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• Chris proposed exactly the way I've always dreamed. Our families were close by, but it was just us out on a beautiful deck overlooking a lake in East Tennessee. We had just been on a hike and - in our workout clothes - he hit the knee! We feel so blessed by God that He sent us each other, and we are looking so forward to forever together.

  Hillary Scott

  Beautiful, Workout, Blessed

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• If you want to go east, don't go west.

  Ramakrishna

  Want, West, Ifs

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• The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Opportunity, Reality, People

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• California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it.

  Eric Ripert

  Winter, Florida, Weather

  "Q & A With Eric Ripert: His New Book, More Fun With PBS + Le Bernardin's Numbers". LA Weekly Interview, www.laweekly.com. January 14, 2011.

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• In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.

  Paul Robeson

  Land, Class, Hysteria

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• For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and making that my stomping ground... That was a big thing, because I'm from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds.

  ASAP Rocky

  Growing Up, Downtown, World

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• Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.

  Galen Rowell

  Photography, American West, People

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• I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.

  Salman Rushdie

  No Friends, Middle East, United States

  "Terror Is Glamour". "Spiegel" Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely.

  Jerry Saltz

  Queens, Ocean, Rivers

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• In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us.

  Bernie Sanders

  Mean, California, People

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

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• The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

  Jose Saramago

  Easter, Military, Uzbekistan

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• I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

  Jose Saramago

  Rivers, Small Villages, Peasants

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• The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Easter, Real, War

  "THE CULTUREPULP Q&A: 'Persepolis' creator Marjane Satrapi". Interview with Mike Russell, culturepulp.typepad.com. January 25, 2008.

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• This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Christian, Doe, Culture

  "Connect the World" with Becky Anderson, www.cnn.com. February 27, 2012.

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• I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

  Liev Schreiber

  New York, Sides, Grew Up

  "Showbiz Today Star of Tomorrow". "Showbiz Today Star of Tomorrow" with Lori Blackman, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2000.

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• I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

  Martin Scorsese

  Italian, Sides, Grew Up

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• The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.

  Martin Scorsese

  World, London, Facts

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• If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.

  Tupac Shakur

  Easter, Believe, Death Row

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

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• It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

  William Shatner

  Summer, Kids, Three

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• John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

  Norodom Sihanouk

  Organization, Asia, Exhausted

  Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Wilfred G. Burchett (1973). “My war with the CIA: Cambodia's fight for survival”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.

  Shel Silverstein

  Reading, Journey, Years

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• I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

  Steven Spielberg

  Art, Book, Thinking

  "Spielberg: Israel entitled to strong response" by Yitzhak Benhorin, www.ynetnews.com. June 12, 2005.

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• I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.

  Paul Stanley

  Kids, Weekend, Night

  "Q&A: Kiss' Paul Stanley on New Album 'Monster' and Defining Rock & Roll". Interview with Steve Appleford, www.rollingstone.com. October 09, 2012.

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• Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it.

  Payne Stewart

  Country, Patriotic, Usa

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• So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.

  Michael Stipe

  Southern, Band, Athens

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