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		Back in the '30s, '40s and '50s, you had clear-cut heroes, clear-cut supervillains. Today, you have more of a blend, more of a gray area between the two. You have the rise of the sympathetic villain and the rise of the antihero.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jim Lee
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I reserve the right to be smarter today than I was yesterday.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Konrad Adenauer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think my mom always wanted to play the guitar, and somehow she projected that to me. So I started learning to play guitar when I was five years old, but actually I'd never managed to get the academic side of it. So even up to today, I don't know how to read or write music.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla
			
			
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		While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ian Hornak
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We worked for 11 years to get where we are today, and I want to take our work seriously so that later on I'll be able to appreciate the money we've made.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Maurice Gibb
			
			
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		I was big as a kid, very overweight. That caused a lot of insecurities for me growing up, and on top of that, I didn't like the idea of big crowds. I found it quite frightening. I enjoy the company of people who I know, and I'm probably still like that today.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Deborah Mailman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		In today's world, new infections and diseases can spread across the country and even across the world in a matter of days, or even hours, making early detection critical.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Linder
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My father had lived in the States in the 1960s for a while and came to love American Songbook material. Even today, he sometimes recognizes singers that I never even heard of, which is beautiful and inspiring.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Anat Cohen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Well, I quit smoking three weeks ago and I had a hard day today not smoking.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eric Roberts
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		People talk of Pablo Picasso as the leader of the Cubists but, strictly speaking, he is no longer a Cubist. Today he is a Cubist, tomorrow he will be something else. The only true Cubists are Gleizes and Metzinger.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Marcel Duchamp
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		...and Britain was saved, because of a national day of prayer. Ladies and gentlemen, we desperately need our own Miracle of Dunkirk today.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James Dobson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bill Vaughan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vincent Van Gogh
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vaclav Havel
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker’s sense of satisfaction with his small existence–who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of 'equal' rights.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Friedrich Nietzsche
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eric Liu
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bruce Vento
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It may sound amazing to people today, but Rodgers and Hammerstein were considered by - how can I put it? - the sort of opinion-making tastemakers and everything to be 'off the scale as sentimental.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Andrew Lloyd Webber