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• Traveling to Europe and traveling in the U.S.A. was a much different experience. 'On the Road' exemplified everything glamorous that was happening on this side of the planet. The book puts off some kind of sweet melody - part hope for the world, part nostalgic.

  Edward Ruscha

  Sweet, Book, Europe

  "Ed Ruscha on Kerouac, Social Media and Pop Culture in the 1960s". Interview with Tara Solomon, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Being on Ozzfest has been a great way for us to break out and show metal fans that we have a heavy side.

  Adam Rich

  Metal Fans, Break Out, Way

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• The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  People, Car, Atrocities

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• This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Children, Thinking, Parent

  "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers - Geoffrey Rush" by James Ashwood, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.

  Harold Ramis

  Country, Feelings, Clubs

  "Harold Ramis: Expect the Unexpected". Psychology Today interview, www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

  Martha Reeves

  Castles, Want, Towns

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• When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side."

  Michael Rapaport

  Song, Kids, Wild Side

  "Michael Rapaport’s Vision Quest". Interview with Steven Prigge, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 24, 2011.

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• But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.

  Ali Smith

  Style, Ingredients, Lists

  Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

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• We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Country, Pride, Proud

  "Patriotism and Michelle Obama: A 4th of July Reflection" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2008.

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• I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I'm supposed to go in a direction, I'm fully committed and I go all the way. Everything falls to the side and I'm all in. So I completely dove into acting even though I was almost 30.

  Sonja Sohn

  Fall, College, Years

  "Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2012.

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• Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.

  Boz Scaggs

  Black, Radio, Grew Up

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• My mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. I save all my problems for my mother.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Mother, Advice, Problem

  Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on 'Top Chef.

  Curtis Stone

  Thinking, People, Add

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• I mean, there'll always be room for big productions and everything but it's good to see the other side.

  Emeli Sande

  Mean, Rooms, Bigs

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• I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.

  Eric Stoltz

  Fashion, Dark, Thinking

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• Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Men, Important, Talent

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• I think what I've actually achieved as a manager does sometimes get a bit overlooked, because all people think about is the media side of things. They tend to forget I've not done so bad.

  Gordon Strachan

  Thinking, Media, People

  "Gordon Strachan: 'And people think I've got a problem with the press...'". Interview with Richard Rae, www.independent.co.uk. August 21, 2010.

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• Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.

  Imelda Staunton

  Mother, Thinking, Space

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• To Koreans on the other side, we care about your freedom.

  Kim Young-sam

  Care, Korean, Your Freedom

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• It's great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if you will. Normally, you don't get that opportunity. The narrative of a movie usually demands that you are that guy from the start.

  Mark Strong

  Character, Dark, Opportunity

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• She is by my side, as my sister, but he is my soul.He is my enemy, my tormentor, my demon.He is my beloved.

  Gillian Shields

  Soul, Enemy, Mentor

  Gillian Shields (2009). “Immortal”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• Be aware of the dark side of others that seek to interfere with our evolution. Keep distant and closed to such beings, recognizing that they are part of the universal process too, but not a part that we need to be open to at this time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dark, Needs, Evolution

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• If you're not sure about whether to support Mitt Romney, whether you're liberal, or whether you're very conservative, you ought to be excited, because he's been on your side at one time or another. So I'm not completely misunderstood. I'm not as excited as I am desperate.

  Louie Gohmert

  Your Side, Support, Misunderstood

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• Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."

  Saint Augustine

  Father, Believe, Men

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• A child is imprinted not by simply teaching. But their attention is like soft clay. The attention field of adults is stratified. They are like hard clay and we push them on each side of the child's attention field.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Teaching, Buddhism

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