"Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line."
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"Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet."
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"I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know."
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"I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love- and I would take a long deep breath and force these words out of my strangulated throat: "Thank you."
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"There is this great idea about the logic of a politician, along the lines of: "Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it."
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"Songwriting is like fishing in a stream; you put in your line and hope to catch something. And I don't think anyone downstream from Bob Dylan ever caught anything."
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"I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him."
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"Yon grey lines That fret the clouds are messengers of day."
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"The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man."
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"Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France."
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"Mr. Tulip lived his life on that thin line most people occupy just before they haul off and hit someone repeatedly with a wrench."
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"[The Internet] is a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."
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"I don't know if I've got swept up. It's so shocking when you hear that Calvin Klein wants you for their new campaign. You're like "who me?". I guess you have to decide where you draw the line between you saying, this is fun, pretty and fabulous, and being over-exposed."
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"Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it."
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"The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect."
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"The dotted line my father's ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won't wash away."
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"Concentrate on a single feature - as, build all toward one eye - make all lines lead toward that eye."
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"No emotions are bad. But if they stay for long, then it is bad. Emotions should be like a line drawn on the surface of water."
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"Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant."
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"It wouild be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.' John Horgan."
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