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• In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

  John Knox

  Age, Battle, Youth

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• I haven't had sex in two and a half years. A guy I met in San Francisco gave me a sympathy blow job. It didn't really work. I said, "You're just doing this 'cause you feel sorry for me." We stopped in the middle.

  Kevin Sessums

  Jobs, Sex, Sorry

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.

  Keith Rabois

  Two, Office, Venture Capitalists

  "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by Keith Rabois, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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• I want every scene to feel electric and I try to finish the filming period with a clear trajectory: a beginning, a middle, and hopefully an end.I hate "fly on the wall." It infers that I don't relate to the people we're with and that I don't get affected by events. I like it when people talk to me. I never say things like "Don't look at the camera" - how bossy!

  Kim Longinotto

  Wall, Hate, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There's something I really like about network TV. You have this humongous audience, tens of millions of people, and you really can be in a little hut in Thailand; you really can be in the middle of an apartment in Dubai. There's something about public entertainment that I always liked. I like smaller movies, and I like public entertainment.

  Patricia Arquette

  Dubai, People, Thailand

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I've been broke more than I've been rich. I like being in the middle way better.

  Reagan Gomez-Preston

  Way, Rich, Broke

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I've heard doctors say that before the crisis hits, people don't want prolonged measures, but then in the middle of the crisis they want everything.

  Katy Butler

  Doctors, People, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's been kind of extreme - people either love it or they don't like it at all - and I think that's a good thing. It's my first art project where there's not a middle ground. I find it very interesting. But the negative feedback hasn't at all kept me from doing it, obviously. Because I haven't really gotten any negative feedback that I feel is really warranted.

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Art, Thinking, People

  "Meet the Woman Who Waged an Artistic War Against Her Street Harassers". Interview with Nina Liss-schultz, www.motherjones.com. November 27, 2013.

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• Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.

  Maya Angelou

  Jealous, Mean, Night

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• When I visit schools and talk to students about writing, I give them one word of advice and I give it to them quickly and loudly-FINISH! Starting something is easier than finishing it. You must have discipline to go from a few sentences, to a few paragraphs, to a piece of writing that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Finishing something bridges the difference between someone who has talent and one who does not. My best advice? Apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair-and finish. FINISH!

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Writing, School, Bridges

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• Middle-age has its compensations. You feel no need to do what you do not like. You are no longer ashamed of yourself; you are reconciled to being what you are, and you do not much mind what people think of you.

  Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Class, People, Giving

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• Hold a baseball in your hand ... Feel the ball, turn it over in your hand; hold it across the seam or the other way, with the seam just to the side of your middle finger. Speculation stirs. You want to get outdoors and throw this spare and sensual object to somebody or, at the very least, watch somebody else throw it. The game has begun.

  Roger Angell

  Baseball, Hands, Games

  Roger Angell (2013). “Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion”, p.5, Open Road Media

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• Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.

  Oliver DeMille

  Class, Leader, Political

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• Perception has always interested me. The idea thatbehind every face, there are a thousand faces. Beneath the placidveneer of middle America, there lies terror.

  Bryan Singer

  Lying, Ideas, America

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• A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner...but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Opportunity, Men, Illinois

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• Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement.

  Norman Jewison

  Night, Rights, Perfect

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• The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.

  Bill Gates

  Age, Gutenberg, Culture

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.

  Julia Bacha

  Powerful, Heart, Successful

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• People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.

  Stevie Smith

  Past, People, Age

  'The Past' (1957)

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• Basically you can do anything in a film. I could have place a spaceship in the middle of a street. You can do anything, and I love to talk about this because is so organic to the process.

  Kleber Mendonca Filho

  Film, Process, Spaceships

  "Interview: Kebler Mendonça Filho on his film ‘Neighboring Sounds’". Interview with Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. December 5, 2013.

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• Going to a site with more users seems obviously better to me, but at the same time, having a bland, middle of the road profile with bland, middle of the road pictures seems like a bad strategy to me.

  Christian Rudder

  Strategy, Profile, Site

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We often forget that Spain controlled big parts of Europe, in Italy and the Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, Spain and Portugal were so powerful that they signed a set of treaties literally dividing up the globe between them.

  Max Fisher

  Powerful, Europe, Age

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American business. 35 percent corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. We need to lower it so they don’t leave.

  Lindsey Graham

  Jobs, Class, America

  Lindsey Graham at GOP primary debate at the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, Colorado, time.com. October 28, 2015.

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• We can talk about corporations all day long but my goal is to help the middle class, somebody who makes too much to be on government assistance but still lives paycheck to paycheck.

  Lindsey Graham

  Government, Class, Long

  Lindsey Graham at GOP primary debate at the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, Colorado, time.com. October 28, 2015.

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