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JOSH BILLINGS When I saw what a mess everything was in I asked for my money back on the ticket. I would have felt ... HENRI MATISSE I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw my... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Then every man would be as a god, you see. The result of this, of course, would be that there would ... ROGER ZELAZNY If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; th... MATT HAIG In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's emplo... HAMISH LINKLATER Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform ... AMITABH BACHCHAN We have a rich tradition here in the United States of great decathletes, which is amazing 'cause... CAITLYN JENNER Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all ac... VINCENT D'ONOFRIO Ought one to surrender to authority even if one believed that that authority was wrong? If the answe... RICHARD WRIGHT Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, si... H. P. LOVECRAFT I don't get it. I just don't get it. If Art is supposed to imitate Life, why do they want all the ac... CAMRYN MANHEIM Rarely does a facility go through a license inspection without any deficiencies. We certainly didn't... RICHARD MCGARVEY And if I sometimes hear nothing for hours on end it is for reasons of which I know nothing, or becau... SAMUEL BECKETT If I was in Hartford, it would be because we want to buy The Preserve or we need something for the t... DAN MORAN Well, I would be fooling my-self if I said it didn't set us back some, because it did. After all, we... RON AGOR There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident. 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Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse,
Drink the clear stream, and not... JOHN MILTON Keep in mind that we have a number of weeks of hurricane season ahead of us. If nothing else changes... ERIC DEGESERO The hunt for Nazis is no longer relevant. There are no important Nazis alive any more, essentially. ... YOSEF LAPID I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty... AMITABH BACHCHAN For half a century, the Sunset Strip was the asphalt timeline of American popular music. My most dis... STEVE ERICKSON To be truly meek means we no longer protect ourselves, because we see there is nothing worth defendi... DR. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creature... DONALD DAVIDSON The expectation was I would get married and become a mother and settle down. We didn't have any ... ALEXIS WRIGHT
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