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“I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.”
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“As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.”
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“For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.”
Source : Gore Vidal (2011). “Burr: A Novel”, p.598, Vintage
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“I went along doing the one-salad-a-night routine for a year. And I remember feeling so tired and depressed and irritable. I had no personal life. I was always flying someplace - weekends, holidays, vacations. Dinners at night were no fun because I couldn't eat.”
Source : "The Body Game". Interview with Elizabeth Sporkin, people.com. January 11, 1993.
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“Stop looking for love and start showing it.”
Source : Paul Pearsall (2009). “Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need: Repress Your Anger, Think Negatively, be a Good Blamer and Throttle Your Inner Child”, p.56, Basic Books
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“You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left!”
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“I noticed some time ago that neither of the candidates are quoting the founders. If they are, they're doing it so rarely that I haven't noticed, or enough to be negligible. Certainly, neither is invoking the image of [George] Washington at Valley Forge or the Shining City Upon a Hill. In addition to this being true for John McCain and Barack Obama, it was true for Hillary Clinton as well.”
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“When I was younger I did karate and martial arts, and I think it's really cool for girls to have those kinds of abilities.”
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“I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.”
Source : "This much I know" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2009.
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“... in the midst of death life persists ...”