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		Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
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		The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.
	
	  Zack Snyder Zack Snyder
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		I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
	
	  Paloma Faith Paloma Faith
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		I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
	
	  K. Flay K. Flay
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		Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
	
	  Dakota Fanning Dakota Fanning
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		There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you can strike a groove, you can feed off each other... And, even though somebody might make a slight mistake, it's all real!
	
	  Isaac Hayes Isaac Hayes
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		So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.
	
	  Vince Gill Vince Gill
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		If Republicans are defeated in 2008, God help us all because Radical Islamic fascists will do anything by any means necessary to rid the world of the 'infidels': the enemy. In their eyes, that is America.
	
	  Angela McGlowan Angela McGlowan
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		Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.
	
	  Daniel J. Boorstin Daniel J. Boorstin
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		The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
	
	  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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		There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
	
	  Jean Baudrillard Jean Baudrillard
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		If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues, like restoring prosperity to the middle class, dealing with the perennial problem of health care in the United States. He talked a lot about the budget deficit, about the need to transition to clean energy.
	
	  Christina Romer Christina Romer
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		Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.
	
	  Clive Thompson Clive Thompson