I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.
Kevin Brockmeier
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I think that one of the motivating factors was in my last year of law school: we had a competition, and I won the competition; it was judged by several of the federal judges at the time. I got a tremendous amount of encouragement to pursue litigation from them at the time.
Robert Shapiro
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I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America.
Max Baucus
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Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a kid at the time. I had this idea of an angry father yelling 'Bart,' and Bart sounds kind of like bark - like a barking dog.
Matt Groening
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How can you say when you're attracted to something? It's not easy to articulate my tastes.
Jeff Goldblum
EasyYouSaySomethingAttracted
Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.
Stephen Malkmus
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The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.
Steven T. Katz
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One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.
Ron Chernow
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Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.
Louis Kahn
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I've got girlfriends who call me 'Raye' or 'L. Raye', but when somebody calls me 'Lisa', it's like, 'You've got two more times to say that and then I think you're disrespecting me and I'm going to have to cut you!'
LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
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The tree has been always an allegory for spiritual growth.
Juan Antonio Bayona
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Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.
Jason Fried
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What's really cool about LEGOs is that you can put a bunch of bricks on the table, and everybody will make something different. Everyone has different ideas, and some of them may seem crazy.
Christopher Miller
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