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We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.

Afrika Bambaataa

Home, Media, Hands

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Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.

Mario Batali

Hate, Dumb, Different

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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

Samuel Beckett

Shining, Looks, Goes On

Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.159, Grove Press

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I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

Candice Bergen

Commitment, Boys, Thinking

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Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

Mary J. Blige

Music, Song, People

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It's a good community, country music, because we get the chance to sit down and... me and Tim McGraw spend a lot of time. Me and Kenny Chesney had the opportunity to spend a lot of time together. It's been a lot of great advice through the years.

Luke Bryan

Country, Opportunity, Years

"Luke Bryan Reveals His Memorable Spring Breaks, Best Buds and a Celebrity Apprentice Freakout". Interview with Michael Bialas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2012.

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I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well.

Sandra Bullock

Lying, Fighting, People

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I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

Sandra Bullock

Home, Hobbies, Want

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And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.

Delta Burke

Real, Talking, Body

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It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Jim Carrey

Ideas, Making Love, Affection

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Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

Nick Cave

People, Waiting, Muse

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I was in end stage heart failure, liver and kidneys shutting down, and on an emergency basis they went in and planted a pump in my chest. It was battery operated. That kept me alive for 20 months and that got me to the transplant. And I wake up every morning now with a smile on my face, thankful for the gift of another day I never expected to see.

Dick Cheney

Morning, Heart, Batteries

"Former Vice President Dick Cheney talks NSA surveillance program". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. June 16, 2013.

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You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

Chris Christie

Numbers, Teeth, Alternatives

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Character, Men, Fire

"Pro Roscio Comodeo". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Section 17), circa 76 BC.

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You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

Hillary Clinton

Fall, People, Giving

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Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?

Joe Cocker

Thinking, Idols, Scary

"Interview: Joe Cocker lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.

Leonard Cohen

Sadness, People, Joy

"I'm blessed with a certain amnesia". Interview with Jian Ghomeshi, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2009.

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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Writing, Judging, Stuff

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As long as we decline to allow sick uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.

Gail Collins

Lying, Long, People

"Senseless or Sensible?". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 27, 2012.

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So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.

Joan Collins

Bags, Useless, Ugly

"Joan Collins: Wardrobe secrets for timeless glamour - whatever your age" by Joan Collins, www.dailymail.co.uk. March 01, 2010.

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I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all together and divided by eleven. I then took that average and presented it as the average price for a Manhattan apartment. The media ate it up.

Barbara Corcoran

Past, Media, Average

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For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.

Bill Cosby

Senior, College, Next

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When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.

Mark Cuban

Team, Risk, Trying

"Lets Talk Mavs #MFFL" by Mark Cuban, www.businessinsider.com. August 3, 2013.

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New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

Andrew Cuomo

New York, Government, Boss

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For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

Chris Daughtry

Writing, Want, Kind

Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. January 10, 2007.

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