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“Smuggling poems out of prison in the soles of mt shoes i'm way past finding salvation in the arms of a woman, I look out my window and see burning flowers and starving armies but when I look up into the night sky I see the souls of dead heroes”
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“There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.”
Source : Dispatch to Sir Francis Walsingham, 17 May 1587, in 'Navy Records Society' vol. 11 (1898) p.134
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“Pop stars should not eat.”
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“I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.”
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“If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.”
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“The likelihood is that any English-speaking skier has more words for different types of snow than any inhabitant of Alaska or Greenland.”
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“I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever 'fixed' at the Philadelphia Convention... To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. [Progressive]”
Source : "RNC uses Thurgood Marshall speech to attack Supreme Court nominee Kagan" by Russell Berman, thehill.com. May 11, 2010. 
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“I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
