"If you want to learn something, just steal it."
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"Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself."
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"I don't steal things. I'm rich."
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"Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service."
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"We could steal time, just for one day We can be Heroes, for ever and ever What d'you say?"
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"Good poets borrow, great poets steal"
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"A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman."
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"It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made."
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"We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it."
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"If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing."
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"I always steal a pair of socks on every photo shoot I do. It's my thing."
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"When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson."
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"An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done."
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"Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing."
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"In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing."
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"If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free."
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"Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears."
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"A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief."
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"You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey."
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"Talent imitates, genius steals."
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