Seth Rollins
Professional Wrestler
"I could take over as host of The Daily Show for Jon Stewart and make that thing actually watchable."
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Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast"
Bernard Beckett
Author
"The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them."
Bernard Beckett
Author
"Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy."
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"The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody."
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"What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force."
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"I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all."
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"Begin to act from your dominion. Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you no longer entertain any images of fear."
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"One more drink and I'd have been under the host."
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"You can either be a Host to God, or a Hostage to your ego!"
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"The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host."
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"We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators."
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"A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task."
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"I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look."
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"It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great."
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"Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host."
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"Ajax the great Himself a host."
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"[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?"
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"The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?"
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"Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim."
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"Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host."
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"There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven."
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"I mean, most actresses can't host and most hostesses can't act, and that's the general rule in the industry."
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"There's a host of difficult issues here, and that's why when you mentioned at the top of the show that the committees were looking at this, that's where I think we should be going."
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