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• At certain times each year, we journalists do almost nothing except apply for the Pulitzers and several dozen other major prizes. During these times you could walk right into most newsrooms and commit a multiple axe murder naked, and it wouldn't get reported in the paper because the reporters and editors would all be too busy filling out prize applications.

  Dave Barry

  Years, Editors, Naked

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• In the concordance of Nicola Six's kisses there were many subheads and subsections, many genres and phyla - chapter and verse, cross-references, multiple citations.

  Martin Amis

  Kissing, Six, Crosses

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• The multiple failings of our flawed financial sector are jeopardizing, not only the retirement security of our nation's savers but the economy in which our entire society participates.

  John C. Bogle

  Retirement, Investing, Financial

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• When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.

  Warwick Davis

  Character, Film, Sequels

  "Warwick Davis talks Leprechauns, Johnny Depp, and his desire ti 'just keep working'". Interview with Scott Neumyer, www.ifc.com. March 16.

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• I never got into MMA to be famous, I got into it to compete and pursue athletic aspirations. They were my pure intentions. I came from a true sport, an Olympic background, winning multiple national, international and Olympic medals. So I entered MMA as a sport.

  Matt Lindland

  Sports, Winning, Mma

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I'm always intrigued by new challenges and things that I've never done before and new experiences. It sounds so simple, but the primary interest is just something that's good and instills within me some kind of gut feeling that feels like something that I'm passionate and excited about, and there can be multiple variables that can instill that. It can be simply a filmmaker, it can just be a character, it can just be the script, or a combination of all those things. But, I'm always just looking to do things that I've never done before, primarily.

  Elijah Wood

  Character, Simple, New Experiences

  Source: collider.com

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• If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.

  Bob Corker

  Ceilings, Saving, Debt

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• I think all of us who have been in Afghanistan on the ground multiple times know that what we're doing there on the ground is just not sustainable.

  Bob Corker

  Thinking, Afghanistan, Knows

  "Bob Corker Says War in Afghanistan 'Not Sustainable'" by Jonathan Karl and Gregory Simmons, abcnews.go.com. June 13, 2011.

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• I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or 14, because I was the kind of kid that was curious about the mysterious human mind - I hoped to learn about telekenisis, multiple personalities, psychosis, and various other cool and terrible things that happened inside people's heads.

  Dan Chaon

  Reading, Kids, Psychosis

  Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. February 15, 2012.

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• We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies.

  Cofer Black

  Enemy, Allies, Terrorist

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• 5% of women have true multiple orgasms only through intercourse and these women typically find oral sex uncomfortable.

  Gail Saltz

  Sex, Uncomfortable, Intercourse

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• We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics because we'll never get anywhere until we find more effective ways of talking through difference. We should be able to say, “This is my truth,” and have that truth stand without a hundred clamoring voices shouting, giving the impression that multiple truths cannot coexist.

  Roxane Gay

  Talking, Voice, Differences

  "Peculiar benefits" by Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 16, 2012.

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• In Tar Baby, the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity which sees the individual as a kaleidoscope of heterogeneous impulses and desires, constructed from multiple forms of interaction with the world as a play of difference that cannot be completely comprehended.

  Toni Morrison

  Baby, Play, Differences

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• Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say, a novel by Dickens), ignoring outside stimuli while so engaged, preferring a single information stream, and having a high tolerance for long focus times. Hyper attention is characterized by switching focus rapidly among different tasks, preferring multiple information streams, seeking a high level of stimulation, and having a low tolerance for boredom.

  N. Katherine Hayles

  Long, Boredom, Focus

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• I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Block, Projects, Writer's Block

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• I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

  Robert Lopez

  Smart, Thinking, Profound

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• One of the myths about the Internet of Things is that companies have all the data they need, but their real challenge is making sense of it. In reality, the cost of collecting some kinds of data remains too high, the quality of the data isn't always good enough, and it remains difficult to integrate multiple data sources.

  Chris Murphy

  Real, Data, Challenges

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• What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

  Susan Cain

  Mistake, Tasks, Looks

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.85, Broadway Books

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• Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. Thats how you stand out in the crowd.

  Gary Cohn

  Jobs, Mistake, Opportunity

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• Americans need help understanding their world now more than ever. [TV] believes it's filled its obligation to the public because it's presented both sides. But most of what we're living through now has multiple sides, and those sides, if you take the extreme oppositional views, have to be brought together for people to make a decision about how to act on the information.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Views, People

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• Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.

  Janine Benyus

  Resilience, Use, World

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• My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about how there are all these different ways you can be intelligent, like eight or 10 of them or something. And one of them is emotional.

  Lynn Shelton

  Mom, Book, Reading

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• Trust is tough. Once trust has been broken by multiple people on multiple occasions, believing in anyone or anything becomes increasingly difficult. Much of the skepticism of our world can be traced back to broken trust.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Believe, Our World, People

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• Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Different, Needs, Closets

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.101, Macmillan

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• I think there are multiple studies now to demonstrate that diversity, a better balance between genders, but also between different fields as well, is actually conducive to better growth, better bottom line, better results.

  Christine Lagarde

  Thinking, Diversity, Growth

  "IMF chief Christine Lagarde on removing hurdles from a strong global economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 2, 2014.

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