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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
Garry Moore
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
Nadia Comaneci
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
Sam Graves
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
Zaha Hadid
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
Saint Ignatius
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
Taye Diggs
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
Federico Fellini
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
Ian Millar
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
Garth Brooks
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
Edith Wharton
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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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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
Mahershala Ali
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Being a celebrity is a business.
Caitlyn Jenner
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I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.
Barbara Windsor
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We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.
Gary Bettman
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
Oleg Cassini
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There is a very serious energy agenda that we can work on together.
Anthony Wayne
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North Korean defectors who speak out against the regime always feel nervous. We never know what the North Korean government is planning. It's really difficult for us to show our faces and speak out, but we feel obligated to do something to inform people about the ongoing tragedy inside North Korea.
Lee Hyeon-seo
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In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.
Chris Carmack
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
Francesca Annis
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I just don't live my life in a world where I am not feeling my best, and feeling my best is feeling sexy.
Ashley Graham
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Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.
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