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"I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times."

"I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times."

Pat Metheny, American Musician

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"A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future."

"A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future."

Leonard Bernstein, American Composer

Day, Future, Infinite, Liberal

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"Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it."

"Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it."

Philip Seymour Hoffman, American Actor

Day, Desire, Fame

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"I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math."

"I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math."

Andrew Shue, American Actor

Day, First, Months, Students

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"Look, I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is. But if I wasn't in this position, I'm sure I would use it every day."

"Look, I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is. But if I wasn't in this position, I'm sure I would use it every day."

Jesse Eisenberg, American Actor

Day, Hearing, Interest, Talk

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"And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see."

"And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see."

Donald Cargill, Scottish Clergyman

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"When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing."

"When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

Day, Rest, Writing

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"I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him."

"I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him."

Yoko Ono, American Artist

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"I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That's the key."

"I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That's the key."

Warren Cuccurullo, American Musician

Day, Drinking, Key, Now

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"What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?"

"What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?"

William Law, English Clergyman

Day, Man, Night, Silly

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"It just comes down to taste at the end of the day, and that's something you can't really analyze. Yeah, I think to have it all there is basically best, regardless of whether there's hiss there as well."

"It just comes down to taste at the end of the day, and that's something you can't really analyze. Yeah, I think to have it all there is basically best, regardless of whether there's hiss there as well."

Sean Booth, English Musician

Day, End, Taste

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"As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don't need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this kind of transformation in the Middle East."

"As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don't need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this kind of transformation in the Middle East."

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Leader

Day, Lies, Weapons, Zone

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"I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline."

"I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline."

Arthur Godfrey, American Entertainer

Day, First, Song

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"I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that."

"I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that."

Sarah McLachlan, Canadian Musician

Day, Will, Years

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"I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day."

"I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day."

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Leader

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"I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day."

"I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day."

James Dean, American Actor

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"Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out."

"Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out."

Rider Strong, American Actor

Day, Murder, Stress

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"I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day."

"I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day."

Peter Ustinov, English Actor

Day, Fool, Order, World

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"I play piano every day."

"I play piano every day."

Sarah McLachlan, Canadian Musician

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"There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer."

"There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer."

Wentworth Miller, English Actor

Day, Moments, Prison

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"If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up."

"If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up."

Stevie Nicks, American Musician

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"I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime."

"I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime."

Esther Williams, American Actress

Day, Job, Order

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"If somebody ever wished to be me for a day, they'd be the most pissed-off person once they got here. They would be, like, in hell."

"If somebody ever wished to be me for a day, they'd be the most pissed-off person once they got here. They would be, like, in hell."

Jennifer Aniston, American Actress

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"You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day."

"You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day."

Tommy Shaw, American Musician

Day, Fun, Thinking

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"I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live."

"I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live."

Louis D. Brandeis, American Judge

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"I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel."

"I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel."

Nina Simone, American Musician

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"Rome was not built in one day."

"Rome was not built in one day."

John Heywood, English Dramatist

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"The most I've smoked in a day was over an ounce, in Germany."

"The most I've smoked in a day was over an ounce, in Germany."

Method Man, American Musician

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"Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups."

"Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups."

Branford Marsalis, American Musician

Day, Jazz, Talking

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"No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night."

"No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night."

Sally Stanford, American Celebrity

Day, Man, Night

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"There should be a law that there's a pajama day every few weeks."

"There should be a law that there's a pajama day every few weeks."

Alyson Hannigan, American Actress

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"At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove."

"At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove."

James Beattie, British Poet

Day, Forgetfulness, Song

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"As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day."

"As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day."

Vin Scully, American Celebrity

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"Then, as the day progresses, depending on how the product is coming in - for instance, the fish man will fax us and say black bass is great - throughout the day, we'll also make judgment calls and adapt to what's available."

"Then, as the day progresses, depending on how the product is coming in - for instance, the fish man will fax us and say black bass is great - throughout the day, we'll also make judgment calls and adapt to what's available."

Thomas Keller, American Celebrity

Day, Fish, Judgment, Man

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"Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me."

"Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me."

Jim Carrey, Canadian Comedian

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"If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be."

"If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be."

Zakk Wylde, American Musician

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"Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority."

"Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority."

William Jennings Bryan, American Lawyer

Day, Majority, Minority, Right

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"Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach."

"Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach."

James Lind, Scottish Scientist

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"A lot of feature films do two pages a day."

"A lot of feature films do two pages a day."

Timothy Bottoms, American Actor

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"I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born."

"I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born."

Paula Cole, American Musician

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"I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before."

"I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before."

David O. Selznick, American Producer

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"You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven."

"You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven."

Warren Cuccurullo, American Musician

Day, Road, Sleep, Training

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"Without a song, each day would be a century."

"Without a song, each day would be a century."

Mahalia Jackson, American Musician

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"In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight."

"In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight."

Corbin Bernsen, American Actor

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"They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years."

"They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years."

Jane Russell, American Actress

Day, Publicity, Years

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"A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."

"A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."

Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

Day, Man, Night, Sleep

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"I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way."

"I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way."

Stephen Colbert, American Comedian

Day, Friends, School

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"I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids."

"I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids."

Dolly Parton, American Musician

Day, Kids, Poor, School

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"I like 1977 because it is more primitive. If it were modern day, like one Universal guy was like wouldn't they just use their cell phone? I guess he did not read that it was 1977 in the script."

"I like 1977 because it is more primitive. If it were modern day, like one Universal guy was like wouldn't they just use their cell phone? I guess he did not read that it was 1977 in the script."

Rob Zombie, American Musician

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"I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair."

"I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair."

Julia Louis Dreyfus, American Actress

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