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Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.

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• I do freestyle jumping. Been doing since I was eight years old and can't quit. I'm addicted. I've broken many bones, but I ride with confidence. It's my thing - there's no high on earth like it. It's my hobby and I really enjoy it.

  

  Vanilla Ice
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• I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.

  

  Yuna
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• I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.

  

  Bat for Lashes
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• I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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• There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• We absolutely look at larger trends and reactions on Twitter here at the White House.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
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• I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.

  

  Garrison Keillor
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• I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• There are still some pieces that aren't being used, like the white-space bands between TV channels. With digital broadcasting, those buffers aren't needed anymore. The wireless telcos want to lease them, while the TV industry wants to maintain the status quo. Either decision would be a mistake.

  

  Ram Shriram
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• I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery.

  

  Yves Chauvin
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• Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• I'm not attacking the idea that people live in conglomerations of houses in proximity to one another, sharing the same water mains and the same newspaper delivery boy and so forth. I'm not objecting to that. That could happen with or without homeownership.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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• I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore onscreen.

  

  Garth Brooks
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• I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.

  

  Alan Ball
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• Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

  

  Kevin Kline
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• I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.

  

  Brian Wilson
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• Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.

  

  Peter Orszag
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• Be wary, be wary, of the prosecutor who feels it necessary to deceive the court.

  

  Charles Ruff
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• There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
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• Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.

  

  Lewis Carroll
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