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What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.

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• I have a great team at WME.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

  

  Omar Khayyam
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• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

  

  Carl Bernstein
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• I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.

  

  J Mascis
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• There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.

  

  Xavier Rudd
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• The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
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• It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.

  

  Laura Dern
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• Surprisingly, I am great at kiteboarding, but I'm not great at surfing.

  

  Maika Monroe
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• Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

  

  Nas
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• I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.

  

  Kapil Dev
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• Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

  

  Jack Layton
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• Most of us can now record a whole series with the click of a button. We all have DVD players, and the rise of the DVD box-set means we watch this stuff in two, three-hour sessions. So there is this real appetite out there for lengthy, pretty intricate drama. All that is great news for writers.

  

  Ted Danson
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• Six feet three in her stocking feet, L'Wren Scott was every inch a great lady.

  

  Hamish Bowles
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• As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.

  

  Otto Wallach
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• My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

  

  Laura Linney
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• My position on Speedos changes depending on the country that I'm in. If you're in Europe, it's definitely acceptable.

  

  Thomas Rhett
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• 'I tell you, Mr. Constant,' he said genially, 'it’s a thankless job, telling people it’s a hard, hard Universe they’re in.'

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
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• I wanted to write for Broadway.

  

  Cynthia Weil

• Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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• New York is the opposite of East Germany, the crown of individuality. That's why I can work well here and find out what I personally think of the pieces I'm learning. I can lay aside all the baggage of German education. In any case, whatever I do, I can't lose it altogether.

  

  Jan Vogler
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• What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.

  

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