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I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

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• All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Ends
  • Bring
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• I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Everything
  • White
  • Certainty

• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.

  

  Ian McShane
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• If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.

  

  Jack Whitehall
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• My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.

  

  Warren Spector
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• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
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• I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • Up
  • Great
  • Because

• Maybe it is the media that has us divided.

  

  Laura Bush
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• Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
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• It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.

  

  Hannah Simone
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• I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.

  

  Sam Shepard
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  • Feel
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• Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.

  

  Karel Capek
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• I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
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• Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.

  

  Uri Geller
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• Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

  

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• You have to be quite stupid to act.

  

  Rachel Weisz
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• Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.

  

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• An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

  

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• The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
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• I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

  

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