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Lil Wayne Rapper, Musician
Bullshit

"Outwork the bullshit. That means nothing can rattle you when your conditions are set. And the way you set those conditions is by working damn hard."

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Jay-Z Rapper, Businessman
Bullshit

"All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul."

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Clement Freud Chef, Writer
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"Wine buffs write and talk as though the food and wine will be in your mouth at the same time, that one is there to be poured over the other. This is bullshit. Gustatory enjoyment comes from food and wine and cigars of your liking. So far no one has said that a Monte Cristo is the only cigar to smoke after Armagnac, Romeo and Juliet after Calvados ... but the time may yet come."

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Allen Ginsberg Poet, Activist
Bullshit

"Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!"

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Russell Brand Comedian, Actor
Bullshit

"The only systems we can afford to employ are those that rationally serve the planet first, then all humanity. Not out of some woolly, bullshit tree-hugging piffle but because we live on it, currently without alternatives."

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Olivia Wilde Actress, Producer, Director
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"I was just learning to be by myself. He seemed to really see me, see through the bullshit...He was so handsome, and he could dance. I thought, 'He won't be interested in me; I'm not a contender. He was so cool, so funny - I was such a fan of his and had always fancied his speed and his intelligence. I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough or his type.'"

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A.S. King Author
Bullshit

"But it feels good to love a thing and not expect anything back. It feels good to not get an argument or any pushiness or any rumors or any bullshit. It's love without strings. It's ideal."

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Van Morrison Singer-Songwriter
Bullshit

"I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?"

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Stephen King Author
Bullshit

"Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why it works when it’s good, not why it doesn’t when it’s bad."

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Neil Young Musician, Singer-Songwriter
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"And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold."

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Mariel Hemingway Actress, Author
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"People can sense you lying on the camera, they can smell it. They know when you're not telling the truth. Then it does become reality-show bullshit."

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Bill Hicks Comedian, Writer
Bullshit

"[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'"

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