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"There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive."
"Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may."
"Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line."
"....there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a way that an "end" can be projected by the reader somewhere beyond the right frame. If no such convergence or projection occured to you, then the book's failed for you."
"In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor."
"It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line."
"It's not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!"
"You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it."
"I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more."
"There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life."
"I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then."
"I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace."
"Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications."
"I like Modernism. I grew up around these sort of eclectic, heavily carved, baroque, rococo, highly ornamented styles that were in my life from the time that I was a child until now in my business life. So I like clean, straight, minimalist lines."
"There's a very fine line between giving someone the Heimlich maneuver and dry-humping a stranger."
"There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying."
"Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true."
"I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer."
"I feel more productive, mostly because I feel like my ass is on the line. Before I had kids, I would sit around, drink, I don't even know what I did with myself."
"The women who line up at a comic's dressing-room door are not what you'd call your class groupies."
