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The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck. ↗

— Elvis Presley

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I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest. ↗

— Laura Riding

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. ↗

— Karl Barth

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All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

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That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual. ↗

— Ben Harper

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The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income. ↗

— Dee Hock

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And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

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So we are disappointed that some of our closest allies, including Canada, have not agreed with us on the urgent need for this military action against Iraq. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

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People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in. ↗

— Margaret Cho

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I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace. ↗

— Ana Gasteyer

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