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		Best fight ever in a movie: 'They Live.' I want to do a martial arts version of that, where you think it's ended, and it just keeps on going. I love that fight. It was funny as well. Unexpected.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Scott Adkins
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm not going to change who I am just because people think it's weird. The only way I'm going to have a great season is by starting out happy and balanced and continuing to be me. It might be unconventional, but to feel good about life I need to have some adventure.
	
	
	
		
			
				
				Daniel Norris
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everything was electrical. 'Electro' was all over the early 20th century, and now it's gone. I think 'cyber' is sort of the same way.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Gibson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions, because there is such a large variety of dispositions. I believe that each individual should embark upon a spiritual path that is best suited to his or her mental disposition, natural inclination, temperament, belief, family and cultural background.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dalai Lama
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Why do you think the lottery is so popular? Do you think anybody would play if the super payoff was a job on the night shift in a meat-packing plant? People play it so if they win they can be rich and idle. Like I told you years ago - if work is so good, how come they have to pay us to do it?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mike Royko
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The town of GUILDFORD, which (taken with its environs) I, who have seen so many, many towns, think the prettiest, and, taken all together, the most agreeable and most happy-looking, that I ever saw in my life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Cobbett
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		You can't get a leopard to change his spots. In fact, now that I come to think of it, you can't really get a leopard to appreciate the notion that it has spots. You can explain it carefully to the leopard, but it will just sit there looking at you, knowing that you are made of meat. After a while it will perhaps kill you.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Geoffrey K. Pullum
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You're always moving and thinking about a whole bunch of things. But those traits work well for me in studios and in meetings about creative ideas. If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes. I figured out a way of working with it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				will.i.am
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the world and its way of accepting life. Such an idiom makes the finest language any writer can have; and he can never get it with a notebook. He himself must be able to think and feel in that speech - it is a gift from heart to heart.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Willa Cather
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I am a big fan of the electronic book. I hate to see the old bookstores close, but they have to reinvent themselves. I believe the First Edition bookstore will be the next thing. People will read electronically, then decide they want to own that book. The author will then be invited to the old bookstores to sign. I think books will always be with us, but they will fill a different need.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It will be difficult to return to racing this weekend after Marco's terrible accident in Sepang but I think it is the best thing we can do to honour him,” says World Champ Casey Stoner. We know we all play a risky game and, even if compared to the past the safety of our sport is much better, unfortunately these kind of events still occur. We will go out there this weekend and try to put on a good show for all the fans and especially in memory of Marco.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Casey Stoner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think that the collectible ephemera craze/awareness is probably driven by a reverse market, rebounding off the sense of everything being mass-produced. It's the last step you take in trying to find something unique.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Gibson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . . I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance - the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Butler Yeats
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Henry Rollins
			
			
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		I think a lot of things that people think are complimentary are a little bit condescending, but then we just have to keep doing what we're doing, and being in the band is the important bit.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lauren Mayberry
			
			
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		A smile flickered across Coral’s face. “Have you ever noticed that once you have had a taste of certain sweets—raspberry trifle is my own despair—it is quite impossible not to think, not to want, not to crave until you have taken another bite?” “Lord Swartingham is not a raspberry trifle.” “No, more of a dark chocolate mousse, I should think,” Coral murmured. “And,” Anna continued as if she hadn’t heard the interruption, “I don’t need another bite, uh,night of him.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elizabeth Hoyt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vivienne Westwood
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If you're writing a thriller, and you don't make it compelling, then you've really not done your job. So it's easier for me not to set out with certain goals, and then I can't see them as unmet. It's like life generally: If I'm not aiming to be physically fit, then I'm not always thinking about being unfit.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Claire Messud
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		As an artist, expectations are basically your enemy. If you're truly making something to make it, then you're not thinking about anything else except what you're making.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kevin Drew
			
			
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		I believe that simple, consistent shifts in our thinking and actions can lead to the miraculous in all aspects of our daily lives, including our relationships, finances, bodies, and self-image.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gabrielle Bernstein
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It is important to remember when reading Adam Smith or even when just thinking about Smith that the era that he lived in, we're not talking about poverty in a day when it meant not enough bedrooms for the kids, an old car, a black and white television. We're talking about a whole world where poverty meant not enough to eat.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				P. J. O'Rourke
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You either have to sing about being scorned by a lover or sing about thinking a boy is cute and wanting him to notice you. That's about as edgy as you can get.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Maren Morris