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Ted Leo Musician
Angry

“Some people never need to let up at all.”

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Ted Nelson Computer Scientist
Spiritual

“I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.”

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Ted Williams Baseball Player
Hopeful

“I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.”

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Teddy Thompson Musician
Creative

“Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a box.”

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Teddy Thompson Musician
Funny

“I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track following me around so people know I'm trying to be funny.”

Teddy Thompson Musician
Angry

“There's this bubblegum pop thing which is prevalent now that we haven't had before. People's ears are slightly de-tuned; they've been exposed to this weird synthetic, implausibly upbeat, Mickey Mouse stuff which I think is just weird; it's not really a human sound.”

Teddy Thompson Musician
Hopeful

“For a long time I was trying to be poppier and younger. I didn't want to be on public radio or do any of that stuff for older people. Then I realized that that is exactly what I listen to.”

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Teddy Thompson Musician
Love

“I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something.”

Teddy Wayne Musician
Funny

“People talk about Obama in the same way 12-year-olds talk about Bieber, and speculate about what he and Michelle are like behind closed doors the same way those 12-year-olds wonder what Justin and Selena are like.”

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Samuel Adams Politician
Courageous

“It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no control ... The Militia is composed of free Citizens. There is therefore no danger of their making use of their Power to the destruction of their own Rights, or suffering others to invade them.”

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Samuel Adams Politician
Happy

“The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.”

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Samuel Adams Politician
Sad

“I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.”

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Samuel Butler Novelist, Poet, Essayist
Grateful

“Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.”

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Samuel Butler Novelist, Poet, Essayist
Philosophical

“If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.”

Samuel Fuller Film Director
Wise

“Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms.”

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Ralph Martin Author
Hopeful

“Whenever people open their hearts to God in some way, the Lord wants to do something good. Even if it just got scheduled randomly for that day, I'm sure [Pope Francis] sees significance in that.”

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Ralph Martin Author
Philosophical

“What does he [Pope Francis] mean, "Who am I to judge?" People think he's fantastic, but they also wonder how some of these pieces fit.”

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