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• I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Doubt, Horror

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• Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Song, Air, Literature

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• Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.

  Robert Ardrey

  Charity, Cowardice, Cruelty

  Robert Ardrey (1977). “The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man”

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• I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.

  Jason Reitman

  Fun, Play, Directors

  "Jason Reitman’s ‘Live Read’ Series to Bring ‘The Apartment’ to New York This Month". artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. April 03, 2012.

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• But my everyday music is classic rock. It’s what I relate to the most and where my heart is.

  Nicole Richie

  Heart, Rocks, Everyday

  "Nicole Richie Grows Up". "Interview Magazine" Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 3, 2010.

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• America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

  Eric Ripert

  America, Comfort, Melting

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• I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out.

  Kid Rock

  Country, Song, Night

  “Kid Rock: What I've Learned” by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. April 20, 2011.

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• A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Inspirational, Friendship, Success

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

  Paul Samuelson

  Money, Vegas, Saving

  "Paul Samuelson's Words of Wisdom" by Larry Swedroe, www.cbsnews.com. December 17, 2009.

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• A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Desire, Literature, Educated

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• If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.

  Liev Schreiber

  May, Film, Remakes

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

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• I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.

  Howard Schultz

  Running, College, Class

  "Howard Schultz Talks To Los Angeles Entrepreneurs About Starbucks, His New Book, And The American Dream". Interview with Nicole Larson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 07, 2011.

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• If I'm feeling down in the dumps, or like I need a pop of colour, I'll put on MAC's Lipstick in Lady Danger. I discovered red lipstick when I did the Oscar season: Chanel sent me one and I realised how classic and glamorous it can be.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Feeling Down, Red Lipstick, Feelings

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• As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Sports, Religious

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. 36

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• Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate elements of drama, comedy and suspense is moderately ingenious.

  Tom Shales

  Stars, Drama, Idols

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• The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.

  Rob Sheffield

  Rocks, Creating, Giving

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• Nobody does just one thing. But the real difference between being an entrepreneur and everyone else in the world is the ability to monetize. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold.

  Gene Simmons

  Real, Differences, Entrepreneur

  "Kiss and Tell: Gene Simmons talks business". Interview with Stacy Perman, www.nbcnews.com. September 11, 2008.

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• When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

  Nina Simone

  Music, People, Choices

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• I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight.

  Simon Sinek

  Hero, Fighting, White

  "Fitting In: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Government, Damage, Behaviour

  "Reforming Welfare, Transforming Lives". Cambridge Public Policy lecture, www.ukpol.co.uk. October 25, 2012.

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• I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Eye, Voice, Sound

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• Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.

  James Surowiecki

  Depressing, Book, Years

  "Class Action". www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2005.

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• One of the best parts of Thanksgiving for me is re-watching some of the classic holiday blunders that have been depicted on television. I remember laughing uncontrollably on the set of 'That Girl' back in 1967 when we shot the episode, 'Thanksgiving Comes But Once A Year, Hopefully' during our second season.

  Marlo Thomas

  Girl, Holiday, Years

  "Wishing You A Happy, Blunder-Free Thanksgiving" by Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2013.

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• If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans.

  Emma Watson

  Jeans, Forever, Would Be

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• Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

  Scott Weiland

  Inspired, Songwriting, Effects

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