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• I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Writing, People, Feelings

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• Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Creativity, Artist, Musician

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• I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

  Maura Tierney

  Thinking, People, Should

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

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• Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere and he has a tendency to say them at exactly the time when they most undermine the conservative agenda.

  Jim Talent

  Interesting, Insightful, Agendas

  "Romney Fires Back At Gingrich". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 8, 2011.

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• There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Dumb, Trying, Down And

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't have sociopathic tendencies!

  Emily VanCamp

  "Revenge is Beautiful! Emily VanCamp Talks Boys and (Easy) Beauty". Interview with Holly Siegel, www.glamour.com. January 4, 2012.

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• They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Attachment

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• I understand your higher and lower tendencies. There is something beyond all of this nonsense. There is a wonderful glitter that you can follow in life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Glitter

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• On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough.

  Anthony Powell

  Life, Everyday, Farce

  Anthony Powell (2010). “A Question of Upbringing: Book 1 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.51, University of Chicago Press

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• My tendency is to be very experimental.

  Sean Lennon

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they would be in a man's world and have to deal with that, and it creates a lot of interesting storylines. For me, it's kind of circumstantial, but I definitely enjoy it.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Writing, Character, Men

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 21, 2010.

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• I wouldn't tell anyone to study werewolves - I studied wolves, how they moved, their tendencies and sensibilities.

  Joe Manganiello

  Study, Werewolf, Moved

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• When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Military, War, Thinking

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Linda M. Pavonetti, www.scholastic.com.

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• I learned how to be a learner. When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give direction to others. I'm in this job because I'm better and smarter.' I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Jobs, Views, Keys

  "Mulcahy traces steps of Xerox's comeback". Interview with Kevin Maney, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 21, 2006.

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• There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong.

  Peter Welch

  Motivation, People, Giving

  "Peter Welch rises as liberal voice of reason". www.politico.com.

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• I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

  Ricky Williams

  Thinking, Looks

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• Problems are hidden opportunities and constraints can actually boost creativity. If you have some crazy ideas in your mind, and that people tell you that it's impossible to make, well, that's an even better reason to want to do it, because people have a tendency to see the problems rather than the final result, whereas if you start to deal with problems as being your allies rather than your opponents, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing way.

  Martin Villeneuve

  Crazy, Creativity, Opportunity

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• Everybody talks about the entitlement generation. There is no time I'd rather live in than now, and there is no generation I would more entrust the future of this country to than this one. There is a tendency to live in a nostalgic state in this country, and to think that other generations possessed an integrity and a tenacity greater than the generation that is now. I wholeheartedly disagree with that. I believe that this is a group that will rise up to any challenge that comes before them as well as any other generation in America would have done.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Integrity, Believe

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• The other matter to which we beg leave to refer in candor has been the anxiety shown for the Constitution and civil liber­ties because of alleged dictatorial, impatient and vindictive tendencies on our part. This concern is without basis in fact.

  Diosdado Macapagal

  Ties, Anxiety, Matter

  Diosdado Macapagal (1964). “New Hope for the Common Man: Speeches and Statements of President Diosado Macapagal”

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• I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Trying, Prove

  "'Divergent' Author Veronica Roth Turns Goodness Into Dystopia" by Sabrina Weiss, www.mtv.com. May 03, 2011.

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• I've found that if I tell somebody 'Eat this and don't do that,' it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive because even more than being healthy, we want to feel free and in control, and as soon as somebody tells us to do something, there's a tendency to do just the opposite.

  Dean Ornish

  Opposites, Healthy, Want

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• There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Reality, Long

  "Al Gore's views on climate change, extreme weather and Keystone XL" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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• When you have a better image of yourself physically, you have a tendency to live your life in a more positive way.

  Jeff Olson

  Live Your Life, Way

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• The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.

  Criss Jami

  Stress, Heart, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.103, Criss Jami

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• Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty interests, its inbreeding tendencies, its stifling atmosphere, its corroding influence. Once become

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Atmosphere, World, Inbreeding

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