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• I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write to protect them. It's far too late for that. I write to give them weapons-in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.

  Sherman Alexie

  Teenager, Book, Writing

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• I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through.

  Richard Siken

  Giving, Burning, Building

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• The media character-assassinated me and perceived me as this monster. When you look at my record ... I jumped a taxi as a 21-year-old, which I'm sorry for, and I urinated twice in public. That's in 11 years of football. I've never assaulted women and never been done for drink driving. My conscience is clear.

  Willie Mason

  Football, Sorry, Character

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• If when you say 'whiskey' you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason... then I am certainly against it. But, if when you say 'whiskey' you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine... the drink that enables a man to magnify his joy... then I am certainly for it. This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise.

  Noah S. Sweat

  Wine, Mean, Men

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• 'Come back here, I'm a police officer!' and I shouted back 'No you're not! You're a monster!'

  Russell Howard

  Funny, Humor, Police

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• I don't particularly like babies. They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding. No matter how much free day care you throw at women, babies are still time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness.

  Amanda Marcotte

  Baby, Day Care, Matter

  "The Real Debate Isn’t About “Life” But About What We Expect Of Women" by Amanda Marcotte, www.rawstory.com. March 14, 2014.

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• Racing serves as a formal demonstration of your ability to ride the three-headed monster. The first monster is your physical preparation-lifting weights for strength, running for endurance, working on your technique. The second monster is your mental preparation-all our jabbering about humility, battling for your life, taking complete responsibility for the outcome. The last monster is your X Factor, your soul, your courage. Taken altogether, I call this three-headed monster the Process of Winning.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Running, Taken, Responsibility

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• I never set limits or created mental barriers. You may have read that I imagined my biceps as big as mountain peaks when I did my curling exercises. This visualization process was essential if I was to gain the kind of mass and size I needed to win the mr Olympia contest against monsters like Sergio Olivia and Lou ferrigno.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Exercise, Bodybuilding, Winning

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• The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Wrath, Great Depression

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.27, Hamilton Books

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• People actually were worried that I was going to get stereotyped as a monster after Freddy, but my God, I got stereotyped as white trash for years, the best friend for years, the redneck for years, the nerd for years and let me tell you...it's better to be a monster than to be a nerd.

  Robert Englund

  Redneck, Years, White

  Arrow interview, www.joblo.com. February 7, 2003.

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• I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Truth, Miracle, Greater

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• Monsters, among other brutes, are the ones without guilt feelings. Perhaps Hitler did not have any, or Himmler, or Stalin. Maybe Mafia bosses do not have any guilt feelings either, or maybe their remains are just well hidden in the cellar. Even aborted guilt feelings...All men need guilt feelings.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Boss, Feelings

  Pope Benedict XVI (2006). “On conscience: two essays”, Natl Catholic Bioethics Center

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• Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Devil, Assuming

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 160

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• Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.

  John Ford

  Men, Evil, Praying

  'The Lady's Trial' (1639) act 3, sc. 1

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• Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces. As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us. In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won't dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.

  Alan Cooper

  Running, Powerful, Hopeful

  Alan Cooper (1999). “The Inmates are Running the Asylum”, Sams Publishing

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• Kunlun Mountain Over the earth the greenblue monster Kunlun who has seen all spring color and passion of men. Three million dragons of white jade soar and freeze the whole sky with snow. When a summer sun heats the globe rivers flood and men turn into fish and turtles. Who can judge a thousand years of accomplishments or failures?

  Mao Zedong

  Summer, Spring, Passion

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.65, Univ of California Press

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• His specialty was interrogation. Imagine it, gentlemen. Being strapped to a table so that you are entirely at the mercy of a monster such as this. A person who delights in your pain. A person to whom your screams are more delicious than a lover's whisper. A creature who knows how to keep you alive while he skillfully and meticulously deconstructs those things that define you as human?

  Jonathan Maberry

  Pain, Gentleman, Delight

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• When I die, they'll say Lady Gaga was special but her fans, her Monsters, they were really something

  Lady Gaga

  Special, Fans, Gaga

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• If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves

  Junot Diaz

  Reflection, Levels, Want

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• Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.

  John Steinbeck

  Ocean, Sleep, Men

  Sea of Cortez ch. 4 (1941)

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• I'm a perfectionist in recovery. I'm trying to deal with that monster inside of me that wants to do everything right. Or better than right.

  Shakira

  Recovery, Perfection, Trying

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• We monsters are necessary to nature also.

  Marquis de Sade

  Intriguing

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• Wealthy individuals bought themselves a radical right party, believing - correctly - that it would cut their taxes and remove regulations, but failed to realize that eventually the craziness would take on a life of its own, and that the monster they created would turn on its creators as well as the little people.

  Paul Krugman

  Party, Believe, Cutting

  "The Economics and Politics of Chaos" by Paul Krugman, krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. October 01, 2013.

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• My philosophy is to "kill the monster while it's little." The best time to handle a "negative" emotion is when you first begin to feel it. It's much more difficult to interrupt an emotional pattern once it's full-blown.

  Tony Robbins

  Philosophy, Emotional, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Sep 12, 2014

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• Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when I don’t write. On the contrary, it is far worse, wholly unbearable, and inevitably ends in madness. This is, of course, only on the assumption that I am a writer even when I don’t write - which is indeed the case; and a non-writing writer is, in fact, a monster courting insanity.

  Franz Kafka

  Writing, Mean, Insanity

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