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As a seven-year-old, I had definite opinions on Ronald Reagan.

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• You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

  

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• You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.

  

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• 'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.

  

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• I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.

  

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• I just have an inability to lie.

  

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• Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.

  

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• The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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• There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

  

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• If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

  

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• What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

  

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• Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them.

  

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• We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.

  

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• If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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• In 2009, I edited, under the aegis of the Library of America, an anthology called 'Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today.' It featured immigrants from different backgrounds, from black slaves like Phillis Wheatley to Yiddish-language speakers like Henry Roth.

  

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• Music keeps you eternally young. It just does.

  

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• Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.

  

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• Those who use this countries great tradition of freedom of speech should not seek to deny that same freedom to others, especially to those who, like Mr Powell, spent their war years in distinguished service in the Forces.

  

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• When a series is doing well, it's very tempting to keep writing it, even when the creative well is drying up. It's tempting because that's where the money is. I've had to be very careful; as soon as I think I'm getting close to that dry well, I wrap the series up. I don't want to just keep writing something because it sells.

  

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• While the traditional banks and credit card companies lock down access to their payments infrastructure to a handful of trusted parties, Bitcoin is open to all.

  

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• The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.

  

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• I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about birds or deserts or tree-crowded forests.

  

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• As a seven-year-old, I had definite opinions on Ronald Reagan.

  

  Adam Scott