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Thomas Lennon Actor, Writer, Producer
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"Being a movie star is stressful as hell. You've got to do crunches all day long. You've got to get up and learn lines."

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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
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"In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke my friends. The soul is the punch line."

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Tracy Morgan Comedian, Actor
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"I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work."

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Tracy Morgan Comedian, Actor
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"I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work, but I know that Barack Obama is trying his best, and that at some point down the road, he's going to get it right."

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Richard Bach Author
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"I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone."

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Stan Lee Comic Book Writer, Editor
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"I love recording lines. It's like being an actor without having to really act."

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Stephen Hawking Theoretical Physicist
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"I don't believe that the ultimate theory will come by steady work along existing lines. We need something new. We can't predict what that will be or when we will find it because if we knew that, we would have found it already!"

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Stephen Harper Politician
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"I know economists will say well, we could run a small deficit but the problem is that once you cross that line as we see in the United States, nothing stops deficits from getting larger and larger and spiralling out of control."

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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
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"Heydrich, Eichmann, and company therefore invoke the usual trick of argument for breaking a true continuum that lacks a compelling point for separation: choose an arbitrary dividing line and then treat it as a self-evident law of nature."

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Stephen King Author
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"I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it)."

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Steve Martin Comedian, Actor, Writer
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"I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could get on stage. I guess you could get up no matter how bad you were and you didn't have to audition. You just got up. Everything else required an audition and if you auditioned for a TV show, you would stand in line with a hundred other people. But at the clubs, it was okay just to get up, so that's why I started in stand-up."

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Steve Martin Comedian, Actor, Writer
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"Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don't quite line up."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"We are what our considered opinion abide through us; so put up with assiduousness about what you storage. Natter are sub-. Line live; they travel far."

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