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• I used to race at the YMCA in Crystal Lake, Illinois, they used to have a dirt track there, and there was also a track near Rockford, Illinois, that I would go to.

  Matt Skiba

  Lakes, Illinois, Race

  "Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and Blink-182 on staying young through BMX". Interview with David Anthony, music.avclub.com. May 27, 2015.

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• The naturally colored products aren't as bright as the synthetically colored products, they're not as attractive to consumers. But, you know, it's the kind of thing that consumers simply would get used to very quickly.

  Michael F. Jacobson

  Kind, Attractive, Consumers

  Source: www.npr.org

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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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• In the early days I'd be slaving over a mixing desk. I'm not a recording engineer but I used to mix the record. We used to do it all by ourselves. I just don't really want to do it anymore. I want somebody to do it for me. I want to concentrate on other things. That's been a big change, a learning curve. But no regrets, it's all part of life's rich tapestry.

  Stevie Jackson

  Regret, Curves, Mixing

  "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.

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• I was drawing professionally by the time I was 12. I used to do very detailed sort of photorealistic pen-and-ink work, and I burned out on it around, like, high school. And cartooning really got me back into drawing.

  Dan Povenmire

  School, Drawing, Ink

  "We Just Keep Trying to Beat Every Show With the Funny Stick Until It's Funny". Interview with Dana Stevens, www.slate.com. June 10, 2015.

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• City's effort to end homelessness among veterans is different than how things used to be in L.A.

  John Carlos Frey

  Cities, Effort, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The most nervous I've ever been was on a 250 pound music video which is the first thing I ever did. And I stepped on there with a directing partner, so I could blame him when everything went tits up. But since then my nerves have incrementally decreased so I'm not plagued by the same sense of nerves as I used to be.

  Guy Ritchie

  Pounds, Video, Nerves

  Source: collider.com

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• I always thought that Seth [Rogen] was a fun, caustic, bombastic, sweet, underdog-type of person that I would root for the way you used to root for Bill Murray or John Candy in "Stripes." Seth had something that very few people you encounter have: he had a writer's mind and he had his own comic point of view.

  Judd Apatow

  Sweet, Fun, Views

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Working with Jean-Claude is a lot of fun. Because he's a great actor who also happens to be a fighter. That combination doesn't usually come together anymore. Usually, you have to fight the stunt double and then act against the actor. In his case, you are fighting with a real guy. It takes a minute to get used to that. Because it doesn't happen any more.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Fun, Real, Fighting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• My dog didn't like me very much. My first dog, Dmitri, was a poodle. I used to think Dmitri was something I could play with and ride. I tried to ride a poodle. And then he bit me.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Dog, Thinking, Play

  "Marley & Me - Jennifer Aniston interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one - music, fashion, and art. I'm hitting it from all angles.

  ASAP Ferg

  Fashion, Art, Grace

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I remember when I had my show [The Chris Rock Show on HBO], I used to run my show. It was so hard to get people to bring sketches to me. No one had ever worked for a black person before. Even the black people hadn't worked for a black person. It literally took a month or two for everybody to know: I'm really running the show.

  Scott Raab

  Running, Two, Hbo

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've always had instruments around the house. He used to have a show like a 1950s rock and roll show with Little Richard music. They would do doo-wop songs and stuff like that.

  Bruno Mars

  Mother, Song, Dad

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.

  Alan Greenspan

  Political, Groups, Social

  "Senator Kerry speaks, &c." by Jay Nordlinger, www.nationalreview.com. November 01, 2006.

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• Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting.

  Anton Chekhov

  Mean, Goal, Achieve

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• The problem is that taxes aren’t used efficiently.

  Mian Muhammad Mansha

  Problem, Taxes

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• Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

  Douglas Hurd

  Giving, Tools, Slave

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• I'm a huge fan of Adam Sandler and used to have Adam Sandler nights when I was younger. And he's so funny on the set.

  Sophie Monk

  Night, Fans, Adam

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• There is an appearance of humility in the protestation that the truth is much greater than any one of us can grasp, but if this is used to invalidate all claims to discern the truth it is in fact an arrogant claim to a kind of knowledge which is superior to [all others]...We have to ask: 'What is the [absolute] vantage ground from which you claim to be able to relativize all the absolute claims these different scriptures make?

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Humility, Arrogant, Able

  Lesslie Newbigin (2013). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic”, p.225, SPCK

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• Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a graduation ceremony), to relate, to express love, and/or to establish a relationship. Ceremonies are the human way we have to signpost a deal such as a business merger, to trigger off a healthy grief process (such as in divorce or funeral ceremonies), to welcome another human being into the family. So Ceremonies have these excellent effects - they can be used further to announce intentions, to express loyalty and to reinforce a sense of identity.

  Dally Messenger

  Loyalty, Grief, Divorce

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• I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers used to give me other instruments to keep me busy, because I was more advanced than the other kids.

  Stefon Harris

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• I think it says something about our culture. We, maybe, need a massive therapy session so we can concentrate on what the real issues are. This contraceptive thing. My gosh, it’s so inexpensive. Back in my days, they used Bayer Aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn’t that costly.

  Foster Friess

  Real, Thinking, Issues

  "'Where Are the Women?': Lawmakers Walk Out on Contraception Rule Hearing After Female Witness Barred". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Juan González, www.democracynow.org. February 17, 2012.

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• So long as oil is used as a source of energy, when
  the energy cost of recovering a barrel of oil becomes
  greater than the energy content of the oil, production
  will cease no matter what the monetary price may
  be.

  M. King Hubbert

  Oil, Long, Energy

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• Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.

  Francois Rabelais

  Queens, Cheer, Sovereign

  Francois Rabelais (2006). “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Edition”, p.77, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at all anymore. All that remains is the vague feeling that it was charming, and these five words that are indivisibly bound together: a charming square at Meknes. ... I don't see anything any more: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Memories, Past, Squares

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

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