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• I remember talking to my dad about legalization in a book we did together called "The Big Empty." He was saying like, "Oh, no, no, as soon as it's legalized it will be ruined." "The corporations will get their hands on it. You'll have, you know, pot with vitamin C and, you know, 'Viagratized High Toke.'" You know different things like that. That it won't be, you know, they'll put chemicals into it. It won't be that pure plant that it is now. He may have a good point there.

  John Buffalo Mailer

  Dad, Book, Together

  Source: bigthink.com

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• My philosophy is the balance of remembering the past but not living in it, to know where you are in the moment, to project a little in the future and be ready to change. It's how you experience the grace to enjoy the smell of the pavement after a rain - the little things in life to make you satisfied. I never settle for anything that doesn't give me a modicum of pleasure if not total joy and satisfaction. It's allowed, that's what we're supposed to feel. How can we, from an empty cup, offer a stranger a drink of water? You have to fill that cup to the brim!

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Philosophy, Rain, Past

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.

  Pietro Aretino

  Home, Men, Deceit

  Pietro Aretino (2003). “The School of Whoredom”, Hesperus Press

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• The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln.

  Russell Baker

  Book, Reading, Ambition

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• There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Dream, Communication, Men

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.50, Verso

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• Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

  Annie Besant

  Fashion, Thinking, Atheism

  M V Srinivasa Aiyangar, Annie Besant (1915). “An Open Letter to Mrs. Annie Besant: Being a Reply to Her Attacks on Hinduism”

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• Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in which intelligence could clothe itself.

  Annie Besant

  Space, Earth, Void

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.348, Jazzybee Verlag

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• My fashion philosophy is, if you're not covered in dog hair, your life is empty.

  Elayne Boosler

  Dog, Fashion, Philosophy

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• The biggest empty space, the biggest gap in what should be a premier and always vibrant food scene in America is that we don't have hawker centers like they do in Singapore, basically food courts where mom and pop specialists can set up shop in fairly hygienic little stalls all up to health code making one dish they've been doing forever and ever.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mom, America, Space

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• I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

  David Bowie

  Religious, Buddhist, Powerful

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• The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

  David Brainerd

  Spiritual, Hard Times, Space

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.122

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• Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

  Richard Brautigan

  Space, Perfection, Lovely

  "An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey". Book by Richard Brautigan, p.15, 2000.

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• Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty stomach. And forget power breakfasts. There is no convincing anyone of anything before 10 A.M.

  Joyce Brothers

  People, Trying, Breakfast

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• I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of water. Then I have a protein drink or I eat egg whites.

  Drew Carey

  Running, Morning, Eggs

  "Drew Carey: 'I feel like I'm aging in reverse'". Interview with Mary Brophy Marcus, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 8, 2011.

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• I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.

  Dave Chappelle

  Children, People, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

  Lee Child

  Writing, Email, Three

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• Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

  Diane Cilento

  Nice, Naughty, House

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• I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Memories, Pride, Race

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• I don't even pretend we can occupy the Lib Dem holier-than-thou, hands-entirely-clean-and-entirely-empty-type stance. No, we are getting our hands dirty, and inevitably and totally understandably we are being accused of being just like any other politicians.

  Nick Clegg

  Dirty, Naughty, Hands

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• This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It's because kids - and this is the problem with school lunch right now - are getting sugar, fat, empty calories - lots of calories - but no nutrition.

  Tom Colicchio

  School, Kids, Exercise

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• The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years.

  Paula Deen

  Sweet, Giving Up, Drinking

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• Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.

  Maureen Dowd

  Reading, Bells, Pixels

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• Honor is but an empty bubble.

  John Dryden

  Honor, Bubbles

  John Dryden (2013). “Selected Poems”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

  Jane Fonda

  Feels, Moved, Felt

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• Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

  Thomas Frank

  Promise, Campaigns, Rhetoric

  "Bipartisanship Is a Silly Beltway Obsession" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2009.

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