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• I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Guitar, Bridges, Trying

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• I love Buster Keaton. I was a big fan of the stunt shows at Universal Studios. I'm a huge Cirque du Soleil nut.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Fans, Bigs, Universal Studios

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• I know what happens every time I get in front of a UK crowd - they just go nuts and they are so nice and excited and crazy and they won't sit down.

  Hulk Hogan

  Crazy, Nice, Crowds

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• Everybody prefers to see a nut - they're more fascinating.

  Penn Jillette

  Fascinating

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

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• The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It's not for us. It's maybe for our descendants who have mastered the energy of this technology. So if one day, somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great great great great granddaughter, don't slam the door.

  Michio Kaku

  Technology, Doors, Granddaughter

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• I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you nuts.'

  Elmore Leonard

  Fun, Writing, Long

  "The Most Important Writing Tip the Late Elmore Leonard Ever Gave" by Asawin Suebsaeng, www.motherjones.com. August 20, 2013.

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• If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.

  Rick Mercer

  Weekend, Long, Tea

  "'Canadian Jon Stewart' Explains Thanksgiving". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 9, 2010.

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• I'm a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week, and if I'm not doing anything at night, I'm usually watching a movie or two.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Night, Two, Week

  "Ashley Bell and Dominic Monaghan Talk THE DAY, Wielding Weapons, Surviving the Apocalypse, and THE LAST EXORCISM 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 27, 2012.

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• I have lots of favorites movies. I say this only because it's a favorite movie because it's a sport I love. I'm a huge baseball fan. There are movies I like as much as this, but I sort of single this movie out because I'm a baseball nut, and that's 'Field of Dreams.'

  Rick Santorum

  Sports, Baseball, Dream

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• I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.

  Eliot Spitzer

  School, Thinking, Skills

  Interview with Stephen Mooallem, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2009.

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• I was in the Pritikin Center in Santa Monica once, trying to lose 30 or 40 pounds in a month. I'd work... on a treadmill and with the weights, but it was driving me nuts. So I escaped. Tom Arnold picked me up and we went to Le Dome and had tons of desserts.

  Chris Farley

  Trying, Pounds, Weight

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hate belongings. I hate clutter. It really bothers me because I can't think properly. If you've got distractions in front of you, your mind goes nuts.

  Simon Cowell

  Hate, Thinking, Mind

  "'I'm quite odd. I do get very dark moods': Simon Cowell's most revealing - and surprising - interview ever". Interview with Rebecca Hardy, www.dailymail.co.uk. May 23, 2009.

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• The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.

  Gail Collins

  Cutting, College, Government

  "The Value of College". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

  John Cleese

  Sports, London, West

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• Lady, I was gonna cut you some slack, 'cause you're a major mythological figure...but now you've just gone nuts!

  Mike Mignola

  Cutting, Gone, Causes

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• Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Tree, Nineteen

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 7 (1949)

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• April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, all passion is really a setup, and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: Who cares? Every spring I go out there anyway, around the bend, unconditionally. ... Come the end of the dark days, I am more than joyful. I'm nuts.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Crazy, Spring, Passion

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• The night was full of horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward full of nuts.

  Joseph Heller

  Night, World, Horror

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• It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!

  Nicholas Evans

  Horse, Cowboy, Equestrian

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• There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets sick, do you take it to the vet and amputate the fin? No, you clean the water. So, I cleaned up my system. By eating organic raw greens, nuts and healthy fats, I am flooding my body with enzymes, vitamins and oxygen.

  Kris Carr

  Dirty, Swimming, Doctors

  "Crazy, sexy...cancer?". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. July 31, 2007.

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• There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Peace, Men, Simplicity

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and other birds. They get the early worms. And have you ever watched a chicken eat? They may look innocent, but birds are, well, they're vicious.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wings, Bird, Looks

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Anansi Boys”, p.152, Hachette UK

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• That's right," said Eeyore. "Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself." "I am," said Pooh.

  A. A. Milne

  Gathering, May, Said

  A. A. Milne (1993). “Eeyore has a birthday”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.

  Michael J. Fox

  Ferrari, Earning, Six

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• I use a lot of spices, fresh veggies and fruit, extra virgin olive oil, nuts, avocado, soybeans and organic ingredients as often as possible. We need fat in our diets and using the healthier fats is key.

  Todd English

  Keys, Oil, Needs

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