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The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.

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• I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.

  

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• I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.

  

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• Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

  

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• First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.

  

  Earl Campbell
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• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

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• No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

  

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• Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

  

  Kamisese Mara
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• When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

  

  Owen Hart
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• You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.

  

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• Home is where your rump rests.

  

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• We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.

  

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• I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.

  

  Sam Kinison
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• It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.

  

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• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
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• If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

  

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• We should all love animals.

  

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• Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.

  

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• I grew up and I kind of took the road of becoming a pilot, which was another dream I had of flying, and once I did attend the air force academy, that dream of flying became more like a project, and I wanted to be a fighter pilot, which I did. I became a fighter pilot.

  

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• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  

  Fay Wray
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• I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.

  

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• One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference.

  

  Jil Sander
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• One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
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• The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.

  

  James Bovard
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