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• I looked at No Child Left Behind after it was enacted and saw what happened and saw the expansion of the federal government and the role of education. And I said, you know, that was - that's not what I believe in.

  Rick Santorum

  Children, Believe, Government

  Interview with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. February 26, 2012.

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• I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

  Vidal Sassoon

  Morning, Night, Bruises

  "The Surprising Story Of The ’Anti-Fascist Warrior Hairdresser’ Vidal Sassoon" by Tiffany Gabbay, www.businessinsider.com. May 9, 2012.

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• It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.

  George Saunders

  Cutting, Fiction

  "This Week in Fiction: George Saunders" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Witty, Funny Life, Lying

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• I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all.

  Martin Scorsese

  New York, Thinking, Would Be

  "Dialogue: Martin Scorsese". Interview with Chris Gardner, www.backstage.com. January 6, 2003.

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• When 'American Pie' happened, I was so lucky to get that opportunity and I just tried to do a good job in that genre. But the films that inspired me as a kid were, like, Malcolm McDowall in 'A Clockwork Orange.' He was my hero.

  Sean William Scott

  Jobs, Hero, Kids

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• I have more faith in doing something creative for a cable station or something like Yahoo or Google or Amazon. What Netflix did with 'House of Cards' and David Fincher was brilliant. That is inspiring to me. I think there is more chance for creativity in animation, it just hasn't happened there yet.

  Henry Selick

  Creativity, Thinking, House Of Cards

  "Siggraph: Henry Selick Wants to Make Comedic, Live-Action Horror Films" by Carolyn Giardina, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 22, 2013.

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• Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.

  Vikram Seth

  Past, Thinking, Important

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• When I was growing up, my mother, who had been through a lot of terrible things in life, taught me that when life is tough your instinct is to close your heart. But if you can accept what happened and reach out to someone, there will always be someone less fortunate, or someone that can bring a solution and help your life.

  Jane Seymour

  Mother, Growing Up, Heart

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• But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.

  William Shatner

  Discovery, People, Want

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• When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.

  Mike Shinoda

  Tired, Waiting, Sound

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• It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandfathers or my grandmothers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

  Gene Simmons

  Mother, Book, Yesterday

  "Parker Spitzer" with Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer, www.cnn.com. December 2, 2010.

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• I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.

  Richard Simmons

  Cheer, Phones, Years

  "Pharaohs of fitness". Interview with Julie Deardorff, www.chicagotribune.com. April 18, 2012.

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• I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture.

  Peter Singer

  Book, Thinking, Possibility

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• What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Thinking, Sept 11, Given

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• Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Data, Cry

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• The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

  Thomas Sowell

  Way, Economy, Explanation

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.97, Basic Books

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• I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.

  Steven Spielberg

  Father, Thinking, Light

  "Spielberg: A director's life reflected in film". "60 Minutes" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. January 10, 2013.

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• You know what I think happened? After 'Rocky,' I was almost set up in the eyes of the media to make a flop.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Eye, Thinking, Media

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• The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You're going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Memorable, Men, Two

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• I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.

  Dan Stevens

  Kids, Thinking, Young

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

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• Usually, at the end of a film it's like I've finally gotten to know this person completely, and then we're done. That actually happened on the set of Twilight, and then it happened again on New Moon. Each time my character Bella became a different person, and I got to know that person and take her to the next level.

  Kristen Stewart

  Twilight, Character, Moon

  Interview with Dennis Hopper, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2009.

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• Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?'' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

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• I get asked sometimes 'What's the highlight of my career?' because I've been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time coming up with something, because so many good things have happened.

  George Strait

  Hard Times, Careers, Long

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• Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money in protecting against something that may or may not happen in the future.

  James Surowiecki

  Shells, May, Victim

  "Disaster Economics". www.newyorker.com. December 3, 2012.

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