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• We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.

  Gene Ween

  Money, Records, Certain

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• Now in a way, money is money, and if it's going to increase our audience, that's fine.

  Gene Ween

  Money, Way, Increase

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.

  Alan Shepard

  Opportunity, Men, Space

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• So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?

  James Woods

  Politics, Want, Way

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• It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.

  Andrew Wiles

  Work, Long, Interesting

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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• There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Beauty, Too Much, Brilliant

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• As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Mother, Pride, Gay

  Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.42, Broadview Press

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• Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Pride, Sound, Abjection

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2541, Delphi Classics

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• We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.

  John L. Phillips

  Jobs, Pigs, Space

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• During a panic attack, I remember that today is just today and that is all that it is. I take a deep breath in and I realize that in this moment I am fine and everything is okay. More importantly, I am reminded that my A.P.C. jeans are so perfectly worn in that they are appropriate for any season and I am suddenly at ease.

  Max Greenfield

  Jeans, Panic, Today

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Certainly the caffeine in coffee, whether it's Starbucks or generic coffee, is somewhat of a stimulant. But if you drink it in moderation, which I think four or five cups a day is, you're fine.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Thinking, Four

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• It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.

  James A. Michener

  Work, Thinking, Years

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• Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it's a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one.

  Laini Taylor

  Love, Long, Age

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• Animals aren't property, and the law generally finds it acceptable to use and kill animals for human gain, imposing prison terms and steep fines on large corporations-who have even larger lawyers-is rare.

  Charlotte Laws

  Animal, Law, Use

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• It's certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat.

  William Butler Yeats

  Crazy, Women, Meat

  "A Prayer for my Daughter" l. 30 (1919)

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• A thing that has always baffled me about women is that they will saturate themselves with a pint of perfume, a pound of sachet powder, an evil-smelling lip rouge, a peculiar-smelling hair ointment and a half-dozen varieties of body oils, and then have the effrontery to complain of the aroma of a fine dollar cigar.

  Groucho Marx

  Women, Hair, Oil

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• Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Women, Watches

  Kurt Vonnegut (1971). “Happy Birthday, Wanda June: A Play”, Delta

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• I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this is the first attempt I have ever made & yet I perceive I shall soon & easily acquire a fine facility in its use. ... The machine has several virtues. I believe it will print faster than I can write. One may lean back in his chair & work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around. Of course it saves paper.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Writing, Typewriters

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• O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.

  William Butler Yeats

  Rogues, Worst, Died

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.175, Wordsworth Editions

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• It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fall, Needs, Adam

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.64, Wordsworth Editions

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• Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.

  Nicholas Haslam

  Upper Class, Piano, House

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• Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Cities, Venice, Would Be

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• I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

  David Bowie

  Inspiring, Dream, Reality

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• I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on set, I don't have to go to the bathroom, I don't have anything wrong, I'm perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I'm not hungry. I'm literally not even in my own body.

  Kristen Stewart

  Funny, Body, Want

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• To work hard and then loaf; to know hardship and then luxury, to learn about society and then color it with a dash of the wilds-is there anything quite so fine?

  Elliott Merrick

  Hard Work, Color, Luxury

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