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On scores of sites, users can upload illegal files of my books. As per 1998's toothless Digital Millennium Copyright Act, I bear the burden of discovering and reporting each theft. Peter Lerangis
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On 'Scrubs,' I played a very unusual character who pretty much was defined by saying and doing strange things, so it was easy to improvise around that. Neil Flynn
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On stage you need to emphasize every emotion. But on screen you need to tone everything down and make it believable. Tom Holland
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On 'Sufferer,' I'm talking about the younger generation that has no other option for success than to find a gun somewhere. I try to appeal to them: 'I know you a sufferer, but it doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't expect any better.' It's a lot different than from what I usually say, like, 'Get busy, shake that thing. Sean Paul
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On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world. Wim Wenders
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On the one hand, Porto Monenegro is shape-shifting - it replaced a naval shipyard with a new marina - but it's also mind-shifting, opening up an array of other small business opportunities. And this shape-shifting and mind-shifting, it is exactly what we're trying to do in Montenegro. Igor Luksic
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On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children are born and the investment in children is the greatest investment a country can make. The benefits of this investment go to everyone. Rocco Buttiglione
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On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets. Patrick J. Kennedy
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story. J. K. Rowling
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On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in. Kathy Acker
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beer journey cases
On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest. Zakk Wylde
whole
On the whole, I'd rather be in Philidelphia. W. C. Fields
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Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes. Kaki King
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Joseph Campbell
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Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group. Robin Morgan
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Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that. Victoria Principal
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Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. James Stephens
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Oswald is an interesting character. Disney lost the rights to him in 1928 to Universal, who was distributing the cartoons and basically handed him over to Walter Lantz. Warren Spector
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Other actors dont get asked about their brothers or sisters, so why do I have to always answer questions about having a twin brother? I suppose its interesting for everybody other than me. Luke Treadaway
blue ships shots
Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they'd put the effects on after. Gil Gerard
Top Positive quotes
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Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free. George Berkeley
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Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories. David Talbot
accepting ought
Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be. John Fowles
attitude over-you records
Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown. Cheryl James
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Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled. Katherine Anne Porter
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art thinking people
People who think about art as an investment are pathetic. Walter Annenberg
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People will dig their heels in and fight for the things they love and against the things they hate. Matt Berninger
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People will send me tweets or texts, 'Yo, I'm at Red Lobster now and they're playing Mayer Hawthorne,' more of that kind of stuff, which is hilarious. Mayer Hawthorne
believe self people
People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe themselves 'naturally' elite; and, in fact, to imagine their possessions and their privileges as natural extensions of their own elite selves. C. Wright Mills
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Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again. Julia Cameron
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Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. Rene Descartes
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Performing arts was something I was always part of. That was may be the only common thread that ran throughout my education, throughout my schooling years. But apart from that, there were no friends or no long term associations. That was the only thing I knew was with me wherever I went. Nimrat Kaur
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Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it. Kim Wilde
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Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy. Haley Reinhart
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Performing tai chi in space - it is comfortable; we got more outer space chi. Liu Yang
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Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries. Hugh Mackay
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Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed. Charles Babbage
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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. Pearl S. Buck
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Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known. Nigel Farage
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Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. Ian Mcewan
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Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion. Cliff Stearns
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Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people. George Will
men bravery selfless
Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless. Katherine Dunn
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Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love. Frank Moore Colby
art stars personality
Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it. Lukas Foss
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Personally, I am a church-going Christian. I love my church, my congregation; it's my favorite place to be. Pauley Perrette
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Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting the development of new technologies. Charles Platt
Philandering impedes, as everyone knows, the ability to concentrate. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
phones capture planets
Phone networks can capture life on our planet. Carlo Ratti
photography believe complacency
Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency. Alison Jackson
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