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“I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.”

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Author:Justin Zackham

“One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well.”

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Author:Justin Zackham

“We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.”

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Book:The Great Movies IV

Source: The Great Movies IV

“I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.”

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Author:Brian J. White

“I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.”

Book Air Wall Deliverance Confinement

Book:Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist

Source: Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist

“I would describe my style as off the wall. I like stuff that doesn't match. I just like to stand out.”

Stuff Style Wall Standing Out Off The Wall

Author:Kevin Durant

“That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.”

World Stills Soul Desire My Own Wall Morality Diversity Mirrors Fallen Abstract Sensations Metaphysics Centre

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing.”

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Author:Glenn Greenwald

“The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.”

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Author:Jean-Bertrand Aristide

“I came to love Fenway. It was a place that rejuvenated me after a road trip; the fans right on top of you, the nutty angles. And the Wall. That was my baby, the left-field wall, the Green Monster.”

Left Fans Fields Wall Baby Green Monsters Angle My Baby Road Trip Nutty Left Field

Author:Carl Yastrzemski

“I’m the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think about this: the first thing we ever did, when we started turning into humans, was draw a line across the cave door and say: Wild stays out. What I do is what the first men did. They built walls to keep back the sea. They fought the wolves for the hearth fire.”

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Author:Tana French

“The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.”

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Author:Charlie Pierce

“Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.”

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Author:Rachel Hartman

“When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.”

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Book:What Good is God?: On the Road with Stories of Grace

Source: What Good is God?: On the Road with Stories of Grace

“I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.”

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Author:Richard Bode

“There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.”

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Author:David Harvey

“If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.”

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Author:David Harvey

“Come into my lap and sit in the center of your soul. Drink the living waters of memory and give birth to yourself. What you unearth with stun you. You will paint the walls of this cave in thanksgiving.”

Giving Soul Water Memories Wall Birth Drink Paint Your Soul Caves Lap

Author:Meinrad Craighead

“Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.”

Men War Friendship Cities Enemy Knowledge Learning Building Wall Lessons Ships Foe

Author:Aristophanes

“You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports.”

Want Sports Player Team Wall Balls Bangs Sports Team Team Player

Author:Dom Starsia

“Prayer and humility, along with a hatred for sin, produces a ‘mind to work.’ ‘So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work’ (Nehemiah 4:6). True revivals of holiness always produce workers. Books and seminars and lectures don’t—but revival does!”

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Author:David Wilkerson

“To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.”

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Author:Peter M. Brant

“Having worked at four separate Wall Street firms, having seen a variety of talent at those places, and having competed against Goldman as a banker, one thing you have to be struck by is the power of their recruiting.”

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Author:William D. Cohan

“The most important job you'll ever have is in the walls of your own home.”

Important Home Jobs Wall Important Jobs

Author:Jane Clayson Johnson

“The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.”

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Author:William Henry O'Connell

“The art of investing is not about figuring out what has already happened. It’s about anticipating the futureand creating the future that others will read about in The Wall Street Journal.”

Art Happened Streets Wall Creating Investing Journal Wall Street Journal Creating The Future

Author:Joshua Rogers

“In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out.”

Kids School Bits Middle Wall Teeth Dirt Middle School Recess

Author:Russell Wilson

“My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.”

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Author:Buzz Bissinger

“Because actually it's really hard to get things made. It takes years. To fight the fights you inevitably have to fight, even when you've produced Harry Potter, you'd better have the commitment and the passion to knock down walls, not take no for an answer.”

Years Made Hard Fighting Passion Answers Wall Commitment Made It Harry Potter Potters

Author:David Heyman

“Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there's no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.”

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Author:Evelyn Lauder

“It's amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable barrier. You can have gas on one side and vacuum or liquid on the other, and with a wall only one atom thick, nothing would go through it.”

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Author:Paul McEuen

“I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.”

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Author:Al Seckel

“Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.”

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Book:The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind

Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind

“Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.”

Mind Heart May Path Advice Wall Standing

Author:Bodhidharma

“It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything." The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and the knife is at your throat, when a circle of teenagers is kicking you as you curl into a ball on the sidewalk, or when the man walks into your office building or school with a pair of guns and starts shooting, only violence, or the reasonable threat of violence, is going to save your life. In the extreme moment, only force can stop force.”

“Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator, a superb bookkeeper; we will be held responsible for every bit of our economic folly.”

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Author:Thomas Berry

“To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love.”

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Author:Williston Fish

“As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That stone is a stone. My beautiful fusion with the things of this world was over.”

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Book:Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

Source: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

“The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what is empty turns its face to us and whispers: 'I am not empty, I am open'.”

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Book:The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems

Source: The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems

“They give me a shot and a handful of pills to swallow. I stare at the thin red wall of my inner eyelid and listen to my skin and I can't be sure how the medication is affecting me. I can't remember how I'm supposed to feel. I can't remember my name. I have never seen my face.”

Giving Feels I Can Remember Faces Names Wall Shots Red Skins Give Me Staring Emptiness Pills Handful Detachment Medication Numbness Eyelids

Author:Will Christopher Baer

“Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest of lovers' beds, baby cribs, meal tables, all the solid commerce of life in this earth, and feel apart, enclosed in a wall of glass.”

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Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962

“The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.”

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Book:Small Wonder

Source: Small Wonder

“My oh my, think of what you're going to be like when you have your completely Heavenly body that can do all the things you can do now and more, including flying and floating and appearing and disappearing and walking through walls and locked doors and having marvelous supernatural miraculous powers of defense and judgement upon your enemies, protection for your friends, and to be able to help the poor humans that are still living on Earth during the Millennium to learn more about the Lord and love Him and serve Him even as you do.”

“Our Heavenly bodies will be able to dematerialise, pass from dimension to dimension, walk right through walls and locked doors as Jesus did, appear and disappear at will and travel with the speed of thought!”

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Author:David Berg

“Being able to disappear and appear and go through walls and fly with the speed of thought isn't going to make you half as happy as to see those you witnessed to, Hi there! Wow, didn't I meet you on the streets? Didn't I talk to you about Jesus? Wow! Here you are! Hallelujah! That's going to be the biggest thrill of all!”

Able Jesus Half Streets Wall Speed Disappear Heavenly Wow Thrill Hallelujah

Author:David Berg

“All the work I did was to challenge politics, culture, and women's rights. I felt like I really wanted to break out. That's why I wanted to use graffiti. It's more open. I don't need people to come to an exhibition. Graffiti gives a voice to the walls.”

People Needs Giving Use Wanted Culture Felt Voice Challenges Break Rights Wall Womens Rights Break Out Exhibitions Graffiti

Author:Malina Suliman

“Hillary Clinton at the end of the day will be a friend of Wall Street.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“I have taken on virtually every element of the big money establishment, whether it's the Koch brothers, and the big energy companies, whether it's the industrial complex, whether it's Wall Street... I have taken on the drug companies. I have taken on the insurance companies.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.”

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Author:Agnes Denes

“I don't like not saying anything. I don't like having a wall between me and the audience. I want to break down that wall and communicate with the people in the room, 'cause we're there together and we're having a nice moment.”

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Author:Aurora Aksnes

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