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• I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it.

  Jo Brand

  Brother, Kids, Play

  "Portrait of the artist: Jo Brand, comedian". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2010.

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• We are each other's magnitude and bond.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Wedding Toast, Bridal Shower, Wedding Speech

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.129, Library of America

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• I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them.

  James Brown

  Dollars, Million Dollars, Millions

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• Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

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• I remember at 16 years old, growing up in Queens, we were punks, but hey, when we went to the theater, we wore a shirt and tie! Similarly, I believe that to keep movie theaters in existence, they're gonna have to make 'em an event, have a couch, a table and drinks or something. Otherwise, there's no reason to get out of your bed!

  James Caan

  Queens, Growing Up, Believe

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• Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

  Truman Capote

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Truman Capote (1954). “The Grass Harp”, p.43, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Fall, Discovery, Order

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• That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Matter, Fixing, Hats

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• My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph.D.! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits.

  Amy Chua

  Mom, Mother, Teaching

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• I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.

  Harlan Coben

  Friendship, My Best Friend, Company

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• Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Friendship, Adversity, Sacred

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  I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.

  Sean Connery

  Hatred, Damn, Hated

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems!

  Sean Connery

  Differences, Able, Problem

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

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• Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

  Rita Coolidge

  Funny, Humor, Opportunity

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• It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'

  Daniel Craig

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Challenges

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• For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

  Countee Cullen

  Wings, Earth, Helping

  Countee Cullen, Gerald Lyn Early (1991). “My soul's high song: the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance”, Doubleday Books

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• I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

  Roald Dahl

  Memories, School, Trying

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.28, Penguin

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• I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Yellow, Teeth

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• Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.

  Kirk Douglas

  Sometimes

  "Kirk Douglas: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

  Minnie Driver

  Film, Tradition, Anachronism

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• I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Nuts, Play, Thrill

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• I love the pictures of Old Hollywood, seeing the directors dressed in suits and ties. Even the grips would be wearing ties. But the biggest thing is when I was a kid, I couldn't wait to be an adult, and I think what happens with most guys is that no one wants to be an adult anymore. So they're dressing like kids.

  Paul Feig

  Kids, Thinking, Guy

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• Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Book, Independent, Stabbing

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• The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

  Enrico Fermi

  Numbers, Machines, Fundamentals

  Enrico Fermi, James W. Cronin (2004). “Fermi Remembered”, p.75, University of Chicago Press

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• Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.

  Thomas Friedman

  Running, Korea, Taiwan

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