"We know there is no progress in a straight line."
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"I didn't cross the line, you drew it in after I traversed it."
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"If you actually read the Bible, you can see there's a whole lot more information in there than the way we interpret the Bible. Because there are single lines in the Bible where if you just take them at face-value, they don't make any sense whatsoever in the world we see, we know, and we understand."
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"I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line."
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"I read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I'll check out 'Archie' when I'm in the grocery line, but that's about it."
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"I've been so lucky that there's been such an intense and positive response to the line. It's one of the craziest things."
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"Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line."
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"The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line."
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"Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are."
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"During the writer's strike I was walking a line and ran into Jack Black and he said,'We're doing Airborne 2!', and I asked, 'Are you kidding?', and he said, 'Yeah.' I like 'Airborne,' its very pure."
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"Nobody's more serious about health and fitness than me and staying fit is my top priority, That's why I've teamed up with Medifast to bring my fans a line of products that are packed with everything the body needs to get in better shape and improve their health. I use the products every day as part of my training."
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"Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy."
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"Professor Flitwick had dried himself off and set Seamus lines ("I am a wizard not a baboon brandishing a stick")"
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"The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants ."
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"I have a million story-lines for 'Revenge' and they never listen to me."
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"I think that's a really cool thing about my line. There are so many sets, but you can literally mix and match everything with everything."
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"A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: "He was a man; sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man." I love that line."
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"It's sort of a fine line where you're dying to express it and then hoping no one really gets it that closely. But I'm pretty much over that. I'd really just like to be understood."
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"I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines."
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"I'm on the front line and I am a rapper."
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