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“In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game.”
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“If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.”
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“I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.”
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“There isn't a plant or a business on earth that couldn't stand a few improvements-and be better for them. Someone is going to think of them. Why not beat the other fellow to it?”
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“You can't tell how good a man or a watermelon is 'til they get thumped.”
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“The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific”
Source : "On Growing Up Tough (The Purple Lodge & The Hippies)". Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1971.
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“As I get older I find that the friendships that are the most certain, ultimately, are the ones where you and the other person have made substantial amounts of money for one another.”
Source : Jonathan Lethem (2005). “Men and Cartoons”, p.58, Vintage
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“For me, I'm OK doing embarrassing things, when it's with somebody else. I'm not the only person to look at.”
Source : "Interview: the Cast of Crank". Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. August 29, 2006. 
