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• I always say that I love magic but I hate magicians. I like being fooled. If you wave your hands in front of my face and I think you're doing a trick, I'm easily impressed. If you pull a quarter out of my ear, I'm quite certain you're a wizard. But I don't like the way most magicians don't act like they're magical; they act like show business dicks.

  Greg Behrendt

  Hate, Thinking, Hands

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• We had our family tree done... turns out I'm a quarter gay on my father's side.

  Brian Posehn

  Family, Father, Gay

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• Speaking of Quarterback nicknames, you hear they're calling Jay Cutler 50 cent? Because you only get two quarters out of him.

  Frank Caliendo

  Two, Calling, Nicknames

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• I hate nickels; they're quarter impersonators.

  Gary Gulman

  Hate, Nickels, Impersonators

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• The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was the quarter from behind the ear gag. He would never put the time in.

  Gary Gulman

  Devil, Ears, Tricks

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• Never, ever wear three-quarter length trousers. Even in the summer.

  Andrew Scott

  Summer, Three, Length

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

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• Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.

  Mark Twain

  Giving, Furniture, Break

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.185, Courier Corporation

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• When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole African-American, French, white mixing of races. That's what the French Quarter is: it's a Creole community.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  New Orleans, Race, Play

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• I think when you leave a band in any situation that you are a part of.. I mean, when I was with It Bites I was a quarter of something, and when I was with Robert Plant I was a sixth of some- thing and when you leave you become the whole thing. So just after you spend time realizing what you are, and it just happened that I was doing that in my life as well as musically, it kind of happened at the same time. I was getting to a point in my life where I was beginning to realize who I am, and I like me.

  Francis Dunnery

  Mean, Thinking, Who I Am

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• If we operate with a belief in long sweeps of time, we build cathedrals; if we operate from fiscal quarter to fiscal quarter, we build ugly shopping malls.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Shopping, Long, Ugly

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• There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Successful, Example, Lasts

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• Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Literature, Statistics, Accounting

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.121, Bantam

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• To claim - to claim repeatedly - that you are innocent of what it is claimed by others that you have done, or might have done, or are in some quarters strongly suspected of having done, is never enough unless others, numerous others, will say it for you.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Done, Might, Innocent

  Joyce Carol Oates (2010). “Little Bird of Heaven”, p.23, HarperCollins UK

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• Looking out at this quarter of a million people,... I truly believed, at that moment, it was possible that human beings could join together to make a positive social change.

  Mary Travers

  People, Together, Moments

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• People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want to buy a quarter-inch hole!

  Theodore Levitt

  People, Want, Holes

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• But as we went on, and you keep practicing and rehearsing more and more fight scenes, it clicks and you just get it. It's almost like a soccer game. If you take enough shots on target, one of them is going to go in. As soon as it does, something happens and it just registers. I found it a lot easier after that, which was about three-quarters of the way through the shoot.

  Luke Pasqualino

  Soccer, Fighting, Games

  Source: collider.com

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• Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That, as much as anything, may explain one of the more enduring conspiracy theories of the moment, the notion that we are about to send a quarter of a million American soldiers to war for the sake of Israel.

  Bill Keller

  War, Simple, Israel

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• I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. When body and mind are out of gear (and those twin parts of me live at such close quarters that the one always catches melancholy from the other) I know that I shall have only to call in my doctors and I shall be well again.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Doctors, Two, Mind

  G.M. Trevelyan (1949). “CLIO A MUSE AND OTHER ESSAYS”

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• War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Fog, Three

  On War bk. 1, ch. 3 (1832 - 1834).

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• Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of a century since his influence first began to spread, not a single musician who has mastered that language fails to make daily use, knowingly or unknowingly, of something that was invented by Louis Armstrong.

  Dan Morgenstern

  Keys, Three, Use

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• It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

  Ben Horowitz

  Goal, Executives

  "Old People" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. December 5, 2012.

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• Once upon a time there was a girl who discovered that if she played a certain tune on a jade flute, she could summon up jade gnomes, a peculiar, harmless, but rather creepy looking spirit of the underground. The fact is that many of us have talents like this, but generally never discover them due to lack of opportunity, since one can go one's entire life without playing a jade flute, or discovering that one can speak the language of ground sloths, or turning fruitcake into solid tungsten by singing Sinatra tunes to it under a quarter moon.

  Ursula Vernon

  Girl, Moon, Opportunity

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• The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.

  Chalmers Johnson

  War, Years, Dollars

  "Why We Fight", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, New Orleans, Order

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• As value investors, our business is to buy bargains that financial market theory says do not exist. We've delivered great returns to our clients for a quarter century-a dollar invested at inception in our largest fund is now worth over 94 dollars, a 20% net compound return. We have achieved this not by incurring high risk as financial theory would suggest, but by deliberately avoiding or hedging the risks that we identified.

  Seth Klarman

  Risk, Return, Clients

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