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It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
Author:
Frank Zappa
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Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.
Author:
Bobby Womack
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I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism. And that's why it has to be a broad and sustained campaign.
Author:
Paul Wolfowitz
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Author:
Orson Welles
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Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.
Author:
Zach Wamp
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I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.
Author:
Bill Walsh
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It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project.
Author:
Donnie Wahlberg
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The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
Author:
Jack Vance
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Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican colleagues refused to include it in today's legislation and America's middle class will surely suffer that choice greatly.
Author:
Ellen Tauscher
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
Author:
Igor Stravinsky
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The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.
Author:
Sting
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A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.
Author:
Howard Staunton
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No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to.
Author:
Robert Smith
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Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
Author:
Neil Simon
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Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
Author:
William Shatner
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Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.
Author:
Robert Service
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Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.
Author:
Compay Segundo
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Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.
Author:
Oscar Sanchez
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There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
Author:
J. Rowling
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I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
Author:
Fred Rogers
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The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.
Author:
Jill Robinson
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Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.
Author:
Tim Robbins
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So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.
Author:
Donna Rice
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The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president.
Author:
Michael Reagan
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I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.
Author:
Gilda Radner
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So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.
Author:
Colin Quinn
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And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is.
Author:
Jerry Pournelle
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It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.
Author:
Bill Paxton
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In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.
Author:
Fulton Oursler
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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
Author:
George Orwell
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I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.
Author:
Michael Ondaatje
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I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.
Author:
Michael Ondaatje
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Anyway, the title The War of the Insect Gods came before we had that ending, before we knew they had become gods. That we knew the evolutionary cycle they went through. Before we even knew anything about that. We had an ending.
Author:
Michael O'Donoghue
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Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.
Author:
Barack Obama
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Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.
Author:
Franco Nero
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When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.
Author:
Jeanne Moreau
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Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.
Author:
Donald Mitchell
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A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
Author:
Kate Millett
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
Author:
Arthur Miller
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It should come as no surprise to any of us that the solution to ending bickering in families is to talk to one another more often without blaming, making judgments, or insulting one another.
Author:
Donald Medeiros
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To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only.
Author:
Donald McKay
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Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
Author:
Karl Marx
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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
Author:
Thurgood Marshall
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I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald's previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife.
Author:
Marla Maples
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As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.
Author:
Hermann Maier
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In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.
Author:
Gustav Mahler
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Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.
Author:
Christopher Love
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The first script I got was Narc and I really responded to it; it reminded me of a '70s type movie, I really liked the characters, I didn't anticipate the ending.
Author:
Ray Liotta
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The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.
Author:
Donna Leon
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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
Author:
Harold Kushner
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Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
Author:
Coretta King
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To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.
Author:
Krzysztof Kieslowski
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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.
Author:
Pauline Kael
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When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
Author:
Adam Jones
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I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey.
Author:
John Irving
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I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
Author:
Patricia Ireland
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My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
Author:
Patricia Ireland
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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
Author:
William Howells
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I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.
Author:
Tom Hooper
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A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
Author:
John Heywood
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The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.
Author:
Don Henley
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As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.
Author:
John Hawkes
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The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor.
Author:
Jennifer Granholm
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By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism.
Author:
Jim Gerlach
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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
Author:
J. Fuller
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I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.'
Author:
Tina Fey
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
Author:
Federico Fellini
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There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family.
Author:
Jimmy Fallon
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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
Author:
Tryon Edwards
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It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.
Author:
Dale Earnhardt
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Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.
Author:
Keir Dullea
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I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.
Author:
Cory Doctorow
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
Author:
Ted Demme
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Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.
Author:
Jeffery Deaver
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Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Author:
Winston Churchill
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We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government.
Author:
Dennis Cardoza
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Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs.
Author:
Anne Campbell
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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
Author:
George Burns
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I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.
Author:
Harold Budd
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One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.
Author:
Jeff Bridges
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
Author:
Elizabeth Bowen
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A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
Author:
Bobby Bowden
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Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.
Author:
John Boehner
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People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.
Author:
Nellie Bly
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Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Author:
Henry Beecher
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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
Author:
Mary Bateson
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As the war on terrorism spreads and prolongs, the fruits of ending the threat of terrorism around the world will be tempered with a whole new series of problems to be addressed and resolved.
Author:
Charles Bass
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
Author:
Roland Barthes
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
Author:
Ralph Bakshi
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In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.
Author:
George Baker
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What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.
Author:
George Baker
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All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.
Author:
Conrad Aiken
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The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.
Author:
Gerry Adams
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We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.
Author:
Gerry Adams
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We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.
Author:
Mahmoud Abbas
