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• A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever.

  Alfred Tennyson

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• Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That’s the classic great entrepreneur.

  Mohnish Pabrai

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• I don’t think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is almost a cliche now to wonder why this living legend is not more widely read.

  Khaled Hosseini

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• Emotionally, shows like ‘Cheers’ and ‘Taxi’ were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.

  Dan Harmon

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• I read everything. I’ve always got a book on the go and I’m really nerdy about it, I get through books and don’t remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.

  Rebecca Hall

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• I’m drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who’s probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That’s the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they’ll make. There’s a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore.

  Kurt Sutter

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• I want to be seen as a classic model.

  Reeva Steenkamp

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• Russia is classic fascism.

  Daniel Silva

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• The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic ‘Baker Street’ has to be the ‘Ulysses’ of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft’s sax solo, creating one of the Seventies’ most enduringly creepy sounds.

  Rob Sheffield

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• One of the things that make Liars so fascinating after five albums, each one so completely different from the others, is that even though they play around with all the classic tropes of art-damaged angst-noise perv-rock, they exude a totally cheery and boyish enthusiasm onstage, goofing around with their keyboards and beatboxes.

  Rob Sheffield

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• A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

  Italo Calvino

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• If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.

  Liev Schreiber

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• I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.

  Fred Savage

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• Now that I’m taking some time off from school, I’ve been reading a lot to make sure I don’t forget everything. It’s mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the ’40s and ’50s.

  Fred Savage

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• I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

  Frances McDormand

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• I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So whatever. I listen to all if it. Classic rock and classic pop, all of that.

  John Legend

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• I don’t believe in balance, not in the classic way.

  Marissa Mayer

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• I’ve been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.

  Samuel L. Jackson

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• You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

  William J. H. Boetcker

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• These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.

  Rob Morrow

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