I used to get freaked out about it because people thought it was a pimple. But those are the things I've become really comfortable with as I've gotten older. My scars.

  Rosario Dawson

  People, Pimples, Scar

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• I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

  Andrew Bird

  Believe, Writing, Kind

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• Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere.

  Jo Ann Davis

  Home, Phones, Cells

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• The first line in the first Gasland is: “I’m not a pessimist. I’ve always had a great deal of faith in people that we won’t succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we’ll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.” I have not lost that sense.

  Josh Fox

  People, Greed, Firsts

  "“Gasland Part II”: The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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