"Steal a little and they throw you in jail; steal a lot and they make you king."

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“You have to be let alone to really accomplish anything.”

“Love is so simple, to quote a phrase; you've known it all the time, I'm learnin' it these days.”

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“If there's anyone who knows, is there anyone who cares?”

“I am a writer an a singer of the words I write I am no speaker nor any politician an my songs speak for me because I write them in the confinement of my own mind an have t cope with no one except my own self.”

“I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.”

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"The desire to be a father begins in the son, who sees in his own dad who he could become."

— Warren Farrell

Science1943

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"I'm TV's Craig Ferguson, please sit down relax and: "take off your pants"; "dip your hand into a bowl of warm water and fall fast asleep"; etc."

— Craig Ferguson

Entertainment1962–2014

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"You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright jou…"

— Richard Bach

Literature1936

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"...and if you are common, you can dress up as a woman, show you behind or write poems: there's nothing offensive about a naked behind if it's everybody's; each person will be mirrored in it."

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosophy1905–1980

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