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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.


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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.


Samuel Goldwyn
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Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.
Henry Louis Gates
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Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
Neal Boortz
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While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King's dream.
Adam Schiff
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
Adam Peaty
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He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
Ludwig Tieck
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.


e. e. cummings
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And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.
Brad Bird
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Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.


Mickey Spillane
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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
Al Sharpton
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If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.


Johnny Carson
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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
Elias Canetti
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The lifelong health problems of John F. Kennedy constitute one of the best-kept secrets of recent U.S. history - no surprise, because if the extent of those problems had been revealed while he was alive, his presidential ambitions would likely have been dashed.
Robert Dallek
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I envy Jesus because he's dead.


T. C. Boyle
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Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.


Leon Battista Alberti
If you see 'The Shining' with Jack Nicholson, you remember him not only because he is Jack Nicholson and because he does a wonderful job, but because he is a threat. The bad guy is someone people will have in their minds forever if it's a good bad guy.
Jordi Molla
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As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then.
Thomas Frank
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