You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion ’tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought. Richard Blackmore The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had [...]
Eric Bogosian
I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975. Eric Bogosian I write, but I also act. Eric Bogosian Ensemble is hard to do. It’s like 3-D chess. Eric Bogosian For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my [...]
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Dennis C. Blair
I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given. Dennis C. Blair The bottom line is these techniques have hurt [...]
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Brad Bird
Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won’t win is to assume that you will. Brad Bird I got my heroes secondhand, from television and [...]
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Arrigo Boito
When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew. Arrigo Boito
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William Blackstone
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual’s private rights. William Blackstone So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. William Blackstone [...]
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Sophie Ellis Bextor
Some people can get away with being very sexy to men and not looking like a complete cow, but I didn’t think I was in a position where people knew me well enough. Sophie Ellis Bextor I used to be hung up on my figure, but it’s a waste of time. I don’t believe in [...]
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Nuno Bettencourt
I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it’s got green in it. I don’t know what the hell that was about. Nuno Bettencourt Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even [...]
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Maurice Bishop
Forward ever, backward never. Maurice Bishop
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Louise Bogan
Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity. Louise Bogan The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. Louise Bogan Your work is carved out of agony as a statue [...]
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