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I guess ... I'm going to get that ice cream sundae they give you on the airplane. I usually pass on that,… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Social media has had a huge impact on the industry. Models now have voices. We are connected directly to millions of people,… — Sara Sampaio Copy Share Image
My mom told me I could have sheets, towels, and a few pillows, but I wanted leopard drapes, carpeting, and a comforter,… — Kim Kardashian Copy Share Image
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I think for a lot of people, the financial barrier is the biggest leap you have to take to follow your dreams.… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know… — James P. Hogan Copy Share Image
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Talk to me 20 years ago and I had a complete sense of illegitimacy as an American Muslim. I felt like I… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
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We're now moving toward a radically different economy. You absolutely can't have a distribution oligopoly. The new oligopolies - and I think… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
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To design things means to interfere with things: to think of how they might be and to alter how they are. Design… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
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I think that the whole idea of ‘no regrets’ was always a silly idea to me, because of course I regret all… — Jesse Lacey Copy Share Image
Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I would get songs sung to me, like 'Old Man River, 'or kids would call me Mississippi and things like that. At… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
I think every doctor should know the shocking state of affairs...We discovered they (the FDA) failed to effectively regulate the large manufacturers… — Edward V. Long Copy Share Image
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Stirner and Nietzsche [adopt] a mode of thinking which is personal, introspective, and which while often operating on alternative systems of belief… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
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