"If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something."
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"I don't have to convince everybody in the room. I just need a critical mass of the people in the room."
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"I would never find myself or unlikely to find myself in a room where I have a skeptic who brought me in. But I very often am in a situation somebody who's there who didn't invite me was a skeptic. That happens all the time."
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"I think that iTunes is opened up a whole new world to me, and I never thought it would. If you've got a day off in a hotel room, you can buy three albums and then they're there. It's kind of strange to have a relationship with that."
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"Why are you making a joke out of this?" she asks. "Because it's stupid, Nik. There's not even room in my day to think about someone else."
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"I like to be working and moving - the worst thing you can do to me is stick me in a room all day while you're lighting a shot. That just kills me."
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"A person could see a lot without ever leaving his own living room. Especially if he had the right tools."
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"It was crushingly disappointing as a fan of The Simpsons to discover that it's just you in a room speaking into a microphone. I thought I was going to become friends with Homer Simpson, but unfortunately none of them are real."
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"There came one and knocked at the door of the Beloved. And a voice answered and said, 'Who is there?' The lover replied, 'It is I.' 'Go hence,' returned the voice; 'there is no room within for thee and me.' Then came the lover a second time and knocked and again the voice demanded, 'Who is there?' He answered, 'It is thou.' 'Enter,' said the voice, 'for I am within."
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"The one man in the room who was as big as his poems, huge, with hulk and dynamic chunks of words."
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"There's not much room for deviation, yet if you manage to crack it, there then you can express things that actually do sound unique and genuinely original."
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"I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres."
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"When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter."
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"The locker room talk is always that about who can beat who."
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"It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family."
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"I sat up in bed. My T-shirt was soaking wet. My pillow was wet. My hair was wet. And my room was sticky and humid."
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"Professor Trelawney: "Everything went pitch-black and the next thing I knew I was being hurled headfirst out of the room!" Harry Potter: "And you didn’t see that coming?" Professor Trelawney: "No, as I say it was pitch — ” [Glares at Harry angrily]"
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"He has never wanted to occupy the throne himself; he prefers the back seat - more room to spread out, you see."
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"in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes"
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"How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires."
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