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• I can't get used to the ease with which one covers the world today. It's no longer an effort--Pole--equator--oceans--continents--it's just a question of which way you point the nose of your plane. The pure joy of flight as an art has given way to the pure efficiency of flight as a science.... Science is insulating man from life -- separating his mind from his senses. The worst of it is that it soon anaesthetizes his senses so that he doesn't know what he's missing.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Art, Ocean, Men

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• That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state to be their adversary. State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them.

  Hugo Black

  Religious, Groups, Doe

  Writing for the court in Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1, 1947.

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• It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his head on a platter. We are being handed our heads with tweezers now.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Lines, Said

  "Timequake". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 9, p. 38), September 22, 1997.

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• In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [...] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to play gangster roles with extraordinary vividness, visited Chicago, local hoodlums would telephone him at his hotel to pay their professional respects.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Real, Drama, Years

  "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p.27-28), 1991.

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• Finally, a Jeet Kune Do man who says Jeet Kune Do is exclusively Jeet Kune Do is simply not with it. He is still hung up on his self-closing resistance, in this case anchored down to reactionary pattern, and naturally is still bound by another modified pattern and can move within its limits. He has not digested the simple fact that truth exists outside all molds; pattern and awareness is never exclusive. Again let me remind you Jeet Kune Do is just a name used, a boat to get one across, and once across it is to be discarded and not to be carried on one's back.

  Bruce Lee

  Moving, Simple, Men

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• Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.

  Susan Orlean

  Car, Soul, Promise

  "Wheels" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2010.

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• Having one of your like dumb sort of stream of consciousness tweets used against you on a right wing website is the ultimate compliment.

  Julie Klausner

  Wings, Dumb, Consciousness

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• Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?

  Bill Vaughan

  Real, House, Doe

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• In order to get around the $500 cap, it's common knowledge that either potential candidates or public officials simply create these organizations, accumulate large sums of money which are then used in support of their campaign or to contribute to their campaign. They were trying to close that loophole.

  Bill Vaughan

  Order, Organization, Support

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• I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Icy, Said

  Gore Vidal (2002). “The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000”, p.143, Vintage

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• Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of things.

  Saul Bellow

  Sex, Practice, People

  1987 More Die of Heartbreak.

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• No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved. Revolution is the negation of the existing, a violent protest against man's inhumanity to man with all the thousand and one slaveries it involves. It is the destroyer of dominant values upon which a complex system of injustice, oppression, and wrong has been built up by ignorance and brutality. It is the herald of NEW VALUES, ushering in a transformation of the basic relations of man to man, and of man to society.

  Emma Goldman

  Ignorance, Mean, Men

  "My Disillusionment in Russia". Book by Emma Goldman, 1925.

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• Hemingway always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that in fifty years nobody would understand. He may have been right; it's getting to be true.

  John Dos Passos

  Mistake, Years, Fifty

  Discussion session with students at Union College on October 16, 1968. "John Dos Passos: The Major Nonfictional Prose". Book edited by Donald Pizer, 1988.

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• I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Love, Thinking, Two

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• A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition, and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Expression, Ideas, Lazy

  "Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co., 318 U.S. 54". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. February 1, 1943.

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• I want people to remember me that I was faithful, faithful to the gospel, faithful to the call that God gave me. And when I get to heaven, I'm going to ask him why he called me, because I was much used to milking cows and working on the farm than I was preaching.

  Billy Graham

  People, Heaven, Faithful

  "Exclusive! Rev. Billy Graham Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. June 27, 2005.

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• Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life.

  Merrill Markoe

  Reality, Thinking, Elements

  Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• I am starting to like LA, but the concept of a place you have to get used to so much seems a little weird to me. I have been to many foreign cities where I didn't have do acclimatize as much as I did to LA

  Sloane Crosley

  Cities, Littles, Starting

  "Sloane Crosley Adjusts To The Writerly Life". Interview with Shane Ferro, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2011.

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• I used to put that I studied with Stella Adler on my resume. I never met Stella Adler. But if you told a casting director you studied with Stella Adler all the sudden they'd let you in the door.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Doors, Directors, Casting

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I used to race at the YMCA in Crystal Lake, Illinois, they used to have a dirt track there, and there was also a track near Rockford, Illinois, that I would go to.

  Matt Skiba

  Lakes, Illinois, Race

  "Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and Blink-182 on staying young through BMX". Interview with David Anthony, music.avclub.com. May 27, 2015.

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• I pissed off Greeks, particularly in my family, for years to come, because I popularized the word "malaka," which hitherto had not been known outside of the community. It's basically "jack off," you know? Masturbator. So I remember my mother was not pleased at the time. She was, like, "Oh, John, couldn't you have used a better word?" There's no better word, Mom!

  John Kapelos

  Mom, Mother, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The naturally colored products aren't as bright as the synthetically colored products, they're not as attractive to consumers. But, you know, it's the kind of thing that consumers simply would get used to very quickly.

  Michael F. Jacobson

  Kind, Attractive, Consumers

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds of people. They tore me down because I was too tall. They said "How tall are you?" "6'5"." "Next."

  Dolph Lundgren

  Engineering, People, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• No one runs fast without an extreme amount of training. Like today, you see kids walking around dribbling a basketball. I had a bag with track shoes in it, and I used to go to the track every day.

  Edwin Moses

  Basketball, Running, Kids

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• I knew a lot of my musicians used to take coke. I never saw them. They would hide it from me, so I wasn't really aware of it. Creatively, I don't think it was that great.

  Giorgio Moroder

  Thinking, Musician, Coke

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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