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— Ron White

Entertainment1956–2006

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"Chocolate bread! That's how they start the day. It's only going to escalate from there. By lunchtime you're fucking everybody you know. I was in Paris recently—they are very good at pleasure. I was wa…"

— Dylan Moran

Entertainment1971

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— Kenneth Clark

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"I never expected that one could fall so completely in love with a nation and a people. I already knew that very soon I would thrill at everything American, love everything American, perhaps blindly, b…"

— Raymond Loewy

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