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"If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us."

"If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us."

Stendhal, French Writer

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"There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline."

"There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline."

Ricardo Montalban, Mexican Actor

Love, Discipline, Freedom, Parents

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"We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities."

"We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities."

Thomas Mann, German Writer

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"Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed."

"Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed."

Reinhold Niebuhr, American Theologian

Love, Power, Goodness

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"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."

"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."

Charles M. Schulz, American Cartoonist

Love, Nothing, Taste

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"And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process."

"And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process."

Alanis Morissette, Canadian Musician

Love, Time, People, Purpose

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"Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring."

"Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring."

S. J. Perelman, American Writer

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"In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage."

"In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage."

Gustav Mahler, Austrian Composer

Love, Drama, Ending

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"I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke."

"I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke."

Melissa Leo, American Actress

Love, Time, Habit, Struggle

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"I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself."

"I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself."

Michael Bolton, American Musician

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"Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts."

"Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

Love, Work, Soul, Hate

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"I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in."

"I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in."

Donald Norman, American Scientist

Love, People, Technology

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"Yeah sure, I'd love to have all my movies on DVD."

"Yeah sure, I'd love to have all my movies on DVD."

Jerry Bruckheimer, American Producer

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"I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion."

"I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion."

Siobhan Fahey, British Musician

Love, Music, Culture, Passion

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"I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love."

"I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love."

Shirley Knight, American Actress

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"Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God."

"Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God."

Herschel Walker, American Athlete

Love, Success, God, Being

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"But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play."

"But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play."

Alicia Keys, American Musician

Love, Dying, First, Play

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"Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not."

"Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not."

Judith Martin, American Author

Love, Country, Liberals, Manners

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"I love the confidence that makeup gives me."

"I love the confidence that makeup gives me."

Tyra Banks, American Model

Love, Confidence, Makeup

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"If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile."

"If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile."

Lynda Barry, American Cartoonist

Love, Time, Will

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"I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me."

"I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me."

Alicia Keys, American Musician

Love, Music, People, Hate

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"You can love me or you can hate me."

"You can love me or you can hate me."

Dennis Rodman, American Athlete

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"Love was the most savage monster of all."

"Love was the most savage monster of all."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Love, Truth, Regret, Wisdom, Power

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"The most important influence is all our lives are love. If we're never taught to love, then showing and accepting love becomes difficult."

"The most important influence is all our lives are love. If we're never taught to love, then showing and accepting love becomes difficult."

Ron Baratono, American Poet

Love, Learning, Influence, Emotion

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"I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff."

"I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff."

Thomas Jane, American Actor

Love, Old, Romantic

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"People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story."

"People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story."

Jim Lehrer, American Journalist

Love, People, Debate, News

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"Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix."

"Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

Love, Magic, Reality, Contrast

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"I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille."

"I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille."

Desi Arnaz, American Actor

Love, Name, Television

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"I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man."

"I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man."

Joan Crawford, American Actress

Love, Man, Woman

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"I love modeling."

"I love modeling."

Brooke Burke, American Model

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"You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born."

"You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born."

Raymond E. Feist, American Author

Love, Children, First, May

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"You're mortal, and only a mortal can afford to be romantic. When we conquered death, we murdered love."

"You're mortal, and only a mortal can afford to be romantic. When we conquered death, we murdered love."

Rick Yancey, American Author

Love, Mortality, Loss, Romance

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"In your eyes I can see my heart."

"In your eyes I can see my heart."

Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann, British Musician

Love, Heart, Emotion, Connection

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"Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult."

"Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult."

David Frost, English Journalist

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"The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test."

"The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test."

Joan Chen, Chinese Actress

Love, Sex, God, Help

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"Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in."

"Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Love, Rivalry, Morality, Emotion

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"The return makes one love the farewell."

"The return makes one love the farewell."

Alfred de Musset, French Writer

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"I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up."

"I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up."

Rachel Hunter, New Zealander Model

Love, Exercise, Kids, Talk

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"Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate."

"Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate."

Dorothea Lange, American Photographer

Love, Work, Exhaustion, Hate

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"I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything."

"I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything."

Roma Downey, Irish Actress

Love, Mother, Being, Kids

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"I love films where the world seems to be going a bit faster and everything's a bit brighter and more in focus."

"I love films where the world seems to be going a bit faster and everything's a bit brighter and more in focus."

Robbie Coltrane, Scottish Actor

Love, Focus, World

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"Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity."

"Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"I wanted to bring Lissa back, and I wanted to return to Adrian's arms again, return to his lips and all this life..."Hathaway! Good God, do I have to hose you down?"

"I wanted to bring Lissa back, and I wanted to return to Adrian's arms again, return to his lips and all this life..."Hathaway! Good God, do I have to hose you down?"

Richelle Mead, American Author

Love, Desire, Life, Emotion

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"I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean."

"I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean."

James Cameron, American Director

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"I'd worked with Mel Harris before, I love working with her, she's great."

"I'd worked with Mel Harris before, I love working with her, she's great."

David Keith, American Actor

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"I love being verbal in films."

"I love being verbal in films."

Sylvester Stallone, American Actor

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"In love, the one who runs away is the winner."

"In love, the one who runs away is the winner."

Henri Matisse, French Artist

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"Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death."

"Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Love, Death, Men, Martyrs

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"Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most."

"Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most."

Pat Conroy, American Writer

Love, Romance, Issued, Affection

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"I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out."

"I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

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