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• Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that's really frightening you--the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself.

  Seth Godin

  Mean, Goal, Proud

  "Crash diets and good habits". sethgodin.typepad.com. August 21, 2012.

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• I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  America, Mankind, Ultimate

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• I think [game music] is something that should last with the player. It's interesting because it can't just be some random music, but something that can make its way into the player's heart. In that sense, this not only applies to game music, but I feel very strongly about composing songs that will leave a lasting impressionWhat I must not forget is that it must be entertaining to those who are listening. I don't think there's much else to it, to be honest. I don't do anything too audacious, so as long as the listeners like it, or feel that it's a really great song, then I've done my job.

  Yasunori Mitsuda

  Song, Jobs, Heart

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• Lemberger's stories are marvelous compounds of scholarship, imagination and empathy. Brought to life with rich historical detail, these biblical women, sidelined and silenced for centuries, prove to be audacious, utterly relatable, and spellbinding companions.

  Michelle Huneven

  Biblical, Imagination, Empathy

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• Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Morning, Laughter, Boredom

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.170, The Floating Press

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• Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in Team of Rivals, he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious.

  Douglas Wilder

  Running, Team, Names

  "Obama-Clinton ticket for 2012" by Douglas Wilder, www.politico.com. August 2, 2010.

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• I'm a humble guy, but I'm audacious.

  Andy Grammer

  Humble, Guy

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• Confidence and courage are special skills to the art ... Within the four walls of his study, the artist should be modest, work diligently and conscientiously. While for the public, he'll show himself audacious, yes even into cheerful boldness. And so a new public's darling has arisen.

  Robert Schumann

  Art, Wall, Skills

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• In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.

  William Shakespeare

  Tongue, Modesty, Duty

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 100

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• When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said we'll land a man on the moon in eight years and bring him back. That was an audacious goal to put forth in front of the American people.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Men, Eight

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2012.

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• You can go back 500 years. You cannot find a more audacious plan.

  Joe Biden

  Years, Plans

  "Grapevine: De Niro apologizes for 'first lady' joke", www.foxnews.com. April 5, 2012.

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• The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as "a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures." A crucible was the vessel in which medieval alchemists attempted to turn base metals into gold. That the alchemists inevitably failed in their audacious attempts doesn't denigrate the power of the crucible as a metaphor for the circumstances that cause an individual to be utterly transformed.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Powerful, Political, Crucible

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to be audacious, to take chances. It has to consider the probability that it would be wrong in a good many cases and take the consequences later.

  Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

  Museums, Hands, Choices

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• There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. Every writer, every actor, every director knows who Ripley is. We've made careers and lives out of pretending, making things up, inhabiting other people's stories and lives. That's what I do every day. . . . The story is so audacious and subversive: a central character who behaves badly and isn't apparently caught. That intrigued me no end.

  Anthony Minghella

  Character, Heart, Careers

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• It seems insane-so violent and loud. It's audacious that you would even think such a thing.

  Dan Winters

  Thinking, Insane, Violent

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• Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer always knows that he is justly punished; but when a government takes the life of a man without the consent of his conscience, it is an audacious government, and is taking a step towards its own dissolution.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Steps, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.252, Graphic Arts Books

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• Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Weakness, Firm, Timidity

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• Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel.

  J. D. Greear

  Generosity, Focus, Radical

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• Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a language more fearless and beautiful than that used by conformist writers to greet the twilight.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Beautiful, Twilight, Effectiveness

  Eduardo Galeano (1983). “Days and Nights”, p.177, NYU Press

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• I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks, give much for little money, and make my shows worthy the support of the moral and refined classes.

  P. T. Barnum

  Thinking, Class, Giving

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• Saw #‎ Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Thinking, Saws, Filmmaking

  Twitter post from Jan 22, 2015

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• The Sarah Palin choice both its timing and the fact that it was her, it was really an audacious strategic move by the McCain campaign to try to change the trajectory of the 2008 presidential race and the initial launch was very successful. She didn`t withstand the scrutiny very well though and the close questioning.

  Rachel Maddow

  Moving, Successful, Race

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There's something to be said for going right into people's living rooms. I think actors have always loved that medium - you're right in there with people in their homes. A lot of very audacious work is being done on television.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Home, Thinking, People

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• Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can. Abbott brings to vivid life four extraordinary and audacious women, and runs glorious roughshod over all our traditional notions of the role of women in the Civil War.

  Megan Abbott

  Running, Liars, War

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• I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution, what depths of the man are revealed in this solution!' What does that mean?

  Andy Warhol

  Mean, Men, Copying

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