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• They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.

  Bob Dylan

  Work, Congratulations, Race

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.689, Simon and Schuster

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• People will pay for great services. They said they wouldn't pay 99 cents for a song but they did. We've always believed that. When you go to work, you don't work for free; nobody works for free. Nobody can say, "I want to work for free." Nobody says that.

  Eddy Cue

  Song, People, Want

  "Jimmy Iovine, Eddy Cue Talk Filling the 'Hole' With Apple Music". Interview with Steve Knopper, www.rollingstone.com. June 8, 2015.

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• The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’!

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Views, History, Church

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• I used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds of people. They tore me down because I was too tall. They said "How tall are you?" "6'5"." "Next."

  Dolph Lundgren

  Engineering, People, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It was one of those times when you can feel the air in a room. Everything stood still. I can remember the T-shirt I was wearing and the bag I was carrying. I don't think I breathed for 15 minutes. It was a devastating moment. They said they wanted me to experience more things. OK. I began contemplating things. Maybe I should take LSD or become a hooker. I left Juilliard and was just meandering and drifting for a while. Thank God I had support from my family and close friends. Bad times.

  Stephanie Zimbalist

  Thinking, Air, Support

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• I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.

  Jimmy Carr

  Book, Reading, Parent

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• I think that Billie (Jean King) and Zina (Garrison), they have a whole lot of experience. Even if I don't quite agree with something or have a different way of doing it this week, whatever they said, I did it right away and I found out that it was correct. I think that's helped a lot...I'm having fun. I had a lot of fun out there. Sometimes I was ready to smile -- but I knew I'd lose focus -- because I was doing things that I'd done in practice and we talked about. I was ready to laugh and give someone a high-five, but it wasn't time for that.

  Venus Williams

  Kings, Fun, Thinking

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• What can I expect here? You know the fairy tale about the man who died, don’t you? He was waiting in Eternity to find out what the Lord had decided to do with him. He waited and waited, for one year, ten years, a hundred years. He begged and pleaded for a decision. Finally he couldn’t bear the waiting any longer. Then they said to him: ‘What do you think you’re waiting for? You’ve been in Hell for a long time already.

  Anna Seghers

  Men, Thinking, Years

  Anna Seghers (2013). “Transit”, p.186, New York Review of Books

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• I don't believe in Gods and devils. I think it's man-made stories to try and help people understand where all this came from. They said 'Where did the world come from if there's no God', 'Where did life come from'. Just say 'I don't know'.  Don't say some guy made a man and a woman. You have no business doing that, you know what I mean? And then He got mad and flooded the whole world; told Noah to build an arc. These are terrible stories.

  Jacque Fresco

  Business, Believe, Mean

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• Out of pure spite we pretty much always said the opposite of what the other said, no matter what they said, only to mark distance. That's how we ended up calling ourselves Satanists, despite the fact that we absolutely were not. There was not a single Satanist in the whole Black Metal scene in Norway in 1991-92.

  Varg Vikernes

  Distance, Opposites, Black

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• I said, 'Well, how much space do I have?' And they said, 'Well, you know, it's the Internet.'

  Maira Kalman

  Space, Internet, Said

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• Everybody told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place they said I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.

  Persis Khambatta

  Careers, Hollywood, Bigs

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• I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system.

  Johnny Isakson

  Mother, Night, President

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• On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, RT, re-tweet, that person's name, and then what they said before. And it's a way of essentially saying, I'm not saying this, but my friend said this and I thought this was interesting.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Names, Interesting, Want

  "Twitter's Impact On Iran Protests Examined". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. June 19, 2009.

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• Like, when we did Parliament and Funkadelic and Bootsy, it was actually one thing. But there were so many people that you could split them up into different groups. And then, when we went out on tour and they [the record companies] would see us all up there together - we had five, six guitars playing at one time, not including the bass! -, they said: "Wait a minute, that's just one whole group, selling different names!" But it wasn't - we had enough people in the group that each member would have a section to be another group. So now we're finally starting to get them to understand that.

  Gary Snyder

  Guitar, Names, People

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• I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve niggers here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Rivers, Ohio, Black History

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Sep 20, 2012

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• Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who talks funny talk!'

  Charlie Parker

  Guy, Comedian, Bops

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• When Boston and Orlando told me they were going to pick me at 21 and 22, I figured I don't need to do a workout for a second -round team. Boston and Orlando never drafted me because they said I was too skinny and no European point guard will make it in the League.

  Tony Parker

  Workout, Team, Boston

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• Twenty-six years ago the highest court in this land did an incredible thing. They issued a Supreme Court decision that really boils down to one simple and profoundly evil idea: They said that our unborn children have no rights that the rest of us are bound to respect. And when they made that decision they unleashed on America an unbelievable event that has undermined who we are and what we believe.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, Believe, Simple

  "Bauer officially jumps into 2000 race". www.cnn.com. April 21, 1999.

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• Seek the truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues: courage, zest and modesty. The ancients put that thought in the form of a prayer. They said, “From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth, from the laziness that is content with half truth, from the arrogance that thinks it has all truth – O God of truth, deliver us.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Prayer, Thinking, Zest

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• Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!'
  But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!'

  Emil Zatopek

  Genius, Fool, Firsts

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• They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me

  Pierre Cardin

  Names, Said, Saved

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• Love is infectious. You know, God is infectious-God flowing through us and us being little-baby creators and s--t. But His energy and His love and what He wants us to have as people and the way He wants us to love each other, that is infectious. Like they said in Step Brothers: Never lose your dinosaur. This is the ultimate example of a person never losing his dinosaur. Meaning that even as I grew in cultural awareness and respect and was put higher in the class system in some way for being this musician, I never lost my dinosaur.

  Kanye West

  Baby, Brother, Crazy

  "Kanye West: A Brand-New Ye". Interview with Zach Baron, www.gq.com. July 20, 2014.

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• Our German Fatherland to which I hope will be granted... to become in the future as closely united, as powerful, and as authoritative as once the Roman world-empire was, and that, just as in the old times they said, Civis romanus sum, hereafter, at some time in the future, they will say, I am a German citizen.

  Wilhelm II

  Powerful, Citizens, World

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• I am a black man
  Who was born café con leche
  I sneaked into a party, to which I had not been invited.
  And I got kicked out. They threw me out.
  When I went back to have fun with the black girls
  All together they said 'Maelo, go back to your white girls'
  And they kicked me out. They threw me out.

  Ismael Rivera

  Girl, Fun, Party

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