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• Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Years, Use, Actors

  "America’s Most Serious Twentysomething Actor". Interview with Ramin Setoodeh, www.newsweek.com. March 30, 2006.

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• I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America.

  Al Gore

  America, President, Als

  "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• With me, traveling for work is arriving at the airport, checking into the hotel, leaving the hotel the next morning at 4 or 5 to do something like 'The Jimmy and Jackie Captain Crazy Morning Zoo,' doing a bunch of those in a row, then going back to the hotel, and then finally going to the club.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Morning, Zoos, Crazy

  "Gillbert Gottfried: Travels of a miserable guy". "Celebrity travel", www.nbcnews.com. April 8, 2008.

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• I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.

  Ellie Goulding

  Brother, Guitar, Passionate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm really proud of 'Bright Lights' because I was still in the mind frame of my first album when I was putting it together, but next time I want to display something different. I don't want to be as young, immature and all about boys!

  Ellie Goulding

  Boys, Light, Mind

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

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• I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sports, Winning, Tennis

  Interview with Victoria Coren, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. July 25, 2012.

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• Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

  Stanislav Grof

  Vision, Encounters, Transition

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• I thought Marcus was going to be in my life forever. Then I thought I was wrong. Now he’s back. But this time I know what’s certain: Marcus will be gone again, and back again and again and again because nothing is permanent. Especially people. Strangers become friends. Friends become lovers. Lovers become strangers. Strangers become friends once more, and over and over. Tomorrow, next week, fifty years from now, I know I’ll get another one-word postcard from Marcus, because this one doesn’t have a period signifying the end of the sentence. Or the end of anything at all.

  Megan McCafferty

  Love, Next Week, Years

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.1233, Crown

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• Next thing you know she'll be on the bus and selling T-shirts in the parking lot, showing off her boobs to get in the stage door." "At least she has boobs to show," Jess said. "I have boobs," Chloe said, pointing to her chest. "Just because they're not weighing me down doesn't mean they're not substantial." "Okay, B cup," Jess said, taking a sip of her drink. "I have boobs!" Chloe said again, a bit too loudly--she'd already had a couple of minibottles at the Spot. "My boobs are great, goddammit. You know that? They're fantastic! My boobs are amazing.

  Sarah Dessen

  Couple, Mean, Doors

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.100, Penguin

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• Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.

  Virginia Woolf

  Stories, Substance, Goes On

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1428, Delphi Classics

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• It's not something to complain about, but just the major difference between college and the pros is that in college you're guaranteed four to five years so long as you don't do anything criminally and in the pros you're guaranteed one day because you can be cut the next.

  Robert Griffin III

  Cutting, College, Differences

  "Robert 'RG3' Griffin III on Playing Football in a Political Town, Dream Pickup Game With Obama". Interview With Chris Moody, abcnews.go.com. November 28, 2012.

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• For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.

  Chris Hadfield

  Years, Space Flight, Two

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• You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam.

  Alexander Haig

  War, Battle, President

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• I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!

  Natalie Portman

  Summer, Space, Dying

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• There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Stupid, Doors, Intellectual

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• An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Careers, Interesting, Long

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• Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Morning, Boss, Firsts

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• You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.

  Rand Paul

  Home, Enough Already, Government

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• I say: If you don't know how to cook, I'm sure you have at least one friend who knows how to cook. Well, call that friend and say, 'Can I come next time and can I bring some food and can I come an hour or two hours ahead and watch you and help you?'

  Jacques Pepin

  Two, Watches, Helping

  "Chef Jacques Pepin Eats Airport Hot Dogs, Rarely Spends More than $12 on Wine". The Bon Appétit Magazine Interview, www.bonappetit.com. November 14, 2011.

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• All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of allows them to express it... And if you're successful, you can take more money. You can expand your capacity, reach next level of capacity, and so on.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Successful, Creative, Energy

  "NOW" on PBS, www.pbs.org.

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• And here's the fact: the fact is it doesn't solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, 'Look, every penny you make next year the government's going to take it from you,' it still doesn't solve the debt.

  Marco Rubio

  Government, Years, People

  "Sen. Rubio: 'We Don't Need New Taxes, We Need New Taxpayers'". www.realclearpolitics.com. July 7, 2011.

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• Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.

  Sarah Zettel

  Doors, Way, Wonder

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• I've definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it's a little more raw.

  Bruno Mars

  Band, Littles, Kind

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• When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

  George C. Marshall

  Motivational, Positive, Objectivity

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

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• I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I'm never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.

  Chris Martin

  Gloves, Minutes, Spats

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