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• Well, Jen and Josh are the two funniest people on set. They're absolutely insane. If you put them together, it's just a disaster, But, I mean, it's so much fun! They're both probably the funniest people on set.

  Willow Shields

  Fun, Mean, Two

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• To subdivide this land into two unstable, insecure nations, to try to defend what is indefensible, is to invite disaster. Carving Judea and Samaria out of Israel means carving up Israel.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Mean, Insecure, Two

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• It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.

  John Lennon

  Music, Rocks, Talking

  BBC Radio 1 "Scene and Heard" with David Wigg, October 25, 1971.

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• Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Taken, Two, People

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• Gujarat is all about Trade with Tradition, Commerce with Culture, Enterprise with Entertainment and Development with Disaster management.

  Narendra Modi

  India, Culture, Gujarat

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• It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Europe, Communist, Economic

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• Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

  Tom Stoppard

  Theatre, Obstacles, Series

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• We can all endure disaster and tragedy, and triumph over them-if we have to. We may not think we can, but we have surprisingly strong inner resources that will see us through if we will only make use of them. We are stronger than we think.

  Dale Carnegie

  Strong, Thinking, Tragedy

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.77, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Release, Phenomenon, Sleeplessness

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• We are not, of course, optimistic about our chances of success. Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the century. (The inability to forecast exactly which one - whether plague, famine, the poisoning of the oceans, drastic climatic change, or some disaster entirely unforeseen - is hardly grounds for complacency.)

  John Holdren

  War, Ocean, Optimistic

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• The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest mistakes in history-the wars that are not thought out, the disasters that are not foreseen

  Robert Greene

  War, Mistake, Dreamer

  50 Cent, Robert Greene (2010). “The 50th Law”, p.45, Profile Books

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• This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster.

  Bob Menendez

  Mean, America, United States

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• The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Want, Assuming

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• Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea.

  Lance Morrow

  Art, Fall, Ideas

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• I love jokes, but God, jokes can go so wrong. I have stayed up many nights thinking, "F**k. I can't believe I made that silly little joke. That was a disaster."

  Drew Barrymore

  Believe, Silly, Night

  "Drew Barrymore on her new gig, motherhood, and Adam Sandler". Interview with Lindzi Scharf, www.cnn.com. January 9, 2014.

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• One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.

  Norman Mailer

  War, Fall, Loss

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times. If you get lost and you just end up eating just anywhere, you know, you see a bunch of Venetians sitting around smoking cigarettes, eating something unrecognizable in a dark alley somewhere, chances are it's interesting.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Dark, Vacation, Perfect

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2011.

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• Nothing but disaster follows from applause.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Applause

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• Did you see Britney Spears at the Video Music Awards? I don't want to say that that performance was a disaster, but after the show, I saw Rudy Giuliani having his picture taken standing on her.

  Bill Maher

  Taken, Awards, Saws

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• In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design computer viruses, to trigger some kind of disaster. Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure - error rather than terror.

  Martin Rees

  Technology, Errors, Design

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• No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.

  Karen DeCrow

  Art, Pain, War

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• There are cloudy moments when one asks himself if men do not deserve all the disasters into which they rush! No - I recover myself - they do not deserve them. But we, instead of saying "I wish" must say "I will." And what we will, we must will to build it, with order, with method, beginning at the beginning, when once we have been as far as that beginning. We must not only open our eyes, but our arms, our wings.

  Henri Barbusse

  Eye, Men, Order

  "Clarté (Light)". Book by Henri Barbusse translated by Fitzwater Wray (Chapter XXI: No!), 1919.

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• The sin against blood and race is the hereditary sin in this world and it brings disaster on every nation that commits it.

  Adolf Hitler

  Race, Blood, World

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.252, eKitap Projesi

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• I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and its in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

  Samuel J. Palmisano

  Thinking, Missing, Fabric

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• Sometimes I think that everyone has a tragedy waiting for them, that the people buying milk in their pajamas or picking their noses at stoplights could be only moments away from disaster. That everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a moment when it will become extraordinary - a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen.

  Robyn

  Thinking, People, Waiting

  "The Beginning of Everything". Book by Robyn Schneider, August 27, 2013.

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