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• The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

  Oscar Wilde

  Years, Hard, Labour

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• I was lucky, I had support from Mum and Dad - they said as long as you work hard, anything is possible. I never thought past those two things - that I liked living in imaginary worlds and that it is possible to do that for a living.

  Harry Treadaway

  Dad, Hard Work, Past

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

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• On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play.

  Morgan Saylor

  Book, Average, Play

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• The world is split into two kinds of people, those who would go out for a drink with John Lennon, and those who`'d choose Paul McCartney... After The Beatles came back from India, Lennon wrote "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" and McCartney wrote "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da." End of argument.

  Paul Bettany

  Gun, People, India

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

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• I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.

  Ben Whishaw

  Two Sides, Typical, Sides

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

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• I don't trust compliments. I've been getting them for years. Sometimes I deserve them, sometimes I didn't. But generally when people give you compliments there's one of two things wrong with them. Either they're false, or what's worse is they're sincere. They really mean the compliment. And then they're offering you their loyalty. And I'm kind of a stingy... Well, I don't necessarily want to give all that loyalty back. So either way, let's skip the compliments.

  Norman Mailer

  Loyalty, Mean, Offering

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• I lost my mother two years ago to cancer. But the greatest gift she gave to me was showing me how to be a wonderful and loving mom to my two sons, even now that they are grown men.

  Carla Hall

  Mom, Mother, Cancer

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• I think food trucks are the new answer to American fast food. The idea of raising two or three million dollars and going through red tape to open a restaurant, there's lots of barriers to success. There's a really easy jumping place for food trucks. It's very hip and acceptable for new chefs to open a food truck first.

  Tyler Florence

  Thinking, Ideas, Jumping

  "Q&A With Tyler Florence, Host of the Food Network’s Great Food Truck Race". Interview with Sarah Bennett, www.dmagazine.com. November 30, 2012.

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• When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Writing, Style, Firsts

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.114

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• I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.

  Lisa Ann Walter

  Growing Up, Two Friends, Dancing

  "Dance Your Ass Off with Ruben and Lisa Ann Walter!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. September 2, 2009.

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• President Obama inherited a broken country mired in two wars, a financial crisis, a mortgage mess and more than we all probably even know about and has in my opinion brought us back from the brink. But I still see my friends in no better shape and the gap widening.

  Don Cheadle

  Country, War, Broken

  "Don Cheadle Says President Obama Should Have Been More ‘Gangster,’ Clarifies Comments". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2011.

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• Naps are the key to relieving stress. When you are working on two hours of sleep, the fact that cheese comes on something when you ordered it with no cheese is enough to send you crying under the covers for an hour.

  Keri Russell

  Stress, Sleep, Keys

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The drive of the story is sort of hinted at the beginning, is Joy and Sadness and those two characters. Especially Joy starting to understand that there's more to life than being happy. And so that's based on real life observations and things that we've learned as adults.

  Pete Docter

  Real, Character, Sadness

  "Inside Out and Lava: Sneak Peek". Interview with Tara Salinas, www.trippinwithtara.com. March 12, 2015.

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• I feel like it's my responsibility to honestly cover a lot of subjects in part because I have two little girls and I really want them when they grow up to have a voice.

  Carre Otis

  Girl, Growing Up, Responsibility

  "Carré Otis Talks Mickey Rourke And Orgasms In ‘Beauty Disrupted’". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2011.

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• There are two things that create opportunities. One is being involved with something that makes money, and the other is winning awards. And the reason that winning the awards creates the opportunities is because it gives the people who are selling the picture the opportunity to make more money.

  Kevin Bacon

  Winning, Opportunity, Awards

  “Piers Morgan Tonight”, www.cnn.com. June 10, 2011.

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• Two, let's all stop smoking blunts; let's smoke out of papers. Ladies, you all should just love me. Let's all have a beautiful year, let's get this money.

  Rick Ross

  Beautiful, Years, Smoking

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• I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isnt always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

  Regina King

  Children, Divorce, Son

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My mum said she remembers me asking her if she'd take me to ballet lessons when I was about two and a half. She said I could barely speak, and yet was asking for ballet lessons.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Ballet, Asking, Half

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• There were two auditions for The Social Network, one with Aaron Sorkin and one with David Fincher. I was a nervous wreck. I was like, Okay, how do I hold the paper without my hands making it shake?

  Armie Hammer

  Hands, Paper, Wrecks

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• An ideal day starts with putting on a good, smart, fun show where I learn something and ends with me fending off atomic knee drops from my two kids in our no-holds-barred pillow fight/steel cage matches. They are a ruthless tag team.

  Willie Geist

  Fun, Smart, Team

  "10 questions for new third hour TODAY co-anchor Willie Geist". Interview with Danika Fears, www.today.com. November 12, 2012.

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• The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to its progress. The rising enrollment of women in the paid labor force is a straightforward consequence of the industrial revolution of two hundred years ago.

  Barbara Bergmann

  War, Book, Labor Force

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• There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, World, Spirit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.254, Harvard University Press

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• Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Class, Firsts, Behavior

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2360, Delphi Classics

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• Two thousand years from now they'll still be hearing about Elvis Presley.

  Wolfman Jack

  Years, Hearing, Thousand

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• Poor little Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan... If those little girls slept with as many men as they say in the tabloids, why their little butts would have more fingerprints than the FBI! I kinda feel sorry for them. We should give those two a break.

  Dolly Parton

  Girl, Sorry, Men

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