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

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

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Bill Maher: And I see you've got a lot of bling.
Jeremiah Cummings: I like gold. The people want you to look well.
Bill Maher: That's what pimps say about their women.

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

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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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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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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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Robert Shafran: When I tell people my story, they don't believe it. I guess I wouldn't believe the story if someone else were telling it, but, I'm telling it and it's true, every word of it.

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Journalist: Many people said that you are an 'Ice Woman'.
Anna Wintour: Well, this week it was pretty cold, that's all I can say.

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

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Jim Jones: Be assured in that choice is not ours now. It's out of our hands. Die with respect. Die with a degree of dignity. Lay down your life with dignity. Don't lay down with tears and agony. Stop this hysterics. Keep your emotions down. Children, it will not hurt if you'll be quiet.

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Billy Mitchell: ...but competetive gaming, when you wanna attach your name to a world-record, when you want your name written into history, you have to pay the price.

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Narrator: Every breath we take, and every drop we drink, depends on a healthy ocean. Now, their life depends on us.

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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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Johnny Knoxville: Hello, I'm Johnny Knoxville, Welcome to Jackass.

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