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Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark, The Aladdin, The Frontier, The Hacienda, The Stardust - all were imploded. -- Elayne Boosler
The Edmund Pettus Bridge - which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark - isn't symbolic of the Civil War in a meaningful way. It is, however, the modern-day battlefield where the voting rights movement was born. -- Douglas Brinkley
'Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films. -- Ridley Scott
That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie. -- Jeff Bridges
From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act. -- Kathleen Sebelius
The truth is that politicians are basically tied to trying to get reelected, so they can't really make landmark changes. -- Jim Brown
'America 24/7' will be a landmark series in documentary photography and the watershed event of the new digital photography age. -- Rick Smolan
When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints. -- Shia LaBeouf
All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism. -- Dick Schaap
Since her landmark 'Tapestry,' Carole King has both oversimplified and over elaborated that masterful album's style until her music has become something more overtly but less effectively personal. -- Jon Landau
And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed. -- Allen Klein
As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run. -- Barry Eichengreen
In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place. -- Tracy Kidder
I think the decision to make substances like steroids from plants, rather than from animal tissues, was a landmark in the history of medicine as well as the history of chemistry. -- Gregory Petsko
Mitt Romney would move the Court even further right, putting landmark decisions like Roe v. Wade at risk. Some say Romney would repeat the past. I disagree - he'd be worse. -- Chuck Schumer
To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things. -- Mary Hunter Austin
When I was a boy in Desuq, Egypt, a city on the Rosetta branch of the Nile, about 50 miles east of Alexandria, my family lived steps away from the local landmark, a mosque named for a 13th-century Sufi sheik. -- Ahmed Zewail
As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources. -- Veerappa Moily
Certainly in the Capitol you do get moments were you sort of take a deep breath and think of all the historic figures who have been in that building, like Abraham Lincoln, who have stood right in those same rooms to make the landmark decisions. -- Kevin Yoder
We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart. -- David R. Brower
In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.' -- Naomi Wolf
Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films, and I want to see whether '3 Idiots' will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country... Hopefully, we'll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films. -- Boman Irani
Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson! -- Andrew Gross
Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again. -- Julie Walters
You can't put the Hollywood sign in a movie without paying them. That is a landmark in L.A. I'm sorry, remove it from our skyline, then. You know? How dare they. That should be public domain, right? But it's privately owned, and they enforce that. They sue people. If you see it in the movie, they've paid for that. -- Dax Shepard
I'd love to become like Bill Murray, who was so funny on 'Saturday Night Live' and has gone on to do some of the landmark comedies people like. And then to add this whole other phase to his career with 'Lost in Translation' and 'Rushmore.' I always felt to be able to have something similar to that would be great. -- Will Ferrell
The power of the pen is landmark of life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films. -- Ridley Scott
I cited 'Catch-22' as a landmark film and one of my favourites. -- John Curran
My sex life is so bad, my G-spot has been declared a historical landmark. -- Joan Rivers
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty. -- George W. Bush
John Clare, in his poem To a Fallen Elm, makes the tree a selfmark as well as a landmark. -- Tim Fulford
One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic. -- Rem Koolhaas
America 24/7' will be a landmark series in documentary photography and the watershed event of the new digital photography age. -- Rick Smolan
Barack H. Obama is a landmark presidential figure as the first black, multiracial, multicultural president from Hawaii and the Pacific. -- Dinesh Sharma
The White House is apparently pushing to create more Latino-themed landmarks. Now that's in addition to our current Latino-themed landmark, California. -- Jimmy Fallon
Today's concrete-pouring ceremony of Chashma-2 marks yet another landmark in Pak-China relations and a milestone in the history of nuclear technology in Pakistan. -- Shaukat Aziz
A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller. -- Curtis W. Fentress
Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece. -- Christopher Bollen
Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who have died trying to visit it. -- Dave Barry
Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. -- Norman Jewison
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In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place -- Tracy Kidder
Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there. At eighty, people pick it up for you. -- Helen Van Slyke
Donald Verrilli has argued 37 cases in five years on behalf of the [Barak] Obama administration. Many of them turned out to be truly landmark cases. He is the seventh-longest-serving solicitor general in American history. -- Dahlia Lithwick
Optimal experience is that rare occasion when we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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