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• You don't realize how long that NFL season is. It's a long season, especially in your first year. Not only do you spend a lot of time preparing for the draft and working out, but they you have OTAs, minicamps, training camp, preseason games. By the time you get to week six you've already had one of the longest years of your football life and you still have 11 weeks to go, plus the playoffs.

  Giovani Bernard

  Football, Games, Nfl

  Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com.

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• Yoga is ideal for calming the mind and harmonizing with nature. Plus, since this meditation consists of listening to what's taking place in the instant, it brings the mind into the present, where the body resides, producing unification of mind and body.

  H. E Davey

  Yoga, Meditation, Listening

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• If we allow our one-and-a-half year old to "help" us fold laundry he will learn something about buttons, zippers, snaps, where things go, the physical properties of cloth, what happens when you drop it, how easy or hard it is to carry compared with everything else he has ever carried, what clean clothes smell like, how a big towel can turn into a small bundle, how the small bundle you just folded can turn into a big towel again, plus any songs we care to sing or stories or related or unrelated facts we care to pass on.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Song, Children, Zippers

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• A politician plus zero is not equal to zero; it is something minus!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Zero, Politician, Minus

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• The central benefit of Zen, in the context of ordinary ups and downs of life,is not in preventing the minus and promoting the plus,but in directing people to the fundamental reality that is not under the sway of ups and downs.

  Muso Soseki

  Reality, People, Ordinary

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• Regret is just perfectionism plus time.

  B. J. Novak

  Regret, Perfectionism

  B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.174, Vintage

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• In retailing, the formula happens to be a basic liking for human beings, plus integrity, plus industry, plus the ability to see the other fellow's point of view.

  James Cash Penney

  Integrity, Views, Point Of View

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• Outsourcing American jobs will prove to be a plus for the economy in the long run. It's simply a new way of doing international trade.

  Greg Mankiw

  Running, Jobs, Long

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• There is the sheer amount of Franklin's wisdom. And the talent. Franklin played four instruments. He was the nation's leading scientist and inventor, plus a leading author, statesman, and philanthropist. There has never been anyone like him.

  Charlie Munger

  Four, Talent, Franklin

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• I've got a group who can't play music, one bad comedian plus boyfriend, a nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads of 70-year-old religious maniacs looking for a fight and a fancy-dress contest that nobody knew about.

  Alan Bleasdale

  Religious, Fighting, Years

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• My dad always said, If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Plus that also works wonderfully as a metaphor.

  Emo Philips

  Dad, Hands, Metaphor

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• My sexuality is straight transvestite or male lesbian. It seems we are beyond the idea that I am gay and hiding it. If I had to describe how I feel in my head, I'd say I'm a complete boy plus half a girl. I don't seem to have the sixth sense that women have or their stronger senses of taste and smell. Gay men can also have it but straight men don't.

  Eddie Izzard

  Girl, Gay, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Canoe plus waterfall equals I don't go camping anymore.

  Demetri Martin

  Camping, Waterfalls

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• Congress shall also create a tax code weighing more than the combined poundage of the largest member of the House and the largest member of the Senate, plus a standard musk ox.

  Dave Barry

  House, Musk, Congress

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway”, p.34, Ballantine Books

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• Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".

  Thomas Sowell

  Envy, Justice, Social

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “The Thomas Sowell Reader”, p.399, Basic Books

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• For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.

  Henry Rollins

  Years, Long, Lasts

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• Michael Bay and his team are experts in exciting tentpole-type film and television, and the combination of their film experience plus the great television writers that have come on will be really successful in bringing us something really unique. We are looking to put on these big canvas shows, and Black Sails is going to fit into that. The scripts have been terrific. Everything that we are trying to do is incredibly ambitious, and this is certainly in that category.

  Chris Albrecht

  Team, Successful, Unique

  Source: collider.com

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• I may not be Einstein but I know dumb plus dumb equals you.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Dumb, May, Knows

  Song: Einstein, Album: Stronger, 2011

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• The Internet is perfect for delivering large blocks of text to people throughout the world for free. That's a plus. The downside is the ADD, the Internet-addled Attention Deficit Disorder.

  Lee Klein

  Block, People, Perfect

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• You know how most people think that eggs are great sources of protein? Well, you only get about six grams from an egg, and about half of that is in the yolk and the other half is in the white. If instead you opt for a cup of lentils, you get a whopping eighteen grams of protein, plus all that fiber that makes you feel full and cleans out your body!

  Kathy Freston

  Thinking, Eggs, White

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• There are two things that matter in a criminal investigation of a subject.What did the person do, and when they did that thing, what were they thinking? When you look at the hundred-years-plus of the Justice Department investigation and prosecution of mishandling of classified information, those two questions are obviously present.

  James Comey

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• It was great having them around and I have to say pretty weird seeing them all grown up! Plus we have Jeremy Piven; and Ricky Gervais agreed to be in it and Antonio Banderas has a cameo in and that's a testament to Robert. He's such a good director and such a good guy. He gets everybody, because everyone wants to work with him.

  Joel McHale

  Guy, Want, Directors

  "Tribute talks to Spy Kids star Joel McHale". Interview with Alexandra Heilbron, www.tribute.ca. August 8, 2011.

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• There's always the question of time. Does time at 10:00 mean 10:00 sharp? Or does it mean give or take a few minutes? And a few minutes, is that plus or minus two minutes? Or plus or minus ten, or maybe a half an hour each way?

  Michael Emerson

  Mean, Two, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition.

  Frederick Buechner

  Church, Tradition, Reason

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent magic, right, that you're in a universe, and two plus two equals four.

  Will Smith

  Two, Magic, Four

  Source: www.pbs.org

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