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• I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

  Erykah Badu

  Play, Two, Three

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• Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Weather, Painting

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2476, Delphi Classics

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• You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Bridges, Looks, Gone

  "Meet The Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Funny, Death, Dying

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.414, Wordsworth Editions

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• Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Thinking, Space

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• I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know.

  Claire Danes

  Girl, Jealous, Boys

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• Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fall

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• If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

  Abba Eban

  Israel, Algeria, Earth

  "A fence built for peace" by Abba Eban, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004.

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• What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Fall, Looks, Rehearsal

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• No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

  Thomas Friedman

  Political, World, Elites

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• My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are.

  Goldie Hawn

  Eye, Two, People

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• Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

  Nick Hornby

  Sad, Complicated, Bleakness

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• Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

  John Milton

  Moon, Light, Sea

  'Comus' (1637) l. 373

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• You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Tubas, Way, Trumpets

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• I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

  Roy Orbison

  Funny, May, Legends

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• Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Blood, People

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.231, NYU Press

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• I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.

  John Betjeman

  Visions Of The Future, Towers, Fields

  John Betjeman (2005). “Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of Betjeman's Religious Verse”, p.177, A&C Black

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• I hate my stomach. It's impossible to get it flat, and the area around my belly button drives me crazy.

  Carmen Electra

  Hate, Crazy, Buttons

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• Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.

  Urs Fischer

  Relief, Add, Sculpture

  Interview with Gavin Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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• You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.

  Ryan Adams

  Army, Sushi, Cleaning

  "Is this it?". www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2008.

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• When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie,' and I decided I wanted to audition with her. My mom was worried I would fall flat on my face because I'd never opened my mouth to sing, so she sent me to vocal lessons. I did the audition and fell in love with the entire process of a show.

  Jacqueline Emerson

  Mom, Fall, Years

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• Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.

  Chuck Berry

  Controversy

  Song: You Can't Catch Me

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• I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Lonely, Children, Responsibility

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• I was living in New York City and flat broke. My next door neighbor was an actor and he always seemed to be having more fun than I was. He convinced me to give acting a shot, but because of my shyness I was sure it would be a lost cause.

  Joe Flanigan

  New York, Fun, Doors

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