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"They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style."

"They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style."

Frankie Avalon, American Actor

End, Singing, Song, Style

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"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."

"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."

Frank Zappa, American Musician

End, Ending, Fire, Nostalgia, World

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"Sorry I had to be so nasty to you Janina, at the end of a scene."

"Sorry I had to be so nasty to you Janina, at the end of a scene."

Daniel Massey, British Actor

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"I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man."

"I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man."

Anna Nicole Smith, American Model

End, HusbEnd, Fight, Man, Worth

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"I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do."

"I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do."

Joan Allen, American Actress

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"A real estate closer. Oh, what's that? I'm a real estate opener. What is a real estate closer? You mean at the end where you've got to sign all those papers?"

"A real estate closer. Oh, what's that? I'm a real estate opener. What is a real estate closer? You mean at the end where you've got to sign all those papers?"

Louie Anderson, American Comedian

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"We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury."

"We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury."

Evangelista Torricelli, Italian Scientist

End, Mercury, Open

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"Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film."

"Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film."

Keir Dullea, American Actor

End, Ending, Film, Intentions

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"There's a lot of Doyle in me. I don't know where I begin and Doyle ends or where Doyle begins and I end."

"There's a lot of Doyle in me. I don't know where I begin and Doyle ends or where Doyle begins and I end."

Glenn Quinn, Irish Actor

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"In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end."

"In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

End, Revolution

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"It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end."

"It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end."

Glenn Ford, American Actor

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"You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present."

"You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present."

William H. O'Connell, American Clergyman

End, Intentions, Man, Oil

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"From where started, I think it is too far down to try and win a championship at the end of the season, although we had a very good first race at Mondello and scored some good points."

"From where started, I think it is too far down to try and win a championship at the end of the season, although we had a very good first race at Mondello and scored some good points."

David Leslie, American Journalist

End, First, Race

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"Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began."

"Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began."

Ralph A. Cram, American Architect

End, Revolution

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"Shoot for the moon - if you miss you'll end up in the stars."

"Shoot for the moon - if you miss you'll end up in the stars."

Artie Shaw, American Musician

End, Moon, Stars

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"I think I have made an impact in the workplace and I do believe that will prevail over any of the other things in the end."

"I think I have made an impact in the workplace and I do believe that will prevail over any of the other things in the end."

Paula Jones, American Celebrity

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"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end."

"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

End, Journey, Ursula K. LeGuin

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"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."

"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Passing beneath the dance hall, thinking again of this book, I realized suddenly that our life had come to an end: I realized that the book I was planning was nothing more than a tomb in which to bury her - and the me which had belonged to her. That was some time ago, and ever since I have been trying to write it. Why is it so difficult? Why? Because the idea of an "end" is intolerable to me."

"Passing beneath the dance hall, thinking again of this book, I realized suddenly that our life had come to an end: I realized that the book I was planning was nothing more than a tomb in which to bury her - and the me which had belonged to her. That was some time ago, and ever since I have been trying to write it. Why is it so difficult? Why? Because the idea of an "end" is intolerable to me."

Henry Miller, American Author

End, Loss, Writing, Memory

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"Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years."

"Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

End, Unhappiness, Years

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"You know you've reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh."

"You know you've reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

End, Truth, Regret, Wisdom, Life

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"I didn't even feel my face hitting the pond. Everything was darkness, glorious darkness and the final, perfect absence of pain. It was done, all of it, the running and the fighting, and the pain. After everything that I'd gone through, it was finally over, and this time, the water would carry me home."

"I didn't even feel my face hitting the pond. Everything was darkness, glorious darkness and the final, perfect absence of pain. It was done, all of it, the running and the fighting, and the pain. After everything that I'd gone through, it was finally over, and this time, the water would carry me home."

Seanan McGuire, American Author

End, Pain, Escape, Darkness, Struggle

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"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end."

"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Vayoo ansha.I shook my head and whispered, 'Never. For good and always, you have lost me. Na me lapay kahLahn. Not anymore."

"Vayoo ansha.I shook my head and whispered, 'Never. For good and always, you have lost me. Na me lapay kahLahn. Not anymore."

Kristen Ashley, American Novelist

End, Loss, Separation, Love, Memory

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