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Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin Actor, Filmmaker, Composer

"I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large."

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Bess Truman First Lady of the United States
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"A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight."

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Eminem Rapper, songwriter, record producer
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"When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That's how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things."

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John Wayne Actor, Director
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"There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear."

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T. E. Lawrence Writer, Archaeologist, Military Officer
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"A thick headcloth forms a good protection against the sun, and if you wear a hat your best Arab friends will be ashamed of you in public."

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Saul Bellow Novelist
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"Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels."

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Stephen King Author
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"This is a dreadful thing to say, but I have wondered in my darker hours that, if everything were legal, wouldn't it be kind of a Darwinian solution to a lot of problems? Who are the bikies that you see who are cruisin' around with no helmet or with a hat turned around like that yoyo in Cheap Trick? They're dummies, and if they splatter their brains all over the sidewalk, they're not going to be collecting food stamps."

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"Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!"

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Marlon Wayans Actor, Comedian, Producer
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"Nobody loves me. No, everybody wanted me to do this one by myself, and I wanted to do it by myself. So, this is sorta like my first solo album. I didn't pull any tricks out of my hat, and just went with the natural flow of the film."

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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
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"Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness."

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