Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war.
BEN DREYFUSS
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Bear GryllsBear Grylls (Man, I wish life had emoticons, you know? So that when your dad pisses you off you could like click a mental button or something and just show him one of those rolleyes. That would rock) Anyway.
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Barry WebsterBarry Webster Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.
Barry BostwickBarry Bostwick She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
Barbara KingsolverBarbara Kingsolver As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed.
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