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Steven Wright Comedian
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"I've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on 'The Tonight Show.' There's truly nothing like it; it's intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual."

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Stuart Hill Artist
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"Could you please explain to me exactly what the staff is that you carry?" Cronus proudly held the symbol of his power and authority aloft. "It is the scepter that denotes my control of the Physical Realms. All who defy me should look on it and tremble." "Oh, I see! Do you know, I thought it was a giant toothpick, or perhaps something you shoved into other parts of you anatomy. I never realized it represented your supposed right to rule," said Her Vampiric Majesty lightly."

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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
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"If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all."

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Rory Carroll Journalist
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"Chávez inadvertently made the US drug war tactics look good. Quite a feat, given the disaster which is the drug war. After expelling the DEA (not necessarily a bad thing, given its record in Colombia and elsewhere), he failed to devise a credible strategy for Venezuela."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy."

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Suzanne Shaw Television Personality, Actress
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"I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"Have charity towards all beings. Pity those who are in distress. Love all creatures. Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the faults of others."

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Sylvester Stallone Actor, Filmmaker
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"I have all kinds of chest injuries; I tore my vein during 'Rocky II' and had 60 stitches. If you've seen 'Rocky Balboa,' you'll know how bad they look."

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Sylvester Stallone Actor, Filmmaker
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"And if I look at my icebox, there's no way I'm sitting there looking like Gandhi. I mean, I don't have crickets in there and little green rice. No, I mean it's a pretty liberal icebox. It's all in there."

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Rumer Willis Actress
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"Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You're handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path and see where it takes you."

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Russell Baker Writer
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"Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated "the lesson of history."

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