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I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

~Alan Cumming

Topics: Backwards Been Boy Exploded Grown-Up Had Life Little Lived Me My Life Now Out Should

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The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.

~Alfred Nobel

Topics: Anvil Beginning Exploded Father First First Time Hammer In The Beginning Me Only Part Professor Saw Show Some Spreading Struck Time Touched War Without

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Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.

~Andy Goldsworthy

Topics: Abandoned Any Checked Elements Every Exploded Explosion Firing Leave Often See Split Stones Worst

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When I was growing up in the '80s and working in the theater, David Mamet exploded with a whole new reworking of what dialogue should sound like. It was punchy and raw and repetitive, bursting with dynamic. I remember that switching on a lot of lights for me.

~Anthony Mccarten

Topics: Bursting David Dialogue Dynamic Exploded Growing Growing Up Lights Like Lot Me New Raw Remember Repetitive Should Sound Switching Theater Up Whole Working I Remember

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Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion, but as the auction prices exploded everyone was beating a path to the galleries and artist studios in China. It became the 'China thing.'

~Arne Glimcher

Topics: American Art Artist Auction Beating Became Before Began China Chinese Collecting Collectors Donald Everyone Exploded Galleries Genuine Including Kent Passion Path Prices Some Studios Thing

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We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.

~Bob Brown

Topics: Bang Because Being Big Big Bang Billion Earth Exist Exploded Our People Potential Universe Years Years Ago

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I made a record album in 1960 and it exploded, and I got all these offers for TV.

~Bob Newhart

Topics: Album Exploded Got Made Offers Record Tv

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The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.

~Bob Odenkirk

Topics: Affecting Alternative Anything Been Cool Cool Thing Couple Couple Years Exists Exploded Now People Pretty Scene Seriously Still Taken Thing Think Years I Think

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When the vast baby-boom generation exploded into adolescence in the 1960s, marketers exulted. Advertising consultants, always eager to coin a phrase, began happily explaining to corporations the difference between 'teenyboppers' and 'counterculture consumers.'

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Adolescence Advertising Always Began Between Coin Consultants Consumers Corporations Difference Eager Explaining Exploded Generation Happily Marketers Phrase Vast 1960S

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I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I'm actually pretty good at it now. But my first time, the beans actually exploded in the pot, so I had black beans just dripping from the ceiling - which is actually a dream come true for most Cubans. It was a nightmare to clean.

~Danny Pino

Topics: Actually Beans Black Ceiling Clean Come Cuba Cuban Dream Dripping Exploded First First Time Good Grandmother Great Had How Just Know Make Most Nightmare Now Pot Pretty Pretty Good Recipe Those Time True Way Which

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