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“In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.”
Source : John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.113, MIT Press
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“As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.”
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“Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward the hard sounds and rhythms that come out of the Anglo-Saxon roots of English.”
Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
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“It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.”
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“I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.”
Source : "Sundance Breakout Lizzy Caplan on "Save the Date" and Her Raunchy Comedy "Bachelorette". Interview with Bilge Ebiri, www.vulture.com. January 25, 2012.
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“If I'm playing hockey, I want to win all the (trophies) I can.”
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“Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right.”
Source : "Cancer doctor under fire for providing false hope to patients". www.foxnews.com. November 18, 2013.
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“Tom Ridge announced a new color-coded alarm system. ... Green means everything's okay. Red means we're in extreme danger. And champagne-fuschia means we're being attacked by Martha Stewart.”