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We, in America and Great Britain, have never had to live with evil and ignore it, or pretend it wasn't happening, as people did all over Europe, and indeed, even in Germany herself.

Michael Korda

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LiveGreatPeopleEvilAmericaOver

A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.

Jimmy Carr

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As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when I was little, but I don't know, I just got quieter... With my friends, I was still an extrovert.

John Mulaney

SchoolHigh SchoolFriendsKnowHigh

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

John Sharp Williams

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During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

Sol LeWitt

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Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others.

Mohsin Hamid

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I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

Luis Walter Alvarez

GoodBadSayMoreThingsLike

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Lord Byron

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You don't get to hand footnotes to the audience or explain what you were trying to do and what it's supposed to be. Everything has to be on the screen, and it has to be clear.

Dee Rees

TryingYouHandExplainEverything

Non-violence is a permanent attitude we bring to the breakfast table and bring to bed at night.

Coretta Scott King

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There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

Clint Eastwood

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I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don't have a toy, they'll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

Clint Eastwood

TimeThinkYouWillOutUp

So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers.

Chuck Palahniuk

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