„Because you had to be a big shot, didn't you
You had to open up your mouth
You had to be a big shot, didn't you
All your friends were so knocked out
You had to have the last word, last night
You know what everything's about
You had to have a white hot spotlight
You had to be a big shot last night.“

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— Billy Joel

Big Shot.
Song lyrics, 52nd Street (1978)

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As quoted by Michael Parker in Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography (2009)

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— Eminem American rapper and actor 1972

"Lose Yourself".
2000s, 8 Mile (2002)

„When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.“

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— Ernest Hemingway, buch Fathers and Sons

Nick Adams of "Fathers and Sons" in Winner Take Nothing (1932)

„Look
If you had
one shot
to sit on your lazy butt
and watch all the TV you ever wanted
until your brain turned to mush
Would you go for it?
or just let it slip?
Yo“

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— "Weird Al" Yankovic American singer-songwriter, music producer, accordionist, actor, comedian, writer, satirist, and parodist 1959

"Couch Potato", Poodle Hat.
Song lyrics

„the less you had, the more careful you had to be about everything you did have.“

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Quelle: Clockwork Angel

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— Gertrude Stein American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays 1874 - 1946

Quelle: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 2

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Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us.
"There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.“

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— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

Quelle: The Lover's Dictionary

„Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.“

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— E.M. Forster, buch Maurice

Quelle: Maurice

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— Colson Whitehead novelist 1969

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— Hans Frank German war criminal 1900 - 1946

Hans Frank in a 1940 interview, published in the Völkischer Beobachter on 6 June 1940

„You always break the kindest heart
With a hasty word you can't recall,
So if I broke your heart last night
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— Doris Fisher American musician 1915 - 2003

Song You Always Hurt the One You Love

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— Cassandra Clare American author 1973

Quelle: Saving Raphael Santiago

„You have no idea about presents or what they mean. The last
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“You wanted a weapon.”
“It was a stick.”
“It had a bow on it.”
“It was a stick.”
“I thought you liked the stick. You laughed.“

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— Derek Landy Irish children's writer 1974

Quelle: Kingdom of the Wicked

„Got my faith, where's yours? Do you still believe in me?
Didn't I give everything I had to give you to make you see?“

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— Eminem American rapper and actor 1972

"Believe"
2010s, Revival (2017)

„He came your way
And when he had to go
There were roses growing in the snow
Silently you'll go to the shadow of your soul
And you know that it was like this before we had to go
You will never see these lights
Glowing in your nights
Until you feel this way.“

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— Nico German musician, model and actress, one of Warhol's superstars 1938 - 1988

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„Over the last five years you people were so good — over tax cuts, WMD intelligence, the effect of global warming. We Americans didn't want to know, and you had the courtesy not to try to find out. Those were good times, as far as we knew.“

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— Stephen Colbert American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor 1964

White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)
Kontext: As excited as I am to be here with the president, I am appalled to be surrounded by the liberal media that is destroying America — with the exception of Fox News. Fox News gives you both sides of every story: the president's side, and the vice president's side. But the rest of you, what are you thinking, reporting on NSA wiretapping or secret prisons in eastern Europe? Those things are secret for a very important reason: they're super-depressing. And if that's your goal, well, misery accomplished. Over the last five years you people were so good — over tax cuts, WMD intelligence, the effect of global warming. We Americans didn't want to know, and you had the courtesy not to try to find out. Those were good times, as far as we knew.