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• The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices.

  Amy Lee

  Sexy, Dog, Powerful

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• There is no way to understand the public reaction to the sight of a Freak smashing a coconut with a hammer on the hood of a white Cadillac in a Safeway parking lot unless you actually do it, and I tell you it's tense.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Food, Sight, White

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, Simon and Schuster

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• In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds.

  Deborah Tannen

  Mind, Doe, Dialogue

  Deborah Tannen (2012). “The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.

  Ruth Gordon

  Thinking, Faces, Facts

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• I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely smashing for three solid years, but he never guessed. Then he had one on me but nothing came of it. I'm not going to regret that; it could have ruined my life.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Crush, Regret, Blood

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• I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Creative, Hungry

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.131, Anchor

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• I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Book, Names, Legendary

  A letter to his wife Polly in October 1938. "Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard" by Russell Miller, p. 81, 1987.

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• I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I've never been able to make it through. And I love the Smashing Pumpkins, they're one of my favorite bands ever, but I've never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through.

  John Wozniak

  Love, Sadness, Band

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• You know, there’s a philosopher who says, “As you live your life, it appears to be anarchy and chaos, and random events, non-related events, smashing into each other and causing this situation or that situation, and then, this happens, and it’s overwhelming, and it just looks like what in the world is going on ? And later, when you look back at it, it looks like a finely crafted novel. But at the time, it don’t.

  Joe Walsh

  Live Your Life, Events, Looks

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• The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was "Deeds not Words," and the film reflects that with a number of big set pieces, from the smashing of windows in central London to a riot at the Houses of Parliament.

  Sarah Gavron

  Numbers, House, Pieces

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The Great Society went wrong for three major reasons. First, the self-organization the Johnson administration promoted turned out to be not the pooling of family and community resources into shops and businesses, but political pressure for government handouts. Second, the Great Society failed to anticipate the perverse side-effects of handing money out to people who have done nothing to earn it. Third, while the Great Society was showering money on the poor, the Supreme Court was with childlike glee smashing to bits traditional methods of maintaining law and order.

  David Frum

  Self, Order, Law

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• Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.

  Tom Stoppard

  Running, Writing, Glasses

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• A group of protesters who are very unhappy at the rapid expansion of Starbucks have been repeatedly smashing the windows of a Starbucks store in Maine. Customers say it's been really inconvenient because, several times now, they've had to use the Starbucks across the street.

  Conan O'Brien

  Unhappy, Expansion, Groups

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• This goes out to the followers of the three Abrahamic religions: To the Jews, Christians, and Muslims. It's just a little thing, really. But do you think that when you're done smashing up the world and blowing each other to bits and demanding special privileges while you're at it... do you think the rest of us could have our planet back?

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Christian, Thinking, Special

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• When I cannot get that moment of truth where you feel yourself opening up like a flower, I absolutely loathe the bloody camera. I can just feel this black hole eyeing me, sucking me in, and I feel like smashing it to smithereens.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Flower, Opening Up, Black

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• Now liberals compare their every riot, every traffic blockage, every Starbucks-window-smashing street protest to the civil rights movement -- which was only necessary because of them.

  Ann Coulter

  Rights, Movement, Window

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• I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.

  Eddie Marsan

  Glasses, People, Age

  "Eddie Marsan: 'I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience'". Interview with Cath Clarke, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2011.

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• When I lived in New York, there wasn't as much TV or film around. I got asked to do a couple of indie films, just based on me being from The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle. I did a couple of indie movies from Japan and one from Canada, and I thought it was an exciting, fun thing to do. I had a great time doing it, it was just that, in New York, there really wasn't as much. My studio in New York closed, so I moved out to L.A. and just started looking into composing as another thing to do, as a musician. I like it a lot. It's fun and it's a different way of thinking about music.

  James Iha

  New York, Couple, Fun

  "James Iha on Scoring James Franco’s ‘Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?’". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 17, 2016.

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• You've seen [Doanld Trump] come out with a lot more specifics. He's not in hiding or smashing BlackBerry or BleachBit himself to death like we've seen Hillary do or Hillary [Clinton] throwing her stuff, you know, under the bus. She's not showing presidential leadership qualities.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Presidential, Quality, Stuff

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In some ways, Trump is just going to continue the trend: by continuing the norm-smashing behaviour that Republicans used in opposition.

  Jonathan Chait

  Behaviour, Trends, Way

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I remember my parents yelling at each other and at me from an early age, and I remember a lot of things smashing. I try to look for the happy memories from the brief time my parents were married, and I can't really recall that. From the start things were messed up, and I just kept moving through the years and trying to pick out the little bits of evidence that would help me prove to myself that it wasn't my doing. But it took finding out somebody really does love me, who's not my parents or a relative, to really know that I was loveable.

  Jason Diamond

  Memories, Moving, Yelling

  Source: therumpus.net

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• All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Men, Hands, Desire

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• If I had five million pounds I'd start a radio station because something needs to be done. It would be nice to turn on the radio and hear something that didn't make you feel like smashing up the kitchen and strangling the cat.

  Joe Strummer

  Nice, Cat, Kitchen

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• One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.

  Iris Murdoch

  Lying, People, Easy

  Iris Murdoch (1977). “Henry and Cato”, Viking Pr

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• The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority."

  Walter Karp

  Crush, Creativity, School

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