I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

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I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.

Dana Spiotta

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teacher

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We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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business

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The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Jim Hightower

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courage

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At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.

George McGovern

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least , possibility , too

Proverbs

A dull ass near home trots without the stick.

Portuguese Proverb

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dull , near , home , without

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I do prime time network shows like 'Blue Bloods.' I've done 'Fringe,' I've done 'The Good Wife,' done a lot of 'The Mentalist.'

John Polson

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prime , time , network

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I have been unspeakably victimized once already, and I refuse to let that happen again to myself or my kids.

Kimberly Corban

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been , victimized , once , refuse , happen

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I can't imagine ever not having a team, being a part of a team trying to win a game.

Philip Rivers

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imagine , ever , having

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I'll play where the gaffer decides in the middle, on the right, or on the left.

James Rodriguez

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play , where

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There are guitars everywhere around all of our houses. Pianos. Guitars. It's kind of just in our blood. It's in our nature.

Kevin Jonas

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guitars , everywhere , around

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Leaving the E.U. Is an opportunity for our country.

Esther McVey

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leaving , opportunity , our

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In 2011, a lot of people didn't even know I did 'Tupac Back.'

Mike Will Made It

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lot , people , even

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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

Bear Grylls

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extremes , deserts , inherently

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That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.

Richard Schickel

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men

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The way that we are going to solve social problems is by working with multiple different types of investing.

Laurene Powell Jobs

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way , going , solve

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But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.

Algernon Blackwood

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wicked , passions , hearts

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I like to go see films that give me courage and hope.

Isabelle Adjani

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like , go , see

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My father was a man's man and was always respected for being a straight shooter. My dad always had an amazing sense of calm about him.

Bret Hart

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father , man , always

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Past, present, future: where are you?

Manuel Vila

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where

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Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.

Michael Haneke

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society

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To give birth is the most beautiful thing in the world.

Simona Halep

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give , birth , most

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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

Andre Maurois

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difficult , part , argument

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Twenty years ago, tumor in the nodes was the big determinant of treatment, that is no longer true today.

Monica Morrow

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twenty , years , tumor , big , longer

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During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

David Sylvian

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lifetime , japan , became

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My only sketch, profile, of heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in june-and in it are my friends-every one of them.

Emily Dickinson

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only , heaven , large , blue , larger

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When you are shy, you live a lot in your own head.

Joelle Carter

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live , lot , your

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You have to be driven by something greater than you, where you don't surrender, and you commit to something like that.

Kurt Sutter

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driven , something , greater

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Anyone who's been through divorce will know that every day is really hard.

Kate Winslet

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anyone , been , through

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When I was 12, I was going through an awkward time. Writing music helped me find my voice and express the things I was feeling.

Kelsea Ballerini

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going , through , awkward

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It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution because it's like everybody is a factory worker, eating their terrible food and going back to the room where you're silent and listening to an idiot. That's an epitomizing idea, getting called 'Nothing' for your whole high school experience.

Ezra Miller

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food

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

– Sammy Davis, Jr. –

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