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• Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and won a two-week vacation--all expenses paid--wherever he wanted to go. Any place in the world: Mongolia, Easter Island, the Turkish Riviera . . . but his choice was Salt Lake City, and that's where he went. Is this man a registered voter? Has he come to grips with the issues? Has he bathed in the blood of the lamb?

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Easter, Men, Vacation

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into a bottomless well, crossing your fingers and hoping when you pull it out on its flimsy fishing wire it hasn't been gnawed to bones by nameless beasts below.

  Isaac Marion

  Sleep, Fishing, Mind

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• I'm such a fan of Deadwood. I love the characters in that. They're such wonderful characters. I'm a fan of The Wire. Those are all heavily character-based shows.

  Dustin Clare

  Character, Fans, Wonderful

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• There's going to be no more digital enhancements or digital additions to anything based on any film I direct. I'm not going to do any corrections digitally to even wires that show... If 1941 comes on Blu-ray I'm not going to go back and take the wires out because the Blu-ray will bring the wires out that are guiding the airplane down Hollywood Blvd. At this point right now I think letting movies exist in the era, with all the flaws and all of the flourishes, is a wonderful way to mark time and mark history.

  Steven Spielberg

  Airplane, Thinking, Rays

  "AICN Exclusive: Spielberg speaks! Jaws Blu-Ray in the works with no 'digital corrections!'". Interview with Quint, www.aintitcool.com. June 3, 2011.

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• Graphic Design is the communication framework through which these messages about what the world is now, and what we should aspire to. It's the way they reach us. The designer has an enormous responsibility. Those are the people, you know, putting their wires into our heads.

  Rick Poynor

  Communication, Responsibility, People

  "Helvetica". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Life is horrible, but it is not relentlessly black from wire to wire. You can sit down and hear a Mozart symphony, or you can watch the Marx Brothers, and this will give you a pleasant escape for a while. And that is about the best that you can do.

  Woody Allen

  Brother, Symphony, Giving

  "Woody Allen's World: Whatever Works". Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

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• Why? You want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin bubbles and peels off, roll in coarse salt, then pull on long underwear woven from spun glass and razor wire. Over that goes your regular clothes, as long as they are tight.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Glasses, Two, Clothes

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.124, Penguin

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• You could also "request" to be locked into the seclusion room. Not many people made that request. You had to "request" to get out too. A nurse would look through the chicken wire and decide if you were ready to come out. Somewhat like looking at a cake through the glass of the oven door.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Glasses, Doors, Cake

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.46, Vintage

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• The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.

  Seth Godin

  Life, Sweet, Art

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• It will do us little good to wire the world if we limit our vision. It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circuit our souls.

  Tom Brokaw

  Soul, Vision, World

  Emory University Commencement Address, delivered 16 May 2005

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• When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.

  Art Garfunkel

  Home, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Song Talk Interview". Interview with Paul Zollo, www.artgarfunkel.com. 1990.

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• I could kill Vino for all this doping crap. Strangle him slowly with piano wire just like they do in the Italian gangster movies. I bet I could get Aru to buy the wire.

  Vincenzo Nibali

  Italian, Cycling, Piano

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• the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Relief, Ends, Certain

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• I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life.

  Norman Mailer

  Freedom, Feelings, Intellectual

  "Mailer Tells a Lot. Not All, but a Lot.; His Longest Love Affair Is With the U.S." by Bernard Weinraub, www.nytimes.com. October 4, 2000.

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• Is our time up and on to the next fire / Got my fingers burnt and cut into the wire.

  Kim Wilde

  Cutting, Fire, Next

  Song: Shangri-La, 1984

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• I have never written a musical. I have never written a weird, interactive piece of theater. I wanted to do something that would be disturbing. It will be disturbing theater with songs. There will be no people on wires. That's probably the next one of those things on my bucket list of things that I need to write before I get hit by that car.

  Neil Gaiman

  Song, Writing, Car

  "Neil Gaiman Talks AMERICAN GODS, DOCTOR WHO, Writing a Musical, Ray Bradbury, China and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 30, 2011.

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• This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

  O. Henry

  Spring, Cities, Soul

  O. Henry (2015). “The Gift of the Magi and Other New York Stories: The Skylight Room, The Voice of The City, The Cop and the Anthem, A Retrieved Information, The Last Leaf, The Ransom of Red Chief, The Trimmed Lamp and more”, p.77, e-artnow

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• As far as I'm concerned ... the Universe is a junk yard, with everything overpriced. I am through poking around in the junk heaps, looking for bargains. Every so-called bargain ... has been connected by fine wires to a dynamite bouquet.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Junk, Yards, Bouquets

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel”, Laurel

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• We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Jewels, Ems

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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• I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.

  Gordon Bell

  Father, Skills, Firsts

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• The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires?

  Bruce Chatwin

  Running, Children, Book

  Bruce Chatwin (1997). “Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989”, p.11, Penguin

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• The rope connecting two men on a mountain is more than nylon protection; it is an organic thing that transmits subtle messages of intent and disposition from man to man; it is an extension of the tactile senses, a psychological bond, a wire along which currents of communication flow.

  Trevanian

  Communication, Men, Two

  Trevanian (2005). “The Eiger Sanction: A Novel”, p.255, Crown

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• The [CIA] Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media operations around the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio and television stations, and wire services, and has partially controlled many more.

  Michael Parenti

  Agency, Publishing House, Media

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• Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show; Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire.

  Winston Churchill

  Moving, Hands, Secret

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• It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.

  Tom Brokaw

  Heart, Technology, Soul

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