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If I must fall, may it be from a high place.
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These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality.
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Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls.
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Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of '68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.
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A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
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You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.
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We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state.
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It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method, supported by little data, and certified chiefly by the hunches of the managers
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His lessons were chock-full of analogies for a variety of musical situations. Those little things were my favorites. 'No . . . that's too much vibrato. It's like putting bright red lipstick on a beautiful woman.' I always thought it was funny that when you broke a musical rule-like accenting a weak beat-he would turn his head away from you sharply, almost as though he were in pain. It's like you just slapped him in the face by being unmusical.
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I miss singing. I did Broadway forever.
