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• We humans have indeed always been adept at dovetailing our minds and skills to the shape of our current tools and aids. But when those tools and aids start dovetailing back - when our technologies actively, automatically, and continually tailor themselves to us, just as we do to them - then the line between tool and user becomes flimsy indeed.

  Andy Clark

  Technology, Skills, Mind

  Andy Clark (2004). “Natural-born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I like to think of myself as a pirate and you're just walking that person out on the plank. And then you pull them back when you get what you want. Of course, sometimes, in the beginning, you're going to push a little too far.

  Bob Johnson

  Thinking, Pirate, Want

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• Look at the NBA players back when Magic and Kareem played in the early 80's with the short shorts, look at what Michael looked like when he first came in the league compared to when he left. Every sport evolves. Every sport gets bigger and more athletic, and you have to keep up.

  Tiger Woods

  Sports, Player, Nba

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 13, 2006.

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• Back when I was in high school, I came out onstage with my guitar and had four guys playing behind me. We were just playing a dance, but I was standing in front of an audience rocking out. I'm still rocking out like when I was a kid. I haven't changed.

  Dion DiMucci

  Kids, School, Guitar

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• If you don't give something back when you get, you don't keep.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Giving, Ifs

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• Back when I was a kid, I never liked the kind of kids that my kids have become. They're privileged and have things very easy. But I'm proud of them. None of my kids are getting high, they love school, they're very popular.

  Mike Tyson

  School, Kids, Getting High

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You must learn to look at people who are angry with you straight in the eye without getting angry back. When children see their parents treating them this way, they then recognize the parents' authority. It speaks louder than words. Their new respect for the parents is as good for them as it is for the parents. It never works to demand respect of children. It must be given willingly as a result of strength of good character in the parents, which is manifested by their non-reaction to stress in the children.

  Roy Masters

  Children, Stress, Character

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• I'm a Pele fan from way back when I was a kid, and then there was always this thing later about Pele and Maradona. I was young and impressionable as a kid but it was always Pele for me.

  Alex Ferguson

  Kids, Fans, Way

  Interview with Charlie Rose, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. March 10, 2013.

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• I tell people that the scales lie. You may have played basketball and weighed 175 pounds, with a 30-inch waist, back when you were in college. And you may still weigh 175 at 55. But you probably have a 35-inch waist and you've probably lost 30 or 40 pounds of muscle -- and gained 30 or 40 pounds of fat. The tape measure doesn't lie. Get that tape measure out and put it on your hips and your waist. Keep checking it. And keep exercising and cutting those calories down until that tape measure gets close to where you were in your prime.

  Jack LaLanne

  Basketball, Lying, Cutting

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• Back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade-that's all that we knew. But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field-to enhance their physical appearance. I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it. You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, Running, People

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• Actually way back when Abhishek and I were just co-actors, I kept telling him 'let's be a part of a troupe and go on a world tour'. And he kept on saying 'It's not the right time'. But I never thought that my wish will be fulfilled in such a grand way and that we will be part of the team as man and wife.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Team, Men, Wife

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• I'm stoned on my music. I'm intoxicated by my joyful calendar between the tours, and the hunting, and the charity work, and the family time, and just my lifestyle living on a ranch in Texas and back when I lived on my ranch in Michigan. It's the epitome of individual independence, self-sufficiency, hands-on, earthly celebration and we tour every summer like complete animals.

  Ted Nugent

  Summer, Hunting, Animal

  Source: hardrockhaven.net

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• I fell in love with the art of acting back when I was 10 years old, actually.

  Sinqua Walls

  Art, Years, Acting

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• The memory is perpetually looking back when we have nothing present to entertain us. It is like those repositories in animals that are filled with food, on which they may ruminate when their present pastures fail.

  Joseph Addison

  Memories, Animal, May

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.563

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• I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.

  G-Eazy

  Hair, Sixth Grade, Grades

  "G-Eazy: 'I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop'". Interview with Paul MacInnes, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2014.

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• I think what tends to embarrass me most is how much I struggle at the little things that seem to come so easily to most people, mainly involving routine and self-care. It's hard for me to do things like cook a meal, not be in a constant apocalyptically late rush everywhere I go, to put something back when I'm finished with it. I seem to be hardwired for chaos and disorganization.

  Alissa Nutting

  Struggle, Thinking, Self

  "A Teachable Moment". Interview with John Lee, logger.believermag.com. August 6, 2013.

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• This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.

  Ursula Burns

  Office, Waiting, Siege

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• I always refer back to the days of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, the Rat Pack. Back when everyone wore a suit because that's what it was to be an entertainer. You were stylish and you were fly, and it was an effortless fly.

  Ne-Yo

  Rats, Suits, Dean

  "A Blogger & A Gentleman: Buzzworthy Goes Backstage With Ne-Yo". Interview with Tamar Anitai, www.mtv.com. June 11, 2008.

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• Back when I was dating, the dreaded C word was Commitment. As soon as most men found out I had a child, they ran. If I ever got close enough to say the words, 'I love you,' they ran faster.

  Regina Brett

  Children, Love You, Commitment

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• I'm from Toronto. It's a lot more laid back. When you are thrust into different environments, there is an odd adaptation period. And then there are times when unfair, unkind, untrue things are written about you. That bothers me less now.

  Mike Myers

  Laid Back, Different, Toronto

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky).

  Serge Schmemann

  Axes, Evil, Lists

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• Way back in the '70s, I was approached to talk about the story I'd write for a Spider-Man movie. They also talked to me about Batman. I had to think about it, but that was way, way back when.

  John Carpenter

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• I had more material on weather than anyone else, I guess, ... back when I was traveling a lot on the road as a standup comic, between airport security and the weather... I just wanted to be prepared for sitting in the airport.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Humor, Airports

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• When I was broke, no one ever offered to buy me a beer. Now that I have quite a bit of money, everybody tries to buy me beers. Where were all these people back when I was in college and broke?

  Chris Moneymaker

  Beer, College, People

  "Moneymaker under a microscope". Interview with Bernard Lee, www.espn.com. June 5, 2008.

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• I guess Titanic because it made the most money. No, I`m kidding. I don`t really have a favorite. Maybe Terminator because that was the film that was the first one back when I was essentially a truck driver.

  James Cameron

  Firsts, Film, Truck

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