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I am sorry if anyone was offended by the wardrobe malfunction during the halftime performance at the Super Bowl. It was not intentional and is regrettable.

Justin Timberlake

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Timberlake, Justin. Apology for Superbowl halftime show incident. 2 Feb. 2004. Houston, TX, USA.

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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Calvin Coolidge

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Coolidge, Calvin. In conversation with Herbert Hoover. c. 1930.

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Coolidge, Calvin. Quoted in Coolidge: An American Enigma, written by Robert Sobel. Regnery History, 2000.

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Deep within us—no matter who we are—there lives a feeling of wanting to be lovable, of wanting to be the kind of person that others like to be with. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.

Fred Rogers

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 52.

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It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.

Fred Rogers

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 174.

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Everybody blames the Jews for killing Christ, and then the Jews try to pass it off on the Romans. I'm one of the few people that believes it was the blacks.

Sarah Silverman

Jesus is Magic

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Jesus is Magic. Directed by Liam Lynch, performed by Sarah Silverman, Roadside Attractions, 2005.

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For the two of us, home isn't a place. It's a person. And we're finally home.

Stephanie Perkins

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Anna and the French Kiss

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Perkins, Stephanie. Anna and the French Kiss. Dutton Juvenile, 2010, ch. 47.

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What are you gonna do? Tell on me? You know you can't, buddy. It's guy code, ok? Guy's don't tell on other guys, that's something chicks do. You're not a chick, are you? Alright. Good talk. I'll see you out there.

Old School

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Old School. Directed by Todd Phillips, The Montecito Picture Company, 2003.

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Well, I can tell you about the river
Or we could just get in.

Bill Callahan

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From the Rivers to the Ocean

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Callahan, Bill. "From the Rivers to the Ocean." Woke on a Whaleheart. Drag City, 2007.

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How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.

Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections

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Franzen, Jonathan. The Corrections. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

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When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong along with the fearful, the true mixed in with the facade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.

Fred Rogers

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 95.

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I am no one special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect, I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived. I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and for me, that has always been enough.

The Notebook

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The Notebook. Directed by Nick Cassavetes, Gran Via, 2004.

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Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

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The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate, it's the sand of the Coliseum. He'll bring them death—and they will love him for it.

Gladiator

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Gladiator. Directed by Ridley Scott. DreamWorks Pictures/ Scott Free Productions/Universal Pictures/Red Wagon Entertainment, 2000.

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Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind... But we won't break.

Fred Rogers

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 94.

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Believe it or not-and I know that most people do not-violence has declined over long stretches of time, and today we may be living in the most peaceable era in our species' existence.

Steven Pinker

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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

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Pinker, Steven. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Viking Books, 2011, preface.

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I'd rather die drunk, broke at 34 and have people at a dinner table talk about me than live to be rich and sober at 90 and nobody remember who I was.

Whiplash

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Whiplash. Directed by Damien Chazelle, Blumhouse Productions/Right of Way Films/Bold Films, 2014.

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Now, you're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

Donald Rumsfeld

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Rumsfeld, Donald. News conference. 22 Jan. 2003.

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Hope has never trickled down. It has always sprung up.

Studs Terkel

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Terkel, Studs. Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times. New Press, 2003.

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Err in the direction of kindness.

George Saunders

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Saunders, George. Convocation speech for the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University. 11 May 2013, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA.

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By the way, I would have voted for Obama for a third term, if I could. Best president in my lifetime, hands down.

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Get Out. Directed by Jordan Peele, Blumhouse Productions/QC Entertainment/Monkeypaw Productions, 2017.

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