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“The news media reported the $250 million as an unthinkably huge waste of money and proclaimed that something was wrong with NASA. The result was an investigation and a congressional hearing. Not to defend failure, but $250 million is not much more than the cost to produce Kevin Costner's film flop Waterworld.”
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“If you knew the pain I had in my legs...what suffering! I couldn't wait to get to the hotel.”
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“To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.”
Source : "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 360, 1991.
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“Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.”
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“Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision of that 'rarely glimpsed bright face behind/ the apparency of things'? Here, I suppose, we ought to try the impossible task of defining poetry. No one definition will do. But I must admit to a liking for the words of Thomas Fuller, who said: 'Poetry is a dangerous honey. I advise thee only to taste it with the Tip of thy finger and not to live upon it. If thou do'st, it will disorder thy Head and give thee dangerous Vertigos.”
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“Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit you, it's hit me when it comes to you.”
Source : Nora Roberts (2009). “Black Hills”, p.296, Penguin
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“You just witnessed something I've never seen in my entire life. They just called that team (Tennessee) the winner. They said whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, (whistles) come back here. Then they called us the winner. I'm a tell you right now as an experience, dammit, I'm going to enjoy that one as much as I hate to admit it.”
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“Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.”
Source : "Valentino: A Stylish Career Laid Bare". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. April 19, 2009. 
