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Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to see if water moves faster than kerosene. When my father came out to smoke, a fire broke out.

~Ada Yonath

Topics: Another Another Time Arm Balcony Broke Calculate Came Faster Father Fire Height Moves Once Out See Smoke Than Time Tried Wanted Water I Tried

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People like RZA and DJ Premier are really on the balcony to scope my musical theories. They also help me focus on making sure I make money, making sure I get the notoriety I should, just regular stuff that friends do when you're in the business. And to call them friends is amazing.

~Adrian Younge

Topics: Also Amazing Balcony Business Call Focus Friends Get Help Just Like Make Making Me Money Musical Notoriety People Premier Really Regular Scope Should Stuff Sure Them Theories You Dj

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The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: After Allow America Awe Balcony Black Declined Elected Forty Forty Years Getting Idea Inspire King Luther Man Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Jr Power President Shot Stand Still Without Years

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I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.

~Dennis Quaid

Topics: African-American Balcony Because Black Color Drinking Grew Growing Growing Up Had Hatred Houston Just Just Because Like Mother People Really Remember Sat Second Separate Silly Skin Somebody Theater Thought Up Who I Remember

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The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.

~Donald G. Mitchell

Topics: Any Balcony Calling Edge Farther Flight Half Hope Lifetime Me Memories Moment Over Reach Sparrow Than Up World

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Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.

~Ernie Pyle

Topics: Again Balcony Bridges Certain Come Curve Dark Down London Look Night Odd Peace Peaceful Returned Silver Someday Stand Thames Want World

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