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• You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.

  Amy Sedaris

  Character, Watches, Actors

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• Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.

  Douglas Coupland

  Leaving, Bars, Salad

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• All the things that most people hate about traveling -- the recycled air, the artificial lighting, the digital juice dispensers, the cheap sushi -- are warm reminders that I'm home.

  Ryan Bingham

  Hate, Home, People

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• Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Summer, July

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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  Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

  Langston Hughes

  Summer, Rain, Humor

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.525, University of Missouri Press

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• A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Writing, Guy

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Brother, Yoga

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• In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

  Len Deighton

  Funny, Lenses, Mexico

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  Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Blood, Veins, Alive

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• Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

  Maxim Gorky

  Castles, Inns, Reader

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• The law says if you poison the water, you’ll die. The law says that if you poison the air, you’ll suffer. The law says if you degrade where you live, you’ll suffer... If you don’t learn that, you can only suffer. There’s no discussion with this law.

  Oren Lyons

  Law, Water, Suffering

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• I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughing, Receiving, Lips

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.21

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• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• Madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.

  George R. R. Martin

  Greatness, Land, Two Sides

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• Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

  Stewart Udall

  Nature, Men, Water

  Stewart L. Udall (1968). “1976: Agenda for Tomorrow”

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  Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

  Henry Rollins

  Life, Lonely, Depressing

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• Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.

  Homer Burton Adkins

  Business, Science, Land

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• It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Struggle, Rights

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Thinking, Class

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Inspirational, Mistake, Tomorrow

  Fiona McHugh, Lucy Maud Montgomery (1987). “The Anne of Green Gables Storybook: Based on the Kevin Sullivan Film of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Classic Novel”, Scarborough, Ont. : Firefly Books

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• Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How then can I withstand mine?

  Mechthild of Magdeburg

  Water, Bird, Given

  Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1953). “The Revelations of Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210-1297): Or, The Flowing Light of the Godhead”

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• Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it's the tone, the context, where those words are aimed, and in whose company they are uttered. Of course murderers and victims use the same words, but I never read the words utopia, or beauty, or tenderness in police descriptions. Do you know that the Argentinean dictatorship burnt The Little Prince ? And I think they were right to do so, not because I do not love The Little Prince , but because the book is so full of tenderness that it would harm any dictatorship.

  Juan Gelman

  Book, Thinking, Police

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• Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

  Emma Donoghue

  Book, Breathe, Seasons

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• Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was song.

  Richard Llewellyn

  Song, House, Singing

  Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• ...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. But most of all the trees would distill an icy air for the lungs, and a gentle rustling for the ear when you lay nights in your snowy bed and were gentled to sleep by the sound.

  Ray Bradbury

  Summer, Children, Sleep

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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