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Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.

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The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?'

Jeremy Bentham

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A lot of the novels I admire are 'admirably provincial.'

Melvyn Bragg

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I am weary of happiness, both as a word and as a concept.

Meghan Daum

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It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Robert Strauss

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I wasn't going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

Stephen Curry

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Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.

Russell Pearce

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It's tough to find a place not to like in Switzerland.

Michele Bachmann

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I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all.

Michel Patini

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Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

Joseph Butler

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The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.

Doris Lessing

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I think we really need a government that tells us what to do.

Alice Eve

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I do believe that Brock Lesnar will be coming back. I don't want to call it from retirement, but he is a huge draw, big guy, sells tickets. So that's a fight I would be interested in.

Alistair Overeem

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