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I started off at the Second City in Chicago... It's an improvisational theater that ostensibly does social and political satire, but when I was there, we generally didn't. We did character work, and we did just the silliest things we could think of. We weren't all that concerned with, you know, changing the world through mime.

Stephen Colbert

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If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.

Jimi Hendrix

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The contextual age means we're going to have to go to war on noise.

Robert Scoble

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I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system should always take into consideration the special knowledge as to the facts in a case which only the trial judge possesses.

Robert Kennedy

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There is a lot that binds Germany to Turkey, and even if we have a difference of opinion on an individual matter, the breadth of our links, our friendship, our strategic ties, is great.

Angela Merkel

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It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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The music industry really is a meritocracy on a creative level.

Troy Carter

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I think the point of our country, our planet, the reason we're all here, one of the best things that we can do is be concerned about something even when it doesn't concern us. That's the whole point.

Shonda Rhimes

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It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

Tony Hancock

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I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.

Tom Jenkinson

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My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country.

Minnie Pearl

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I used to watch those rock videos where they would chainsaw the piano. And I thought, 'That's what I want to do.' I thought classical music was corny.

Jason Moran

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I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white reproductions on miserable paper. That was, for many years, what art was for me. But from those miserable black-and-white reproductions, I got something, something unmistakable.

Jonas Mekas

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