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• What this means in practice is that if you are not a born worrier you have nothing to worry about (though of course you wouldn't be worrying anyway), whereas if you are a worrier by nature there is absolutely nothing you can do about it, so you may as well stop worrying, except of course you can't.

  Bill Bryson

  Mean, Practice, Worry

  Bill Bryson (2000). “The Complete Notes”, Random House

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• All his words and actions would now be fit for his daughter’s ears and eyes. Life would be lived as if under [her] constant scrutiny. He would never do anything that might cause her pain or anxiety or embarrassment and there would be nothing, absolutely nothing in his life to be ashamed of anymore.

  David Nicholls

  Daughter, Pain, Eye

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• So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly stand for what they most dislike, the opposite of the blond beast intellectualist, individualist, supernationalist, pacifist, inky, plump... How should they know the glory of the free-ranging intellect and soft objective sympathy to whom money and violence, drink and blood and pomp, mean absolutely nothing?

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mean, Blood, Opposites

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• But even with my minimal amount of fame, there are certain perks. Recently, I was at a movie premier, and at the party after the movie, Meryl Streep was loose, walking around the room like a normal person. Absolutely nothing was preventing me from lunging toward her and shrieking "Dingoes ate my baby! Dingoes ate my baby!

  Augusten Burroughs

  Baby, Party, Rooms

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• Beetee is still messing round the tree, doing I don't know what. At one point he snaps off a sliver of bark, joins us, and throws it against the force field. It bounces back and lands on the ground, glowing. In a few moments it returns to its original color. "Well, that explains a lot," says Beetee. I look at Peeta and can't help biting my lip to keep from laughing since it explains absolutely nothing to anyone but Beetee.

  Suzanne Collins

  Color, Land, Force Fields

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.363, Scholastic Inc.

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• The most meaningless term in the English language is "I take full responsibility." When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Mean, Responsibility, Language

  "Goldberg: The media is slobbering over Hillary Clinton". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 25, 2013.

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• I think the challenge is going out in front of a paying audience with absolutely nothing and trying to entertain them for two hours. Thankfully, I only think about that right before we go on, and then once we're out there, everything's fine.

  Colin Mochrie

  Thinking, Two, Challenges

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I intentionally built a business that has absolutely nothing to do with appearance.

  Kathy Ireland

  Appearance, Built

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• I know quickly whether a guy is boyfriend material. If I can have a good time doing absolutely nothing with him, then that's boyfriend material for me. Like if we're able to have fun at a gas station. I've had some really good times at gas stations.

  Alyson Hannigan

  Funny, Cute, Boyfriend

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• Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

  Bob Dylan

  Way, Easy, Obvious

  Bob Dylan (1995). “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to your field.

  Junot Diaz

  Artist, People, Fields

  "Junot Díaz: a life in books". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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• What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

  Edgar Degas

  Understanding, Charming, Conversation

  Edgar Degas (1948). “Letters”

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• I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it.

  Wilford Brimley

  Judging, People, Littles

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• The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Kids, Three, Looks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People are so quick to judge and make decisions for themselves about situations they know absolutely nothing about.

  LeAnn Rimes

  People, Judging, Decision

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• I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have absolutely nothing to do with me can destroy my life and the lives of people I love.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Hate, Moon, Volcanoes

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The stupidest thing she knew was for people to act like they knew all about the things they knew absolutely nothing about.

  Jostein Gaarder

  People, Stupidest

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• My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking.

  J. D. Salinger

  Thinking, Necks, Minutes

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• Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, College, Creative

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Sep 26, 2012

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• There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Success, Knowledge, Funny Thanksgiving

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.819, GENERAL PRESS

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• The thing about 'Watchmen' that people should know is that when it came out there was absolutely nothing like it. Up until then, comics were about the same thing: a guy in tights fighting another guy in tights and saving the girl - that was it.

  Gerard Way

  Girl, Fighting, People

  "How Watchmen changed my life" by Gerard Way, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2009.

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• Well, I've got nothing to hide. Absolutely nothing.

  Rod Stewart

  Wells

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• 'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another.

  Eli Roth

  Waste, Firsts, Wasting Time

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• Last I looked - and I'm not a candidate - but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to do with parties, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It's most states are winners take all.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Party, Reading, College

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• I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing. Then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique.

  Paul Klee

  Knowing Nothing, Drawing, Work Out

  "Artists on Art, from the 14th - 20th centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, p. 442, 1972.

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