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I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you… — David Massengill Copy Share Image
... geometry became a symbol for human relations, except that it was better, because in geometry things never go bad. If certain… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
The guy [Doctor Strange], he's like most of us, he's uncorrupted flesh from the beginning of his life, he's somebody who's not… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
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I think our conception of literature should accommodate not only apolitical writers but also those whose political opinions we find unpalatable. Fiction… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
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There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I do some three-part harmonies on 'Throes of Rejection' and 'Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,' but I didn't go overboard with it. — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
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I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
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Just by coincidence, Senator Teddy Kennedy and I, in the last couple of days, after several months of negotiations, have reached an… — John McCain Copy Share Image
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It was very important, and I felt like music ran through my blood lines, with my father being a deejay and teaching… — Pete Rock Copy Share Image
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That's one component: rather than creating job-training pipelines that put these kids at the back of the line for the last century's… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
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They're in the red zone. They're in the last 20 yards, and you can't let them cross that goal line. You can't… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of cruelty in… — Brian Reynolds Myers Copy Share Image
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