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They didn't get along. Gehrig thought Ruth was a big-mouth, and Ruth thought Gehrig was cheap. They were both right. — Tony Lazzeri Copy Share Image
Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played,… — Ian McLagan Copy Share Image
The people who were in college in the '50s were my first real audience, and their kids, the people who found my… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
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I became a sales manager at Digital Equipment, promoted from within the sales team. My peers were less than excited that I… — Carol Bartz Copy Share Image
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There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
'Eureka' was very bad timing. The early 1980s: Reagan and Thatcher were in, greed was good, and here was a film about… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
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Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters. — Neil Innes Copy Share Image
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At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
The popular songs that were written in the 1920s and '30s, '40s and early '50s were written by veterans - mostly men… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
We weren't radical chic. Jane Fonda embarrassed me. We belonged to no political parties. Basically, we were vaudevillians. — Tom Smothers Copy Share Image
Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter. — Eve Myles Copy Share Image
The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
A kestrel can and does hover in the dead calm of summer days, when there is not the faintest breath of wind.… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
I used to have two brown-coloured cats, who were brother and sister, called Bonzo and Bonzetta. — Mini Grey Copy Share Image
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There's so many ways to do stand up, and I think, for awhile, people weren't really maximizing the freedom of it. We… — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
There were times when I thought of dropping skating completely and just focusing on baseball. — Eddy Alvarez Copy Share Image
Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the… — Timothy West Copy Share Image
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