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• When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing.

  Penn Jillette

  Giving Money, Buying Something, Bills

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

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• What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

  Jackie Kennedy

  Children, Women, Memorable

  "The Last Word". Book by Carolyn Warner, 1992.

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• Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

  Jean Kerr

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Jean Kerr (1962). “The Snake Has all the Lines”

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• I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.

  Anne Lamott

  Beach, Doors, Car

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.6, Penguin

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• My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.

  Queen Latifah

  Horse, House, Peaceful

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• One great benefit of not being on TV every week is that people will be a lot less interested in what I have in my supermarket basket. I could even un-tint my car windows - or at least opt for a lighter shade.

  Hugh Laurie

  People, Car, Benefits

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• From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling into the rough. You do that and you're gonna have problems.

  Jerry Lewis

  Fall, Taken, Two

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• When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Effort, Done, Steps

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 155, 1799.

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• A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

  Horace Mann

  Children, Book, Mean

  "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

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• Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• A dog is a vehicle, you know, a dog is a window to Mother Nature and that's the closest species we have.

  Cesar Millan

  Mother, Dog, Vehicle

  "Cesar Millan: Changing The World One Dog Owner At A Time". Interview with Jeff Witzeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2010.

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• The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all.

  Taylor Momsen

  Mean, Cities, People

  "Interview: Taylor Momsen- Who’s that Girl?". Interview With Daniel H., www.bloginity.com.

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• There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Doors, Doe, Fortune

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• Everything you've ever read of mine is first-draft. This is one of the peculiarities of the comics field. By the time you're working on chapter three of your masterwork, chapter one is already in print. You can't go back and suddenly decide to make this character a woman, or have this one fall out of a window.

  Alan Moore

  Fall, Character, Three

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 24, 2001.

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• I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.

  Alanis Morissette

  Children, Opportunity, Years

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• Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.

  Jim Morrison

  Love, Sex, Soul

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• It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.

  Elon Musk

  Years, Long, Important

  "Uberpreneurs: How to Create Innovative Global Businesses and Transform Human Societies". Book by Peter Andrews and Fiona Wood, December 8, 2013.

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• Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

  George Jean Nathan

  Art, Darkness, Criticism

  George Jean Nathan (1972). “The Critic and the Drama”, p.4, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.

  Willie Nelson

  Couple, Fun, Book

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• I grew up among farmers in Illinois and so you always have to have the tools you might need in the eventuality of a flat tire or a broken window.

  Nick Offerman

  Illinois, Broken, Might

  Interview with Mary Kaye Schilling, www.gq.com. July 3, 2012.

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• When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.

  Susan Orlean

  Sunday, People, Hobbies

  "On the Wing" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 8, 2011.

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• They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window.

  Suze Orman

  Half, Married, Divorced

  "Baby boomers or bums?" by Helyn Trickey, www.cnn.com. February 20, 2006.

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• Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.

  Michael Palin

  Curiosity, World, Insatiable

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• I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.

  Pat Paulsen

  Song, Brother, Moving

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• Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.

  Shimon Peres

  Ocean, Mean, Opportunity

  "We in Israel welcome the Arab spring" by Shimon Pere, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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