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Michael Buckley Author, Educator
Brain

"..when the first rubber ball smacked her in the head and made her brains rattle in her skull, she knew that something about this dodgeball game was different"

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Michael Buckley Author, Educator
Brain

"Don't duh me!" Puck snapped. "Trying to figure out what you're thinking from one day to the next takes more brains than I have." Well, maybe you should stop. I'd hate to burn out that little peanut in your head."

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Brain

"And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any."

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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer
Brain

"If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be."

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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer
Brain

"I don't know that person anymore, that guy in '86, '87. I don't know that guy no more. I don't have no affinity for that guy no more. I have no affinity for the guy who said, 'I am the greatest fighter God produced.' I have no affinity for the guy who said he would try to push his [opponent's] nose bone up into his brain. I just don't know that guy. I don't know who he is. I don't know where he came from. I don't have no kind of connection with him no more."

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Michelangelo Antonioni Film Director, Screenwriter
Brain

"I've never had a method of working. I change according to circumstances; I don't employ any particular technique or style. I make films instinctively, more with my belly than with my brain."

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Megan Lee Singer-songwriter
Brain

"I worked on Crash, the TV series, some Disney shows like Get Connected, Brain Surge & iCarly on Nickelodeon, but Make It Pop is my very first lead role in a series."

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Kobe Bryant Professional Basketball Player
Brain

"My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' . . . I think that's almost worse than death."

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Brain

"The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down."

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Lydia Davis Author
Brain

"Part of my mind is working on how to end the thing while I'm going on. You need at least two brains to write."

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