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Sometimes it's Britney Spears and sometimes it's Carrie Fisher. I can't tell if I've got a Lolita complex or an Oedipus complex.


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LONI LOVE Raymond's ... Britney (Spears) and our baby.
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QUENTIN TARANTINO I have to dedicate this to Britney (Spears) and our baby,
BRAD GARRETT [My daughter Lourdes and I] listen to Britney Spears songs together.
MADONNA My daughter Lourdes and I listen to Britney Spears songs together.
MADONNA My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.
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MARY O'BRIEN I heard that Britney Spears is buying, ... That's what I heard. I don't know if it's true.
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ALEX TURNER If I was still at school, I'd be looking at Britney Spears and dying to be her.
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JIBS On Britney Spears: It's a bit sad to wear a bikini to sell records.
SAMANTHA MUMBA I'm kind of like Britney Spears having a headache. Everybody wants to know about it.
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BRAD GARRETT Sometimes a problem itself offers its own solution.
RAJEN JANI Ben Affleck! Are you sure I can’t talk you into Matt Damon? We could double-date
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GEORGE BURNS I can't begin to tell you how complex it all gets. It's horrible,
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MAHMOUD EL HALLAB Sometimes my mind has a mind of its own.
E.R. ROCK It just reeks around here and sometimes its unbearable.
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KEVIN BACON Las Vegas honors women - Celine Dion, Bette Midler, Britney Spears. I love that Las Vegas celebrates...
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NOAH FELDMAN We'll stay at 68 TB for a year or two, ... But as shots get more complex ... it's hard to tell.
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ELISE ALLEN Being empty makes me whole sometimes. I wonder if every hollow hole has its own solidity of fulfillm...
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BEN CARSON Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. An...
BEN CARSON I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b...
BEN SCHNETZER Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.
BEN SHAPIRO The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where the...
BEN OKRI I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like preci...
BEN WHISHAW Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin...
BEN PARR Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid...
BEN BERNANKE Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies see...
BEN HINSON I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
BEN KATCHOR I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics...
BEN ELLIOT Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His...
BEN SHAPIRO President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and ...
BEN SHAPIRO Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another r...
BEN SHAPIRO Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, s...
BEN SHAPIRO The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for t...
BEN SHAPIRO Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do ...
BEN SHAPIRO President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed presi...
BEN SHAPIRO There are times that everyone hates his or her job. Were they freed from the economic consequences o...
BEN SHAPIRO I love bummer songs.
BEN GIBBARD There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get a...
BEN CARSON Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would ha...
BEN SHAHN