Quotern

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So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.

-- Bruce Boxleitner

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We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

-- Martin L. Gross

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In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

-- John Turturro

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Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?

-- Ellen Willis

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I'm a military man, I did what I did only because my country had to be saved from tribalism and feudalism. If I failed, it was only because I was betrayed. The so-called genocide was nothing more than just a war in defence of the revolution and a system from which all have benefited.

-- Mengistu Haile Mariam

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I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I'd like to do a big picture with an unknown director.

-- Joan Severance

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There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.

-- Muammar al-Gaddafi

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Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock.

-- Alice Walker

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Another important consequence in the arrival of digital technology and its facilitation of feedback is that we can look at large systems and recognize them once more not only as part of ourselves, but also as components that can change... Now, though, we live in a world where text is fluid, where is responds to our instructions. Writing something down records it, but does not make it true or permanent. So why should we put up with a system we don't like simply because it's been written somewhere?

-- Nick Harkaway

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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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