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• Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Loss, Terrorist Groups, Manhattan

  "Q & A / Kevin Mitnick / Ex-hacker shares secrets of deception / Mitnick says 'social engineers' play big role in cyber attacks". Interview With Verne Kopytoff, www.sfgate.com. October 28, 2002.

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• I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Real, Green Gables, Changed

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of Green Gables”, p.227, Xist Publishing

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• Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Stars, Twilight, Night

  Anne of Green Gables ch. 17 (1908)

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• When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

  Robert Moog

  Doe, Machines, Information

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• I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.

  Michael Moore

  Hard Work, Thinking, Arrogance

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• If you're in a diabetic or prediabetic state, it's good to have medication to go on for a period of time. But simply by making the changes - get your sleep, 35 grams of fiber and a half-hour walk - your cholesterol will come down, your sugar will come down, and your blood pressure will come down. Only the minority of people can't control it.

  Michael Moore

  Sleep, Blood, People

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• My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

  Alanis Morissette

  Intense Emotions, Deals, Approach

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• By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Friendship, Grandchildren, Talking

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way of doing a job - on instinct based on all the research we did going in. you want to trust yourself and your director and your acting partners in the circumstances you're shooting. I don't like to have any kind of overview.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Jobs, Acting, Directors

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• I edit things down, and I've got a massive dressing room in the country, and so all the things I'm not going to wear but don't want to get rid of go there. And all the stuff I want to get rid of goes to Oxfam.

  Kate Moss

  Country, Want, Oxfam

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.

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• I feel that people I trusted - I don't know who, on what level - have let me down, and I think they have behaved disgracefully, and it's for them to pay. And I think, frankly, that I'm the best person to see it through.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Thinking, People, Levels

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• Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure.

  Liam Neeson

  Girl, Thinking, Men

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• I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

  Jo Nesbo

  Selfish, Heart, Thinking

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• You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Jumping, Numbers, Literature

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• I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

  Ben Okri

  Doe, Up And Down

  "Ben Okri: My family values". Interview with Juliet Rix, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2010.

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• I learned how to play the drums. When we were in pre-production, when we were still in LA, I had a couple of drum lessons and then some in Toronto. I got the one beat down and that was it.

  Mary-Kate Olsen

  Couple, Play, Toronto

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• People often panic when the markets go down and sell off their stocks - but then they aren't in the game when the markets are doing well.

  Suze Orman

  Games, People, Panic

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• I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that's not in me. I want to lift people up.

  Joel Osteen

  Thinking, People, Want

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 23, 2007.

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• I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

  Jesse Owens

  Motivational, Air, Feet

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

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• If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

  Satchel Paige

  Lying, Carrying On, Stomach

  "How to Keep Young," Collier's, 13 June 1953

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• They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.

  Sarah Palin

  Smart, Thinking, Ems

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• In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Prayer, Names, People

  "Mandy Patinkin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2012.

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• I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

  Ron Perlman

  Fighting, Thinking, People

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

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• I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, Swimming, Needs

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• I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don't know I'm only using blanks.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Running, Children

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