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In '82 and '83, that was the rise of the VCR. Every Friday, my brother and I would go to Crazy Eddie's - which was a video store in Manhattan - and rent five horror movies. And that's basically what we did, basically, for three years. Becoming social misfits.

Colson Whitehead

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My endorsement of Senator Obama will not be welcome news to my friends and family at the Clinton campaign.

Joe Andrew

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Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.

Joan D. Vinge

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The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.

Anna Garlin Spencer

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The unhappy truth is, learning is hard.

Tucker Carlson

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I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.

Tommy Lee Jones

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I can say whatever I want. I will be nothing but unfiltered with my audience.

Ronan Farrow

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Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors are stuck with a confusing prescription drug plan that does little to help them with their costs.

Marty Meehan

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My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

Jose Manuel Barroso

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It is our nation which is blind, and needs our prayers.

Jonathan Kozol

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I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool... but that's just natural.

Dolly Parton

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I always had the fantasy of Hollywood and Los Angeles and the beach, not realizing that Hollywood was so very far from the beach.

Bonnie McKee

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15 years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.

Anthony Michael Hall

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