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“Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?”
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“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.”
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“I wanted to direct when I was very young. I had no idea of cinema, of who's doing what. That was my first instinct: "Okay, I want to be the boss."”
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“A man’s best friend is a good wife.”
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“Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.”
Source : "Rita Dove On New Anthology, Advice For Young Poets". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 2, 2012. 
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“I do think that we're pretty future-obsessed right now, and I think that capitalism works best when we have a very short memory of the past, when we can just go forward seamlessly into a future of ever-new products and ever-new experiences - even though they're exactly the same, just on a watch instead of on a phone or whatever.”
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“My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.”
Source : Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.147, Routledge
