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I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just cant sustain it. – Colin Quinn

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You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. Theres no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or youre finished. Its impossible to predict anything. – Colin Quinn

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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. – Colin Quinn

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You cant make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody. – Colin Quinn

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Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone. – Gro Harlem Brundtland

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Let your mind alone, and see what happens. – Virgil Thomson

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In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters. – Paul Gauguin

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Whats important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone. – Hermann Broch

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Sometimes on lonely nights the man in the moon is my best friend. – Terri Guillemets

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But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the films about. A very straightforward young woman whos very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of. – Jenny Agutter

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