High Quotes
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Why are ... female characters in combat roles wearing high-heels? With all the fighting, running and climbing these women have to do, dressing them in high-heels is clearly a decision rooted in sexualized aesthetic pleasure rather than believability.
Anita Sarkeesian
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Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations.
Jean-Francois Lyotard
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People always slow down for a train wreck. It's like junk food. If you don't feel good about yourself, you want to read crap about other people, like gossip in high school. You don't understand why it's there, but somehow it makes a lot of people feel better.
Angelina Jolie
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Before running for Congress, I was an innovator and entrepreneur who founded several high-tech businesses that created hundreds of jobs and schools that found ways to serve those children that traditional schools couldn't.
Jared Polis
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I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.
Kelly Reilly
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We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves.
Matt Stone
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The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.
Bill Richardson
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Writing turned a spotlight on the high, dim Sierras of speech; writing was the visualization of acoustic space. It lit up the dark. (p. 14)
Marshall McLuhan
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I don't have a lot of friends; most of the friends I have, I've had since high school.
Lauren London
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If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high.
John Kricfalusi
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I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York.
Kristen Wiig
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The national nonprofit I founded, 'KaBOOM!,' is on a mission to save play for America's children, and has long been championing the cause in high-need communities.
Darell Hammond
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I hated high school and got to college and realized they didn't care if I showed up because I'd already paid. So I decided, 'I'm going to turn this around.' And I did: I got straight A's and was named 'outstanding senior.'
Pauley Perrette
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My diet is high on protein, which keeps me energised and fresh.
Karan Patel
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Restaurant industry sales in 2011 are estimated to have reached a record high of $604 billion, up 3.6 percent from 2010. Restaurant employment grew 1.9 percent in 2011, with some 230,000 jobs added, the strongest gain in five years.
David Sax
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National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word 'industry' is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.
Peter Weir
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There have always been those who, though they see tragedy as the outcome of freedom, will nevertheless judge that tragedy is not too high a price to pay.
Kenneth Rexroth
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Thou art Justice - ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England - thou Shield'st alike the high and low.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I like doing 25-minute intervals on the treadmill. I go back and forth with running and fast walking and keep changing the incline to high and low. Then I do 15 minutes of lifting light weights and all different kinds of sit-ups, squats, and stretches. I do this routine four days a week.
Colbie Caillat
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They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.
Oliver Goldsmith
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I coasted through high school. I was 203rd in a class of 987.
Jerry Reinsdorf
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Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of the euphoric exclamations. Every record I put on was like a baptism.
Questlove
