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• A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time - not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas - but Superman, Captain Marvel, and Batman.

  Tom Wolfe

  Time, Aeneas, Age

  Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.46, Macmillan

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• [The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Limits, Overwhelmed, Belated

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• I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world. --Terri Mitchell

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Inspirational, Learning, Fighting

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• The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish.

  Joseph Heller

  Player, Games, Interesting

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care — For Captain was the Butterfly For Helmsman was the Bee And an entire universe For the delighted crew.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Butterfly, Air

  Emily Dickinson, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1994). “Emily Dickinson”, p.36, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• I'm the crazy girly captain, Remember?

  Eoin Colfer

  Girly, Crazy, Remember

  Eoin Colfer (2002). “Artemis fowl: the Arctic incident”

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• I'm LEP. A captain. No rent-a-cop gnome is going to stand in the way of my orders.

  Eoin Colfer

  Order, Way, Cop

  Eoin Colfer (2002). “Artemis fowl: the Arctic incident”

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• Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss?

  Eoin Colfer

  Night, Two, Tears

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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• But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it will be no use at all. So far as I know we did not set sail to look for things useful but to seek honour and adventures. And here is as great an adventure as I have ever heard of, and here, if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honours.

  C. S. Lewis

  Adventure, Mean, Darkness

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• My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Mother, Spoons, Dignity

  Lincoln Steffens (1962). “The World of Lincoln Steffens”

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• I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

  Hope Solo

  Team, Victory, Needs

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• I was captain of the volleyball team and the basketball team, and I ran track.

  Sarah Shahi

  Basketball, Volleyball, Team

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• I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.

  Chris Evans

  America, Decision, Film

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• With me, traveling for work is arriving at the airport, checking into the hotel, leaving the hotel the next morning at 4 or 5 to do something like 'The Jimmy and Jackie Captain Crazy Morning Zoo,' doing a bunch of those in a row, then going back to the hotel, and then finally going to the club.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Morning, Zoos, Crazy

  "Gillbert Gottfried: Travels of a miserable guy". "Celebrity travel", www.nbcnews.com. April 8, 2008.

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• As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.

  Mark Haddon

  Teenager, Team, School

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• By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.

  Tom Hanks

  Thinking, Sea, Alabama

  "Captain Courageous: Tom Hanks and Capt. Richard Phillips". Interview with Katherine Heintzelman and Jennifer Rainey Marquez, parade.com. September 21, 2013.

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• I'd love to see T'he Avengers' with Robert Downey, Jr. playing Loki and Clark Gregg playing 'Thor' and I play Captain America.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Play, America, Robert Downey

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• In the liberal remake of 'Casablanca,' the police captain comes upon the scene of the shooting and orders his men to 'round up the usual weapons.' It's always the weapon and never the shooter.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Men, Order, Police

  "The Real Navy Yard Scandal" by Charles Krauthammer, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 20, 2013.

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• To me it's like, every time I'm a director, like today, you're the captain of the ship, so you better dress like it. You're the host of the party.

  Mike Mills

  Party, Dresses, Today

  "The Mooring of Starting Out: Mike Mills on Beginners". Interview With Durga Chew-Bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 3, 2011.

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• I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don't have to be captain, but I do want to play on a winning team.

  Jane Pauley

  Team, Ambition, Winning

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• During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.

  Kevin Pietersen

  Communication, England, Helpful

  "Strauss steps into England hot seat as Pietersen resigns and Moores sacked" by Mikey Stafford, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2009.

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• The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.

  Joey Ramone

  Eagles, Answers

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Beautiful, Nice, Book

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3699, e-artnow

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• Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

  Mitch Albom

  Thinking, Dying, Earth

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• That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. [to Inara] Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint.

  Joss Whedon

  Girl, Rain, Good Luck

  "Serenity". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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