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• For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

  Wernher von Braun

  Mother, Boys, Technology

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• I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

  Anne Bronte

  Girl, Respect, Self

  "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". Book by Anne Bronte, Ch. III : A Controversy; Helen to Gilbert, 1848.

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• The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I’m out there on the basketball court.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Cutting

  "Kobe Bryant On The Black Mamba". Interview with Benjamin Clymer, www.askmen.com. June 11, 2009.

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• Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

  Edmund Burke

  Heart, Tyrants, Mind

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.581, Transaction Publishers

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• I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, America, People

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 2 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!

  Sophia Bush

  Men, Hbo, House

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• The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off.

  Sid Caesar

  Kids, Pie, Rude

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

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• I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.

  Nicolas Cage

  Drama, Thinking, People

  "'You've got to be able to break the wall'". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2007.

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• The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scarface' and 'Fantasia.'

  Nicolas Cage

  Orange, Fantasia, Scarface

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• I like movies where you feel like you're going into another world, and no matter how many times you watch it, you're gonna see something new in that world. That level of detail really inspires me.

  Nicolas Cage

  Inspire, World, Levels

  "Not much rattling Nicolas Cage these days". Interview with Andrea Mineo, edition.cnn.com. July 24, 2009.

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• I've really had good luck working with younger actors. Every younger actor that I have worked with has always been really on top of their game and fascinating to watch.

  Nicolas Cage

  Good Luck, Games, Actors

  "Nicolas Cage GHOST RIDER SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE On-Set Interview". Group interview, collider.com. January 5, 2012.

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• I did this Super-8 film at art school called Tissues, this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

  Jane Campion

  Art, Children, Father

  "New Again: Jane Campion". Interview with Katherine Dieckmann, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2012.

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• I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.

  Nick Cannon

  Artist, Genius, Records

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• We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.

  Nick Cannon

  School, Shoes, Two

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• The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.

  Eric Cantona

  Football, Real, Games

  "The awkward squad" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2009.

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• They love 3-D. It's fun to watch a movie in 3-D with your children, or with a group of children, because, from time to time, you see little hands reaching up to grab things that they think are right there. It's remarkable and it does, obviously, add another dimension, literally, to the movie.

  Steve Carell

  Fun, Children, Kids

  "Steve Carell Interview DESPICABLE ME". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2010.

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• When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

  Drew Carey

  Soccer, Travel, Games

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• Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

  Mariah Carey

  Funny, Money, Stupid

  "The X Factor - Mariah Carey night - LIVE!!!" by Heidi Stephens, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2008.

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• Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Wise, Wisdom, Perseverance

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• Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Eggs, Vaccines, Business Success

  "James Watt".

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• If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.

  Adam Carolla

  Butterfly, Beer, Ideas

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• I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Looks, Strange, Feels

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• I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Beautiful, Art, Real

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• I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.

  Dana Carvey

  Night, Years, Two

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• I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the Johnny Cash Show on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock'n'roll. I watched him and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing, a beautiful, evil thing.

  Nick Cave

  Beautiful, Rocks, Years

  "I saw music could be a beautiful, evil thing, while my parents shifted uncomfortably" by Nick Cave, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2003.

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