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• There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, "This is worthless. I'm wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this." It happens all the time.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Feelings, Different, Way

  Interview with Joshua Wolf Shenk, www.motherjones.com. May 2005.

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• I didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it would be fun to start a band. None of us actually played any instruments so the band never quite got off the ground, BUT it made me go home and ask my parents for piano lessons. That was really the beginning for me. Once I started, it was all I wanted to do.

  Andrew Hollander

  Fun, Home, Years

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• You also wonder if a restaurant placed an ad that read, "Only homeless need apply," would they get fined? Probably not. But if they said, "No homeless apply," they would be transient bigots. For as bureaucrats use language to punish the lawful, they use tolerance to coddle the troubled.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Tolerance, Needs, Use

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It's great that there are so many different kinds of books for kids and adults to choose from. I think an eclectic reader is the best kind of reader to be, which would be why I was always so satisfied to hear that kids read the Baby-Sitters Club books and then went on and discovered other authors and other genres.

  Ann M. Martin

  Baby, Book, Kids

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Nobody is perfect. I don't think it's the most scathing indictment of anybody. It's pretty innocuous. [Miral] is just the story of one family and one girl, living in that part of the world, and that's what goes on over there. I thought that maybe it would be informative and useful for people to know more about it.

  Julian Schnabel

  Girl, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• God knows America would be the greatest again if she operated like the Nugent family. No takers, no whiners, no gangsters, no dopers, no drunks, no criminals, no bloodsuckers, no excuse makers, no crybabies, no punks, no Obama supporters.

  Ted Nugent

  Obama Supporters, America, Criminals

  "Ted Nugent Interview: Our First American Rock and Roll President?". Interview with Ray Shasho, www.classicrockmusicwriter.com. August 4, 2013.

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• If someone was to tell you that you were a witch, I think that it would be somewhat like, "You've got to be kidding me! I'm out of here! You're crazy!"

  Britt Robertson

  Crazy, Thinking, Witch

  "Britt Robertson Interview THE SECRET CIRCLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2011.

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• What the internet has done is destroy film criticism. I would never have guessed that the profession of film criticism would be going the way of the dodo bird.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Bird, Criticism, Done

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• I have absolutely no skill set that would suggest that I would be able to do directing. [...] If I were able to, I'd like to get into that.

  Megan Fox

  Skills, Able, Ifs

  "JONAH HEX Press Conference: Read or Listen to Josh Brolin, Megan Fox, Director Jimmy Hayward and Producer Andrew Lazar". collider.com. June 15, 2010.

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• I'm not at all contemporary, not even modern, and the fact that I would be so quaintly attracted to that wrestling rule makes me, I suppose, seem all the more old-fashioned. I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

  John Irving

  Believe, Wrestling, Stories

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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• We can't know in advance what history is going to say, but I would be utterly amazed and surprised if this entire adventure, this entire Iraqi invasion from the beginning of its inception, were not judged to be an utter failure and a terrible, terrible thing for the world.

  Robert Reich

  Iraq, World, Invasion

  Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. August 22, 2007.

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• I do have a website that's updated regularly. It's a great way for potential clients to check out my work anonymously. As most of my web visitors would be interested in my work, not my history, the equipment I use, my "philosophy", etc., it's my work that's predominantly featured on the site.

  John Keltonic

  Philosophy, Use, Way

  "A Conversation With Prolific Music Composer & Producer John Keltonic". Interview with Norm Goldman, www.bookpleasures.com. July 21, 2015.

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• I don't know what would be antithetical to do on the other side, maybe a Tyler Perry movie or something. No, there are very few comedies that live in between that. Or you're doing some kid thing like a Jim Carrey movie with animated something that's like that. Yeah, I've wanted to do them. I like doing them. I did Talk to Me. That was pretty much a comedy.

  Don Cheadle

  Kids, Sides, Comedy

  "Don Cheadle Talks IRON MAN 3, THE AVENGERS, HOUSE OF LIES, and His Miles Davis Biopic". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 22, 2011.

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• I do occasionally wonder, if you were to bring to life one of those young men who sacrificed themselves in what was advertised to them as the Great War, and the war to end all war, and show them that we're still engaged in armed conflict in the same area, I'm not sure that they would be pleased about what their sacrifices amounted to.

  Russell Crowe

  War, Sacrifice, Men

  "THE WATER DIVINER: Russell Crowe Talks Directing, Story Selection, and His Career". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 22, 2015.

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• A lot of times people will have after-parties or try and host an event for comedians, and they misunderstand us. They think it should be wild and crazy, or loud music, and comedians are typically pretty mellow people that just want to talk to each other. I think it would be highly unusual to find comedians who want to be at a loud, crowded party.

  Tig Notaro

  Crazy, Party, Thinking

  "Tig Notaro: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry". Interview with Sydney Brownstone, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2013.

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• I believe that everybody, whether you believe in the afterlife or the chance of a near-death experience and you come back and you see someone [on the other side] - whether that has happened or not, I don't know, but certainly everyone has thought about it at some point or another in time. It's a fantasy that if there is anything out there like that, it would be just terrific, but that remains to be seen.

  Clint Eastwood

  Believe, Afterlife, Sides

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• Anyone with a long-term partner, anyone with a long-term lover, if that lover dies, you could easily see yourself in a situation where you couldn't see your future and you would be living entirely in the past. It's about that loss.

  Tom Ford

  Loss, Past, Long

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• There are countless space activities that would be no less exciting than the moon missions were, I have no doubt. The search for life on Mars, for example.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Space, Doubt

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think Harry Potter's very important. Every opportunity I will get for the rest of my life, I would not have got if it wasn't for Harry Potter. And it would be height of ingratitude if I was ever anything but proud to be associated with these films.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Opportunity, Thinking, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• I realized that being an actor was something I never owned up to, in a weird way. I would be a hostess or a waitress or a house restorer before I would consider myself an actor, because I never thought I was good enough.

  Sandra Bullock

  House, Actors, Way

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• I would not like to live in the past because you don't get anesthetic when you go to the dentist. You don't get antibiotics. You don't get the things that you are used to now, cell phones and televisions and things that are very convenient. You don't want that. But, it would be fun if you could, every now and then, just meet a friend for lunch at Maxim's in Paris in 1900, or go back to 1870 just for a couple of hours, take a walk in the park, and then come right back to Broadway.

  Woody Allen

  Couple, Fun, Past

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I think if I had been a man, I would be richer. That hurts. But at the same time, I have to keep fighting and not think too much about "what if," because that doesn't lead you anywhere.

  Isabel Coixet

  Hurt, Fighting, Men

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Right and responsibility go hand in hand. You can't give rights to those who are not responsible. If you want to let your canary out of the cage, the first thing you would do is to kick your cat out of the house. This does not mean you don't love your cat, but he has no right to stay in the house because he can't act responsibly. It would be foolish to wait until he kills the canary and then punish him. You already know the cat can't be trusted. The problem with Muslims is that they too can't be trusted and can't act responsibly.

  Ali Sina

  Love You, Mean, Cat

  Source: myislam.dk

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• One thing is to have the protection of human rights for homosexuals and quite something else is this promotion of indecency. It would be immoral and unethical to deny the homosexuals their human rights. But it is also immoral to consider disorders as normal. None of these deviances are biological. They are acquired by fantasizing about them.

  Ali Sina

  Rights, Deviance, Normal

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Trying to avert foreclosures, once you can't just force the banks to do it as a condition of getting aid, means that you have to put some public money into it or you have to do other things that are politically unpopular. From the macroeconomic standpoint there is overwhelming need to help people reduce what they owe so that we don't get the foreclosures and we don't get people kicked out of their homes. On the other hand, there is great resistance politically to helping people, not all of whom would be worth recipients of the help.

  Barney Frank

  Home, Mean, Hands

  "The Political Scene: Barney's Frank Opinions". Interview with Michael Guerriero, www.newyorker.com. December 9, 2011.

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