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There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.

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• I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.

  

  Daniel Craig
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• If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

  

  Oscar Robertson
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• Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.

  

  Hansjorg Wyss
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• I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.

  

  Patrick deWitt
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• As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
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• My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.

  

  Rachel Sklar
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• For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

  

  Cao Yu
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• Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
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• Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.

  

  Barry Watson
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• The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see.

  

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• Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.

  

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• Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.

  

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• I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

  

  Eddie Huang
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• Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

  

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• It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.

  

  Aldo Leopold
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• Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news.

  

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• Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

  

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• My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

  

  Joan Chen
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• I have male friends. I'm the type of girl that always had male friends, more male friends than female friends. So just because you see me with the person doesn't mean that I'm kicking it with them, hanging out with them, or we're romantically involved in any way, shape or form.

  

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• I made three short films of my own which I wrote, produced, directed... you did everything in those days. My favourite one was something I shot on VHS... a little documentary.

  

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• There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.

  

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