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“I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.”
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“It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal.”
Source : Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.384, Vintage
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“My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“You know, a few months ago, I made a terrible mistake. I realized something, and instead of crushing the thought the moment it came I... I let it hang on, and now I know it to be true. And I'm afraid it's stuck in my head forever. These are the best days of our lives. It's a terrible thing to know, but I know it.”
Source : "Fictional character: The Count". "The Boat That Rocked", www.imdb.com. April 1, 2009.
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“Even the National Bank of Romania doesn't have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at an acceptable level, because they're drawing close to a floor below which the bank's reserves can't drop. The central bank has to wait for a moment of calm to efficiently conduct its interventions.”
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“People react positively when things are clear and understandable.”
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“The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.”
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“all the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry.”
Source : "Proceedings of the Gibbs Symposium: Yale University, May 15-17, 1989" by D. G. Caldi, George D. Mostow, (p. 230), 1989.