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		Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I'm not a country person. I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. But sometimes being police means holding your breath and fondling a pig.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ben Aaronovitch 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I don't get angry very often, but there have been times when I have been frustrated with myself, maybe after playing a bad shot, after getting out, I have done some damage to some equipment of mine. Once or twice in the course of 20 years – I think you can allow me that at least. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rahul Dravid 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				P. J. O'Rourke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				T-Pain 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Laura Bell Bundy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Oscar Wilde 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patrick Chappatte 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		When women's consciousness was raised, women ended up seeing housework as their shit work ; when men's consciousness is raised, risking sexual rejection will be seen as the male shit work . 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Warren Farrell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kristin Scott Thomas 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Part of an icon's power comes from its indivisibility. The swoosh cannot be further deconstructed into its component parts. Just as golden arches mean McDonald's, and the little red tab means Levi's, the swoosh is Nike. The product is its icon, inseparably and without exception. To buy a pair of Nike shoes is to buy the Nike swoosh. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Douglas Rushkoff 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I love to lose myself in other men's minds. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Charles Lamb 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I did get in a few fights in school. Kids threw around anti-Semitic slurs, not knowing necessarily what they meant. It was probably just something they picked up somewhere, as kids do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jami Attenberg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		To me, you can be young in your mind, in the way you think, but if your body don't come with that, then it's wishful thinking. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bernard Hopkins