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• Some people think it's because '24' was jump-started by what happened on 9/11. That was never why we made the show. We started production six months prior to 9/11, and we'd already done ten episodes.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Thinking, People, Six Months

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• People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.

  Taylor Swift

  Missing Someone, People, Trying

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• I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Knowing, Skins

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• Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Getting Back Together, Studios

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• The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers.

  Matt Taibbi

  Cutting, Organization, Giving

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• It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for.

  Matt Taibbi

  Safe, Financial, Compass

  "The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis" by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. June 19, 2013.

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• I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Two, Mind, Balls

  "‘I’ve Got to Be Myself’: The Sachin Tendulkar Interview". Interview with Bobby Ghosh, keepingscore.blogs.time.com. May 9, 2012.

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• I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened.

  Randall Terry

  Running, Adultery, Made

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• You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.

  Charlize Theron

  Mom, Mother, Thinking

  "Charlize Theron Talks Adopting & Single Motherhood", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2012.

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• I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.

  Helen Thomas

  People, Understanding, Middle East

  "History Cannot Save Bush". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.alternet.org. January 13, 2009.

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• I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Smart, Mean, Admiration

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• In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

  Gene Tierney

  War, Ocean, Europe

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain - that's what I really think has happened here.

  John Travolta

  Pain, Believe, Thinking

  "John Travolta: 'I don't think I would be here without Scientology'". Interview with Carmen Gray, www.theguardian.com. July 04, 2013.

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• I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  Attributed in Reader's Digest, Apr. 1934. A similar remark, attributed to an anonymous octogenarian, appears in the Washington Post, 11 Sept. 1910. See Jefferson 42

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• When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

  Mark Twain

  Birthday, Growing Up, Memories

  "Mark Twain's Own Autobiography," North American Review, 1 Mar. 1907

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• Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

  Steven Tyler

  Drug, Soul, Way

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• Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Judgment, Said

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• Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Mars, Dry, Earth

  Interview with Don Cohen, appel.nasa.gov. June 1, 2008.

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• I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Opportunity, Hands, Two

  "This much I know" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2009.

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• The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

  Bob Uecker

  Son, Errors, Games

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

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• At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

  Carrie Underwood

  Years, People, Skins

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• I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Believe, Order, Would Be

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• I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Past, Focus, Care

  Hungarian GP: Thursday press conference, www.motorsport.com. June 8, 2007.

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• It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Slaughterhouse Five, Literature

  Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death”, Random House LLC

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