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I'm like a teenage boy - I eat like one and know as much cooking as one. Neither do I bake, and I can always be counted on to bring the wine to a pot luck.
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Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.


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Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy.
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I'll never forget a meeting with one publisher where they said, 'We don't publish books for teenage boys; teenage boys don't read.'
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Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.


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Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along.


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The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.
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All the sounds on 'Trapped in the Closet' - the knockin' on the door, when I grab the keys, when I walk down the stairs, the car horns - we sampled all of those things around my house.
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Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
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Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.
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The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.
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By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.


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I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
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It is by giving our whole hearts to the Master and keeping His commandments that we come to know Him. In time, through the power of the Atonement, our hearts are changed, and we can become like Him.
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There was a time in L.A. when I drove to 7-Eleven to go grocery shopping, and I locked my keys in my car, which wasn't insured. My wallet was in there, and I couldn't call AAA, because I only had $7 in my bank account. It was one of those moments where I was like, 'O.K., I literally have nothing right now.'
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If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be.
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I became convinced that there was greater satisfaction from giving my money away and seeing something come out of the ground, like a hospital or a university.
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I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
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No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
Isabel Paterson