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• I got a feeling I had loads when I was in primary school, 'cause I had red hair; you know, like Duracell.

  Aphex Twin

  School, Hair, Feelings

  "Eponymous Rex". Interview with Marc Weidenbaum, disquiet.com. April 15, 1997.

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• I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Forever, Goes On, Pun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've gone up for loads of jobs in the past that I knew were going to be terrible, and I've done my best, and I still haven't got them. So I think I've been lucky in who's decided I'd be worthy of their time.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Jobs, Past, Thinking

  "Chris O'Dowd: from TV nerd to unlikely heartthrob... to Broadway leading man" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2014.

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• Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'

  Chris O'Dowd

  Brother, Children, Thinking

  "Chris O'Dowd: from The IT Crowd to Hollywood". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.

  Terry O'Quinn

  Character, Frustration, Thinking

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

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• Though some may have more than others, yet every one hath his load, as much as he can carry. Every vessel cannot bear up with the like sail, and therefore God, to keep us from oversetting, puts on so much as will safest bring us to heaven, our desired port.

  Ezekiel Hopkins

  God, Heaven, May

  Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry) (1867). “The Works of Ezekiel Hopkins: Successively Bishop of Raphoe and Derry”, p.50

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• I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.

  Dennis Lehane

  Writing, Bars, Use

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• So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick - but at least I'd had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full.

  John Prescott

  Sick, Feelings, Chocolate

  John Prescott (2008). “Prezza: My Story: Pulling No Punches”

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• There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.

  Glen Campbell

  Art, Light, Media

  Glen Campbell, Tom Carter (1994). “Rhinestone cowboy: an autobiography”

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• I want to have a family and I'd like to live in a lovely big house, with a massive driveway and gates and loads of kids.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Kids, House, Lovely

  "Exclusive: My lover by Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. July 5, 2005.

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• By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Men, Sharks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.74, Harvard University Press

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• The only care That I shall share Shall be the care of others, And on the road I'll halve the load Of overburdened brothers. I rather guess It's selfishness That drives me to such actions, For in this plan I find I can Forget my own distractions.

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Brother, Selfishness, Care

  John Kendrick Bangs (1920). “The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse for Every Day”

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• I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes each as on he goes, And neatly crumbles it, And turns his share of pebbly woes To stores of inner grit.

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Attitude, Men, Grit

  John Kendrick Bangs (1920). “The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse for Every Day”

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• No man is without his load of trouble.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Trouble

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• I carry around such a load of non-specific guilt that every time the metal detector beeps, I always have a wild fear that this trip I absent-mindedly packed a Luger.

  Dan Greenburg

  Guilt, Metal Detectors, Metals

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• Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load.

  Joni Mitchell

  Friendship, Heart, Humility

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• I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. But you pay corporation tax. If you're then taking it out and spending it on yourself, you have to pay more.

  Ken Livingstone

  Mean, Giving, Different

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• The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.

  Alastair Campbell

  Way, Politician, Weak

  "Would you have booed George Osborne at the Paralympics?" by Alastair Campbell and Danny Kelly, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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• You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

  Sam Mendes

  Lucky, Cost, Pressure

  "A Private, Interior Film". Interview with Stephen Short, www.cnn.com.

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• I've met Nicole Kidman, Elton John, loads of people.

  Allen Carr

  People, Mets, Nicole

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• I'm just experimenting with every different type of music you can imagine and seeing where my voice lies and what sounds best. I think when I do finally do the album it will be very eclectic - just loads of different stuff on it. That's what I am hoping.

  Charlotte Church

  Lying, Thinking, Voice

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• Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.

  Hope Davis

  Summer, Beach, New York

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

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• I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing.

  John Deacon

  Long, Plans, Bottom

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• Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.

  Greg Walden

  Home, Fire, Community

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• 'El Otro Lado' has heavy emphasis on the bass and loads of nice little touches and sounds you really notice on a big system.

  Subb-an

  Nice, Sound, Bass

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