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• There's a truth to the fact that it's hard to be real. It's easy to be indulgent. It's easy to be bubble gum, but it's hard to find a real thing that really makes your soul tick. It's painful and honest. It can be more challenging than just a sad song.

  Mat Kearney

  Song, Real, Challenges

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• One of my favorite guys was Ronnie Lott. I had and have such tremendous respect for him that when I finally got a chance to coach him, I couldn't get enough of uncovering and understanding what made him tick and what made him be who he was.

  Pete Carroll

  Guy, Understanding, Chance

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Before you know it, you're half-way done with your idea and you've accidentally learned how to do it too. In short, you start with little bit of something real and make it tick. Then you make it tock.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Real, Ideas, Done

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• I feel like a good song is one that ticks all the boxes, but a great song is one that has this kind of special quality that just resonates with people.

  Thomston

  Song, People, Special

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• I've always like sort of, as an actor, I'm drawn to exploring how we are as human beings in given situations and how we act and how we react and what makes us tick.

  Ewan McGregor

  Actors, Given, Situation

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• In late 2011 there is an internal document called the Libya Tick Tock that was produced for Hillary Clinton, and it's the chronological description of how she was the central figure in the destruction of the Libyan state, which resulted in around 40,000 deaths within Libya; jihadists moved in, ISIS moved in, leading to the European refugee and migrant crisis.

  Julian Assange

  Isis, Migrants, Clinton

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• If you've had a bad experience with an agent, you have to move past it. You are bound to want a player at some stage who is represented by this guy and you will have to try to work around the personality of the agent. You tend to work out what makes them tick, what they respond to. You have to have tactical plans to get a deal over the line.

  Alan Pardew

  Moving, Player, Past

  Source: www.espnfc.com

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• I think [H. P. Lovecraft] knew the whole gamut. He just didn't believe any of it! He probably liked to use the esoteric stuff because he knew it would tick people off and freak them out.

  Paul Laffoley

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I think every single one of us can think back on the key individuals in our lives who really made a difference, and also maybe some of those who sent us astray. There are those are the teachers who are brave enough to buck the system, and obviously not in such a way that jeopardizes their jobs, but brave enough to say, "I know I have to accomplish that, but I want to know how I'm going to help this child get there differently. I want to know what makes this child tick, and I want to help him get there from a place of curiosity, rather than from a place where I impose my ideas on him."

  Emma Walton Hamilton

  Teacher, Jobs, Children

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• We're used to institutional-maintenance Catholicism, in which the institution ticks along by its own inertia and people are "born" into the Church. Francis knows that is over and done with: "Kept" Catholicism, whether "kept" by legal establishment or by cultural habit, has no future.

  George Weigel

  People, Church, Maintenance

  Source: eppc.org

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• What ticks you off enough to get involved in efforts to better the lot of women? What motivates you to action?

  Gloria Feldt

  Effort, Action, Enough

  Gloria Feldt (2012). “No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power”, p.277, Seal Press

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• I listen to the tick of an unseen clock marking moments of time long passed.

  James Frey

  Long, Unseen, Moments

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.261, Anchor

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• Those who grieve frequently find themselves alone. Missed is the laughter of children, the commotion of teenagers, and the tender, loving concern of a departed companion. The clock ticks more loudly, time passes more slowly, and four walls can indeed a prison make. I extol those who, with loving care and compassionate concern, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and house the homeless. He who notes the sparrow's fall will not be unmindful of such service.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Laughter, Children, Wall

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• So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out.

  Cat Stevens

  Knows, Seconds, Left

  Song: On The Road To Find Out, Album: Tea for the Tillerman

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• With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox, It enters the dark hole of the head. The window is starless still; the clock ticks, The page is printed.

  Ted Hughes

  Dark, Hot, Pages

  "The Thought-Fox" l. 21 (1957)

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• An international team of psychiatrists has flown to Redmond, WA in an attempt to discover exactly what makes Bill Gates tick. And, more especially, what makes him go cuckoo every half hour.

  David Pogue

  Team, Half, Bills

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• Other than the bombs they strap to their chests, Ive got no idea what makes the Palestinians tick.

  Dennis Miller

  Ideas, Bombs, Palestinian

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• You panic button collector. You clock of beautiful ticks. You run out the door if you need to. You flock to the front row of your own class. You feather everything until you know you can always, always shake like a leaf on my family tree and know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay. Everything you feel is okay.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Running

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• It's so silly isn't it? how we grown men take up trout angling not simply to pursue trout but to find some place, some special place, where we feel at ease. a place to belong. Forces, not forms, persist: energy is spent and endures; time does not tick, it flows. God loves a man that smells of trout water and mountain meadows. Which way's heaven, you suppose? Follow the trail and keep close to the stream.

  Carey Mulligan

  Silly, Men, Sea

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• At last an authentic voice from Saudi Arabia. Al-Mohaimeed has written a remarkable, rhythmic, genuine novel. Wolves of the Crescent Moon throbs with sensuality and moral courage, as if it didn't take place in a society that denies the tick of the heart.

  Hanan al-Shaykh

  Heart, Moon, Voice

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• The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.

  Riz Ahmed

  People, Trying, Acting

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• Id love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

  Candy Crowley

  Guy, Want

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• The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.

  Gordon MacQuarrie

  Failure, Men, Fishing

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• It ticks me no end when people get ticked off at those of us who comment audibly and in print on events and problems. That's what we're paid for. Why clutter up your mind with a bunch of facts that might inhibit the solve-ability of us who must express an opinion? After all, all the world cries out for a solution to its problems, and we supply them right and left. Come to think of it, it's we who should be giving our deplorers and detractors the blast; because 99% of the time they don't do as we say.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Time has an undertaking establishment on every block and drives his coffin nails faster than the steam riveters rivet or the stenographers type or the tickers tick out fours and eights and dollar signs and ciphers.

  John Dos Passos

  Death, Time, Block

  John Dos Passos (1934). “Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights”

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