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Your path is at your feet whether you realize it or not. That is the most important thing that I will say but I will not enlarge upon it.

Agnes Martin

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Martin, Agnes. Quoted in Agnes Martin: Paintings, Writings, Remembrances, written by Arne Glimcher. Phaidon Press, 2012.

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Literature is humanity talking to itself.

Norman Rush

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Mortals

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Rush, Norman. Mortals. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

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The really important "great" things are never center stage of life's dramas; they're always "in the wings." That's why it's so essential for us to be mindful of the humble and the deep rather than the flashy and superficial.

Fred Rogers

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 144.

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We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat.

Donald Rumsfeld

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Rumsfeld, Donald. This Week with George Stephanopoulous. 30 Mar. 2003. ABC.

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Have you ever crossed the road and looked the wrong way? And, hey, presto, there's a car nearly on ya. So, what do you do? Something very silly. You freeze. Your life doesn't flash before you, 'cause you're too fuckin' scared to think—you just freeze and pull a stupid face. But the pikey didn't. Why? Because he had plans of running the car over.

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Snatch. Directed by Guy Ritchie, SKA Films, 2000.

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It's not always easy for a father to understand the interests and ways of his son. It seems the songs of our children may be in keys we've never tried. The melody of each generation emerges from all that's gone before. Each one of us contributes in some unique way to the composition of life.

Fred Rogers

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 83.

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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

Iain Duncan Smith

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Smith, Iain Duncan. Speech to the Conservative Party Conference. The 2002 Conservative Party Conference. 10 Oct. 2002, Bournemouh, England, UK.

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There seems to be a general overall pattern in most lives, that nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then all of a sudden everything happens.

Fay Weldon

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Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo, 2002.

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But you know the thing about romance is people only get together right at the very end.

Love Actually

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Love Actually. Directed by Richard Curtis, Working Title Films/StudioCanal/DNA Films, 2003.

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I have been in three different prisons, Montgomery. Three different countries. And you know what I learned? I learned prison is a bad place to be.

25th Hour

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25th Hour. Directed by Spike Lee. Touchstone Pictures/25th Hour Productions/40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks/Gamut Films/Industry Entertainment, 2002.

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You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then when you have the chance to do it better refuse to go near it.

Václav Havel

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Havel, Václav. To the Castle and Back. Vintage, 2007.

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No, no, really! Memory's not perfect. It's not even that good. Ask the police. Eyewitness testimony is unreliable. The cops don't catch a killer by sitting around remembering stuff. They collect facts, they make notes and they draw conclusions. Facts, not memory. That's how you investigate. I know. It's what I used to do. Look, memory can change the shape of a room. It can change the color of a car and memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation. They're not a record. They're irrelevant if you have the facts.

Memento

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Memento. Directed by Christopher Nolan, Summit Entertainment/Team Todd, 2000.

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This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism. We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

Tony Blair

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Blair, Tony. Statement after September 11th attacks. 11 Sept. 2001, London, England, UK. Broadcast.

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Everybody I have ever known or read about who was really a great artist has worked until they dropped dead.

Arnold Newman

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Newman, Arnold. Interviewed by Alexis Anne Clements. American Suburb X, 20 Oct. 2009, www.americansuburbx.com/2009/10/interview-interview-with-arnold-newman.html.

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We'll drive. Keep driving. Head out to the middle of nowhere, take that road as far as it takes us. You've never been west of Philly, have ya? This is a beautiful country, Monty. It's beautiful out there, looks like a different world. Mountains, hills, cows, farms, and white churches.

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25th Hour. Directed by Spike Lee. Touchstone Pictures/25th Hour Productions/40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks/Gamut Films/Industry Entertainment, 2002.

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We all make mistakes. We know we make mistakes. I don't know any military commander, who is honest, who would say he has not made a mistake. There's a wonderful phrase: "the fog of war." What "the fog of war" means is: war is so complex it's beyond the ability of the human mind to comprehend all the variables. Our judgment, our understanding, are not adequate. And we kill people unnecessarily.

Robert McNamara

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The Fog of War. Directed by Errol Morris, RadicalMedia/SenArt Films, 2003.

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On this February day, as this nation stands at the brink of battle, every American on some level must be contemplating the horrors of war. Yet this chamber is, for the most part, silent-ominously, dreadfully silent. There is no debate, no discussion, no attempt to lay out for the nation the pros and cons of this particular war. There is nothing. We stand passively mute in the United States Senate, paralyzed by our own uncertainty, seemingly stunned by the sheer turmoil of events.

Robert Byrd

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Byrd, Robert C. Speech on the impending invasion of Iraq. 12 Feb. 2003, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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I’m messed up. I am. You know, on the one hand, I want to forget her. On the other hand, I know that she’s the only person in the entire universe that will make me happy.

(500) Days of Summer

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(500) Days of Summer. Directed by Marc Webb, Searchlight Pictures, Watermark, and RatPac Entertainment, 2009.

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I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary.

Philip Levine

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Levine, Philip. "The Unwritten Biography." Interviewed by Edward Hirsch. Poets.org, 29 Aug. 2001, poets.org/text/unwritten-biography-philip-levine-and-edward-hirsch-conversation.

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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at it while it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.