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• I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them on Twitter, and send them to friends. I treat menus like classic literature, refusing to skip even one word. I read the description of every item, regardless of whether or not I'm interested in eating it.

  Rachel Nichols

  Mean, Literature, Eating

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• I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.

  Ted Nugent

  Attitude, Fire, Rocks

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• Saturday night at my house, I often trot out classic movies and force the urchins to watch them. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but I think it's important to teach kids about American culture, and films are certainly a big part of it.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Kids, Night, Thinking

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• I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Select, David Thoreau, Emily

  CNN's Book Chat, www.cnn.com.

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• One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Boards, Stories

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• There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Thinking, Righteous Living

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

  Sylvia Plath

  Kissing, Feminism, Important

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.197, Anchor

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• Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Goal, Feminism

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• There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Sad, Women

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.12, Hamilton Books

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• Is there no way out of the mind?

  Sylvia Plath

  Frustration, Mind, Feminism

  'Apprehensions'

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• But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

  Sylvia Plath

  Life, Running, Passion

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.148, Anchor

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• I am too pure for you or anyone.

  Sylvia Plath

  Feminism, Being A Woman, Purity

  Sylvia Plath “Poemas”, Editora Iluminuras Ltda

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• Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

  Sylvia Plath

  Fake People, Women, Independent

  "Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness". Book by Edward Butscher (p. 181), 2003.

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• The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.

  John Podhoretz

  Views, People, Intellectual

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• I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.

  Natalie Portman

  Mean, World, Different

  Jewish Chronicle Interview, July 6, 2007.

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• Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Ironing Board, Example, Boards

  "Dan the man". Interview with Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2009.

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• Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

  Dan Rather

  Sports, Baseball, Games

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2005.

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• He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.

  Robert Redford

  Fall, Character, Journey

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• I had the classic 40 meltdown, I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

  Keanu Reeves

  Funny, Mind, Body

  "Keanu Reeves suffered a meltdown when he turned 40". www.ctvnews.ca. March 2, 2012.

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• The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.

  Juan Williams

  Winning, Presidential, Political

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• The advent of DVD/Blu-ray reissues of classic Hollywood and foreign films has been a boon to film buffs, who can now study their favorites in all their glistening detail and restored palettes.

  James Wolcott

  Dvds, Rays, Hollywood

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• I am a child of the '70s, so I love classic rock - Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and I also love Coldplay.

  Rachel Zoe

  Children, Rocks, Rolling

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• Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements - with something tougher and edgier in a nod to London's rock n' roll underground.

  Rachel Zoe

  Fall, Rocks, Elements

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• All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.

  Rob Zombie

  Forever, Band, Has Beens

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• The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.

  Caitlin Moran

  Sexy, Annoyed, Female

  "Sunday Profile" with Julia Baird, www.abc.net.au. January 1, 2012.

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