Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
Ferdinand Mount
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Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs.
Gary Miller
Bad Brains
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With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.
Larry Bishop
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The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.
Ted Sarandos
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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
Isaac Asimov
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When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.
Oscar Wilde
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This is a medical service. It always was.
Jack Kevorkian
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I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.
Samuel Beckett
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Whenever I hear you saying, rise and shine, rise and shine, it makes me think how lucky dead people are!
Orson Scott Card
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Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.
Kin Hubbard
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
Aristophanes
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Above all, he wanted to stop being a child without using the cheap disguise of becoming a parent.
Edward St Aubyn