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“I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.”

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Author:Damon Lindelof

“The first bill that President Obama signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. I think it says something about his priorities that the first bill he put his name on has my name on it too. As he said that day with me by his side, "Making our economy work means making sure it works for everyone."”

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Author:Lilly Ledbetter

“I think I was righteous. I saw myself as the good guy in my own movie. I didn't get into many fights when I was younger, but when I did, they were righteous. I always thought I was defending something good. I fought for friends who couldn't fight for themselves. I was still being selfish and arrogant, but I was focused on what was fair and unfair.”

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Author:Jo Nesbo

“It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.”

Ifs Made Would Be Chance Fairs Pity Contact Frustrated

Book:The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver

Source: The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver

“People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.”

People Men Hurt Fairs Love Hurt Hurting People

Author:David Ortiz

“Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not... to Bill O”

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“I feel a great responsibility playing a historical figure because whether they were good or bad, I feel like the person deserves a fair shake. It's like being the executor of their estate in some ways.”

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Author:Vincent Piazza

“There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.”

Ifs Mean Enough Bigs Mother Fairs Introducing Misconception Arranged Marriage

Author:Archie Panjabi

“Now, the president would like to do tax reform, which would obviously lower rates for most people in America and make the tax code fair and get rid of loopholes and special treatment. But absent tax reform, the president believes the right way to get our fiscal house in order is ask the wealthy to pay their fair share.”

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Author:David Plouffe

“I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair.”

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Author:Donald M. Payne

“Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.”

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Author:Jason Patric

“Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the creation of fair and equitable rules to enhance the development prospects of developing countries.”

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Author:Kamla Persad-Bissessar

“I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.”

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Author:Pauley Perrette

“It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.”

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Author:Trevor Phillips

“Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.”

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Author:Randy Quaid

“We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.”

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Author:Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

“I think it's a little unfair for people to say you're not paying your fair share of taxes. I'm paying what I'm supposed to pay. Change the law, and I'll pay what I'm supposed to pay.”

People Thinking Littles Law Pay Share Taxes Fairs Unfair Fair Share

Author:David Rubenstein

“A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?”

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Author:Johannes Rau

“The Government's mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century.”

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Author:Kevin Rudd

“Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake.”

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Author:Pete Rozelle

“My four criteria: I don't want to work with people I don't like; I don't want to work in a business I either don't like or don't understand; I don't want to work for nothing unless I choose to, and I do a fair amount of that already; and I want to have some fun.”

People Want Fun Four Amount Fairs Criteria

Author:Stuart Rose

“If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I like to be a very fair person.”

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Author:Alan Sugar

“President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.”

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Author:Cristina Saralegui

“Fair Game Theory: If you are dumb enough to be drained by people then you are fair game.”

People Ifs Enough Games Theory Fairs Dumb Drained Fair Game

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?”

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Author:Richard Trumka

“Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.”

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Author:Ratan Tata

“Throughout my years of public service, I've listened to the voices of the gay and lesbian community, whether through whispered confidences or public declarations. I understand what it truly means to say that all people should be treated equally, and I'll always stand up for fair and equal treatment of gay and lesbian Americans.”

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Author:Mark Udall

“I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years. I have areas that I say are my areas.”

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Author:Bobby Vinton

“On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.”

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Author:Charles M. Vest

“I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.”

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Author:George Weah

“There are really only three important things to remember in life: To care, to share, and to be fair. This is not a new idea at all, and yet, observing how most people live their lives, you might think it was.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.”

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Author:Bethenny Frankel

“My dear friend, to be both powerful and fair has always been difficult for mankind. Power and justice have always been seen like day and night; this being the case, when one of them is there the other disappears.”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“God brings men [and women] into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse [teach and improve] them. [It is fair and appropriate to get excited about what those lessons and improvements to you will mean for the future happiness of you and those you care about.]”

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Author:John H Aughey

“I feel like I've come off as an outspoken woman. Sometimes I think I've come off as confrontational. But I feel like it's been pretty fair. Those are parts of me.”

Thinking Feels Sometimes Fairs Outspoken

Author:NeNe Leakes

“Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.”

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Author:Stephen F. Lynch

“There's no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity, the news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, 'Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.'”

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Author:Al Franken

“It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.”

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Author:Felix Frankfurter

“The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had people come out of that and have careers, but I think there was a pretty intense backlash, too.”

People Thinking Careers Fairs Towns Train Intense Hey Hops Backlash Lilith Bummer

Author:St. Vincent

“It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.”

Should Enough My Own Simple Fairs

Author:Moon Unit Zappa

“We didn't see [the NBA lockout] as a victory at all. It was far from what we set it out to accomplish in bargaining, but I thought it was a fair compromise.”

Victory Fairs Accomplish Compromise Nba Bargaining

Author:Adam Silver

“Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.”

People Hard Courses Natural Gun Fairs

Author:Edward Abbey

“If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.”

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Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market.”

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Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence

“When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this hour divinely fresh and still, the fair face of every flower salutes me with a silent joy. . . . All the cares, perplexities, and griefs of existence, all the burdens of life slip from my shoulders and leave me with the heart of a little child that asks nothing beyond the present moment of innocent bliss.”

“Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the particular Congress that enacted a particular provision. That methodology is not mine nor, I think, the one that courts have traditionally followed. It is our task, as I see it, not to enter the minds of the Members of Congress - who need have nothing in mind in order for their votes to be both lawful and effective - but rather to give fair and reasonable meaning to the text of the United States Code, adopted by various Congresses at various times.”

“The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.”

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Author:Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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