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Justin Bieber: Never Say Never picture

Justin Bieber: There's gonna be times where people tell you that you can't live your dreams. This is what I tell them: Never say never.

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Frédéric Bourdin - Imposter: Before I was born, I definitely had the wrong identity. I already didn't know - I was already prepared not to know who I really was. A new identity with a real passport, an American passport... I could go to the U.S., go to school there, live with that family, and just being someone and don't have never again to worry about being identified. I saw the opportunity.

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Steve-O: All right cast me out, goddammit.

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Zayn Malik: I'm just a little boy from Bradford and now I'm smashing it.

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Philippe Petit: Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.

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Bill Maher: If Santa Claus can hit every house in the world in one night.
Steve Burg: No, I don't believe in Santa Claus.
Bill Maher: Of course not. That's ridiculous. That's one man flying all around the world and dropping presents down a chimney. That's ridiculous. One man hearing everybody murmur to him at the same time... that I get.

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John Nichols: When the government turns tyrannical, it is your duty to overthrow it.
Michael Moore: Why not use Gandhi's way? He didn't have guns, and he beat the British Empire.
John Nichols: I'm not... familiar with that.

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Robbie Robertson - Guitar: The Band has been together 16 years. Together, on the road. We did 8 years in bars, dives, dance halls, 8 years of concerts and stadiums, arenas. We gave our final concert, The Band's final concert, and we called it The Last Waltz.

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Michael Moore: There are nearly 50 million Americans with no health insurance. They pray every day they don't get sick because 18,000 of them will die this year, simply because they're uninsured. But this movie isn't about them. It's about the 250 million of you who have health insurance. Those of you who are living the American Dream.

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Katy Perry: Thank you so much for believing in my weirdness.

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Madonna: I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.

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Michael Jackson: This is the moment. This is it.

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Tupac Shakur: What makes me saying 'I don't give a f - -' different than Patrick Henry saying 'Give me liberty or give me death'?

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Amy (2015)

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Nick Gatfield: She was a very old soul in a very young body.

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Israelite: You say the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. When exactly will it be?
Jesus: When you deregulate the banking industry.

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Steven Levitt - Author: The closest thing to a worldview, I would say, in "Freakonomics," is that incentives matter. Not just financial incentives, but social incentives and moral incentives.

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Eric André: It ain't a bunch of NASA scientists writing this shit.

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Stephen Hawking: I wanted to understand how the universe began.

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Eddie: I like my women like I like my coffee... covered in beeees.

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Adolf Hitler: The German people are happy in the knowledge that a constantly changing vision has been replaced by a steadfast pole.

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