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The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power…
— Karl Marx
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I see a lot of parallels between my candidacy and the Tea Party. I would not have been elected had there not been a tremendous…
— Jimmy Carter
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A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have…
— Ernest Hemingway
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There are a lot of things that you can like at a distance without spending a huge amount of time pondering. It's not so complicated.
— Elvis Costello
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When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.
— Will Arnett
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I feel a certain amount of freedom just cruising to the liquor store to get water or whatever. It just feels good. It makes me…
— Matt Skiba
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Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything.
— Gary Shteyngart
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No one runs fast without an extreme amount of training. Like today, you see kids walking around dribbling a basketball. I had a bag with…
— Edwin Moses
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It was probably very difficult to go from Chinese and then suddenly go to kindergarten and start speaking English; it's very hard to transition back…
— Lucy Liu
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I just want to say that, all you do, no matter how bad your diet is, for the first six months or year, I just…
— Sylvester Stallone
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To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business…
— Debbie Harry
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Even the relatively small amount of trans fats are likely to be causing around 7,000 premature deaths from heart disease per year.
— Walter Willett
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Think about how rare it is for anyone to encounter a teacher who can open you up to the notion that there is an infinite…
— Greil Marcus
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I don't like it when reviews aren't about the movie. When they're about how much money somebody made, or who they're sleeping with, or if…
— Jodie Foster
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The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.
— Michael J. Fox
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With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to…
— Jamie Foxx
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Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.
— Pope Francis
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I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic…
— John Frusciante
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The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for…
— Jerry Garcia
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I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And…
— Bill Gates
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