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• If I were president? First thing I'd do is take care of the schoolteachers. I'm not saying we should start 'em out with six figures, but in some places they've got to be mother, father, brother, sister, and mentor. They're real important people. Let's give 'em a raise - and attract the best people to the job.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Mother, Brother, Jobs

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• I used to have a group called Bad-Movie Saturday. Every Saturday, six of us would go see the worst movie that came out each weekend. It'd be noon in Burbank. It was just a running commentary. All executives - we would each talk through the movie and make jokes.

  Jason Reitman

  Running, Weekend, Romance

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• I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Running, Yoga, Rocks

  "Ennifer Lawrence On 'Hunger Games,' 'Transformers' Announces World Premiere In Today's Dailies" by Josh Wigler, www.mtv.com. May 23, 2011.

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• This is Huntress placing Panta four-five, four-six on battle stations, I repeat battle stations, time one-two-four-one. Authenticate hotel romeo, all parties acknowledge with initials.

  Jeremy Powell

  Party, Two, September 11

  New 9/11 Tapes: Audio And Full Transcripts, news.sky.com. September 8, 2011.

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• In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes and Newton do not occur yet their cosmic quest destroyed the medieval vision of an immutable social order in a walled-in universe and transformed the European landscape, society, culture, habits and general outlook, as thoroughly as if a new species had arisen on this planet.

  Arthur Koestler

  Order, Names, Historical

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• Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn't change her looks. She'd never be six feet tall. She'd never look like a supermodel.

  Francine Pascal

  Self Esteem, Feet, Feelings

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• Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve.

  Lorrie Fair

  Soccer, Player, Practice

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• I didn't have to wait six years to get my show on the air, worry that someone else had a similar idea, or wait around for notes that took my voice out of the show.

  Lena Dunham

  Air, Years, Ideas

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• Polish the heart, free the six senses and let them function without obstruction, and your entire body will glow.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Life, Heart, Body

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.60, Shambhala Publications

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• The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice, there are two political parties, there are a handful insurance companies, there are six or seven information centers.. but if you want a bagel there are 23 flavors. Because you have the illusion of choice!

  George Carlin

  Country, Philosophy, Party

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• I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Teacher, Years, Age

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• I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

  Edie Falco

  Years, Support, Acting

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• The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

  James Mattis

  Enemy, Important, Ears

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• People don't think of their office as a workplace anymore. They think of it as a stationary store with Danish. You want to get your pastry, your envelopes, your supplies, your toilet paper, six cups of coffee, and you go home.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Work, Coffee

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• Doing things the way you see it, going by your own heart and soul, that is pure artistic integrity. Whether the hair is six or sixty inches long, the eyes have make-up or not, the riffs are in 'E' or 'F' sharp, the amps are Marshall or not, all those things don't matter if you are doing it for the right reason, which to me means doing it for yourself!!

  Lars Ulrich

  Integrity, Heart, Mean

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• We had to sit in this courtroom in Reno for six weeks. It was like Disneyworld. We had no idea what a subliminal message was - it was just a combination of some weird guitar sounds, and the way I exhaled between lyrics. I had to sing 'Better by You, Better Than Me' in court, a cappella. I think that was when the judge thought, 'What am I doing here? No band goes out of its way to kill its fans'.

  Rob Halford

  Thinking, Guitar, Ideas

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• I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments.

  Retief Goosen

  Winning, Firsts, Remember

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• Six Seconds is a great read. Echoing Ludlum and Forsythe, author Mofina has penned a big, solid international thriller that grabs your gut -- and your heart -- in the opening scenes and never lets go.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Letting Go, Heart, Scene

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• I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.

  Lee Child

  Writing, Office, Six Months

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• Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mean, Small Numbers, People

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• Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic

  Wyclef Jean

  Rap, Feel Good, Six Months

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• About six years ago my family was affected by multiple sclerosis.

  Frank Iero

  Years, My Family, Multiple Sclerosis

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• I've got a folder full of rejection slips that I keep. Know why? Because those same editors are now calling my agent hoping I'll write a book or novella for them. Things change. A rejection slip today might mean a frantic call to your agent in six months.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Book, Writing, Mean

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• At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person - all my old friends are gone... & my heart fails when I think by how few ties I hold to the world.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Heart, Thinking, Ties

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Paula R. Feldman, Diana Scott-Kilvert (1987). “The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844: 1822-1844”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter s!

  Stanislaw Lem

  Faces, Heroism, Noble

  STANISLAW LEM (1974). “THE CYBERIAD”

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