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• I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.

  Joe Perry

  Soul, Musical, Diaries

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• Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

  Steven Pinker

  World, Language, Human Nature

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• I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Greatest Fear, People, Looks

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• But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

  Sally Ride

  Earth, Looking Down

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• When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.

  Sally Ride

  Cutting, Views, Space

  "Sally Ride, First American Woman In Space, Is Dead". "All Things Considered", nhpr.org. July 23, 2012.

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• Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.

  Henry Rollins

  Spit Up, Bmw, Want

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. August 26, 1998.

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• Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

  Carl Sandburg

  Nice, Math, Blue

  Carl Sandburg, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1995). “Carl Sandburg”, p.17, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Doors, Weather, Movement

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• One time, my mom told us, 'No TV.' It was 3 P.M., and I was sneaking it in. She put her hand on the back of the TV to see if it was warm, and it was. So she pulled the cord out of the wall, opened the second-floor window, and just threw it out the window.

  Akiva Schaffer

  Mom, Wall, Hands

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• My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.

  Robert Schumann

  Ideas, Giving, Way

  Robert Schumann (1907). “The Letters of Robert Schumann”

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• Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken so badly that if I didn't find a way to get all the pain out, I was going to lose my mind. I was crazy! Like, wanting to slash tires and smash car windows. Crazy! I was so hurt that I had to write.

  Jill Scott

  Hurt, Pain, Crazy

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• I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Children, School, Bird

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• My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.

  Ben Stein

  Lying, Airplane, Virginia

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• The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Sad, Loneliness, House

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.96, Cooper Square Press

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• Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.

  Bram Stoker

  Horse, Light, Sky

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.23, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Weather, Together

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• I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there.

  Linus Torvalds

  Interesting, Looks, Economy

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• I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.

  Vince Vaughn

  Mom, Running, Home

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• They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.

  Johnny Vegas

  Las Vegas, Dreamer, Looks

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• So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.

  Gerard Way

  Kids, People, Television

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• The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!

  Jacki Weaver

  Eye, Soul, Important

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

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• The way a musical can make us feel is unlike anything else, in song and particularly in dance. I think people fly through plate-glass windows when they get shot because movies don't have dance scenes any more. This is what we do instead.

  Joss Whedon

  Song, Thinking, Glasses

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• So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Play, Two, House

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1994). “The Little House Book of Memories”, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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• I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Kids, Play, Kitchen

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• I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Play

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