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• I used to stay up very late at night, much later than I probably should have for such a youngster, and I used to watch very old black-and-white movies with, you know, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, but I remember watching them thinking 'I could do that'... Even though I wasn't inclined at all to actually become an actress. I mean, that wasn't something that was... in the stars for me, no pun intended.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Stars, Mean, Black And White

  Interview on Inside the Actors Studio, 2007.

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• Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

  Ray Charles

  Race, Years, Rhythm And Blues

  "Show 55 - Crammer: A lively cram course on the history of rock and some other things". March 8, 1968.

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• The realization that American power could and should be used for the defense of pluralism and as a punishment for fascism came to me in Sarajevo a year or two later... That was an early quarrel between me and many of my Nation colleagues, and it was also the first time I found myself in the same trench as people like Paul Wolfowitz and Jeane Kirkpatrick: a shock I had to learn to get over. The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Real, Party, Thinking

  Interview with Jamie Glazov, historynewsnetwork.org. December 23, 2003.

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• I don't know what my fans are going to think. It's definitely not what they're used to from me.

  Bill Murray

  Thinking, Fans, Knows

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

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• Lincoln, they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart.

  Barack Obama

  Heart, Democracies Have, Democracy

  Remarks by the President in a Town Hall Meeting in Decorah, Iowa, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. August 15, 2011.

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• Constable himself knew the value of such studies, for he rarely parted with them. He used to say of his studies and pictures that he had no objection to part with the corn, but not with the field that grew it.

  John Constable

  Corn, Fields, Study

  "A Century of Painters of the English School, vol. II". Book by Richard and Samuel Redgrave, 1866.

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• We all profess to believe when we're told that this world should be used merely as a preparation for the next; and yet there is something so cold and comfortless in the theory that we do not relish the prospect even for our children.

  Anthony Trollope

  Children, Believe, Preparation

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works”, p.21, 谷月社

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• In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what kind of religion and how is it used? Freud was in error when he held that religion is per se a compulsion neurosis. Some religion is and some is not.

  Rollo May

  Errors, Personality, Neurosis

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.144, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

  Bel Kaufman

  Distance, Perspective, Sense Of Humor

  BEL KAUFMAN (1964). “UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE”

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• Protestations of impartiality I shall make none. Theyare always useless and are besides perfect nonsense, when used bya news-monger.

  William Cobbett

  Perfect, News, Useless

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• No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.

  Elizabeth I

  Pain, Player, Cities

  1572 Royal proclamation, banning football from the streets of London.

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• Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the very loftiest human creations are seen to derive from humble origins and functions, what needs revision is not our esteem for these creations but our notion of nobility.

  Robert Nozick

  Art, Humble, Needs

  Robert Nozick (1994). “The Nature of Rationality”, p.181, Princeton University Press

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• Whoever makes something having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process (transferring some of his holdings for these cooperating factors), is entitled to it. The situation is not one of something's getting made, and there being an open question of who is to get it. Things come into the world already attached to people having entitlements over them.

  Robert Nozick

  People, World, Entitlement

  Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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• The world is your oyster when you are successful. That was when I was getting scripts. I was planning for this. I like this business. Parts of it I love, and I didn't want it to just end. The further you get away from your success, the less your phone rings. The next thing you know, it's 20 years later and you're in a mall going, "Remember when Al and I used to do something like this.

  Tim Allen

  Successful, Phones, Oysters

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• Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.

  Malcolm Cowley

  Years, Woods, Brooks

  Quoted in Pete Hamill A Drinking Life (1994).

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• I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would be problems of tyranny, of injustice, of nations crossing frontiers and that injustice and tyranny should not be tolerated and should be fought and resisted, but the one thing that must not be used to solve that problem is war. Because war is inevitably the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. And that fact overwhelms whatever moral cause is somewhere buried in the history of that war.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Numbers, People

  Howard Zinn (2012). “Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009”, p.108, Haymarket Books

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• I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25.

  Wendy Cope

  Thinking, Mad, Lambs

  1986 'Triolet'. 0 See Lamb 486:25.

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• I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can't just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it's really in how the technology is used. What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we're going.

  Alan Lightman

  Technology, Thinking, Reflection

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• It's lovely that the Hollywood stars are crossing over to Broadway.... There used to be such a dividing line in the country between Hollywood and the theatre and that's just melting away. It's just wonderful right now!

  Julie Andrews

  Country, Stars, Melting Away

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• I don't sing the way I used to, so I'm doing everything I can to put the word out that they shouldn't expect that.

  Julie Andrews

  Way, I Can

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• I used to believe that if my career was going great, then I was not entitled to a great personal life. Well, I've stopped thinking that way. I believe I can have it all.

  Halle Berry

  Believe, Thinking, Careers

  "Halle, Them's the Breaks". The Advertiser, April 01, 200.

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• Football used to be my god but no longer is. I still love it, I'm still aggressive, I still want to be very successful at it, I want to win a lot of football games. And my job is to be the best football player in the world, because it affords me a life; it pays, it's my job, and so it hasn't dulled my senses for the game or the love or the great excitement I get from the game. It's just that I'm very much at peace with myself because of my faith.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Jobs, Successful

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• A flight from London carrying the artist we all used to know as Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, was forced to make an emergency landing in Bangor, Maine after his name showed up on a terrorist no-fly list. I tell you, it's a real success story in the war on terror. You know, we finally got the guy that wrote "Peace Train.

  Cat Stevens

  Real, War, Cat

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• I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.

  Eric Idle

  Smart, Boys, Groups

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I used to work in jobs I hated because I needed the money to buy a guitar. I know what it feels like to be depressed. On the other hand, I also know what it feels like to have money, to be successful, to be independent, but I can tell you that money and success never solve your problems.

  Chris Cornell

  Jobs, Independent, Successful

  Interview with Gabriella for NY Rock Magazine, October 1, 1999.

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