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• I started drawing in first grade. Because the kid next to me was drawing, and I remember thinking: I want to be able to do that!

  Dan Povenmire

  Kids, Thinking, Drawing

  Source: www.slate.com

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• It's good for my fans to be able to connect with me as a person because I am a very normal 15-, 16-year-old girl. I still get in trouble. I still have boy problems and friend problems so it's just very good for my fans to see that.

  Cheyenne Kimball

  Girl, Boys, Years

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I would like to have insights into things like government, all those big ideas that you brought up that I simply don't have ideas about. I would like to be able to since so many people discuss them, but I don't want to work at them. I don't think my ambition is that strong in that direction.

  Jasper Johns

  Strong, Ambition, Thinking

  "New Again: Jasper Johns". Interview with Philip Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2015.

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• When you cast somebody you cast them not only for... I look for an inherent kind of quality. You are going to be shooting 14 hour days and you are going to be tired. You are going to not necessarily be able to conjure armor or a façade every single moment.

  David Fincher

  Single Mom, Tired, Quality

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 19, 2011.

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• I don't think anybody's had the confidence that we'd ever be able to make a dent in homelessness. We've just come to accept that we manage homelessness, that we try to make it less bad, but we never make it better.

  John Carlos Frey

  Thinking, Trying, Homelessness

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed filmmakers who wouldn't listen to the executive-suited wisdom, and they believed in me from director to actor. Not from salesman to commodity.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Strong, Jobs, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

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• I'm not going to freeze my body. One life is enough for me. Some people take this gamble. That someone will be able to bring them back in the future. I'm not going to do it.

  Dolph Lundgren

  People, Body, Life Is

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to move outside of the space would be hard. Not being able to walk around - the stillness of my body, physically - that would be the challenge.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Moving, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Very devoted religious people are so extroverted, but at the same time, they're so repressed sexually and so conservative. I've never been able to understand that combination, but I'm fascinated by it.

  Jenny Hval

  Religious, People, Conservative

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Working on my own vocals is something I've been avoiding. But, I'm constantly thinking of ways to be able to include my own vocals without getting embarrassed. Even John Lennon wasn't comfortable on hearing his voice.

  Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

  Thinking, Voice, Way

  Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.

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• I was always pretty organized in high school and my mother, she always pushed me to just overachieve, both my parents. (They) let me know education is key and without it nowadays, you probably wouldn't be able to get a good job or have a decent living.

  Jeremih

  Mother, Jobs, School

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Unless you dream, nothing will happen. If you dream, you might be able to make your dreams come true.

  Richard Branson

  Dream, Might, Happens

  "CEO Interview: Richard Branson on space travel". Interview with Susan Montoya Bryan, newsok.com. November 23, 2010.

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• The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with democracy.

  Thomas Paine

  Character, Rose, Democracy

  Thomas Paine (1835). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.87

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• I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.

  R. A. Lafferty

  Writing, Ideas, Phrases

  "The Alien Critic" Journal, August 1973.

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• It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Moving, Mean, Appreciate

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• It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications for political stations. But the Scriptures teach a different doctrine. They direct that rulers should be men who rule in the fear of God, able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness. But if we had no divine instruction on the subject, our own interest would demand of us a strict observance of the principle of these injunctions. . . .

  Noah Webster

  Hate, Men, Views

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• I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to heaven, no one will be able to say, I merited this.

  Dallas Willard

  Believe, Heaven, Humans

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• Gamers should be able to take the experience with them in their living rooms, on the go, when they travel - wherever they are and whenever they want to play. It should be the same software and the same experience.

  Hideo Kojima

  Play, Want, Rooms

  "Hideo Kojima Predicts Console-Less Gaming Future" by Jim Reilly, www.ign.com. April 7, 2010.

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• Players will be able to adjust the volume from 1 to 100 in increments of 1. You could play the game 100 times and have an entirely different experience.

  Peter Molyneux

  Player, Games, Different Experiences

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• There is an appearance of humility in the protestation that the truth is much greater than any one of us can grasp, but if this is used to invalidate all claims to discern the truth it is in fact an arrogant claim to a kind of knowledge which is superior to [all others]...We have to ask: 'What is the [absolute] vantage ground from which you claim to be able to relativize all the absolute claims these different scriptures make?

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Humility, Arrogant, Scripture

  Lesslie Newbigin (2013). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic”, p.225, SPCK

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• Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.

  Beth Gibbons

  Art, Insecurity, Suffering

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• Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it.

  Margrethe II of Denmark

  Giving, Important, Lucky

  "Exclusive - Bones and Landscapes Inspire Danish Queen's Art". Interview with John Acher, www.reuters.com. January 26, 2012.

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• The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has led human thought to independence, and has lost its significance, therefore, to a yet undetermined extent.... It seems to me that we might still make use in some way of its form of thought, and especially of its great wisdom of life, which for two thousand years has proven to be particularly efficacious.

  Carl Jung

  Christian, Years, Two

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• To you, being rich might mean owning a goat farm in South Carolina. For your best friend, it might mean being able to start her own business selling wine over the Internet. Whatever the case, youre probably not motivated by the money itself, but by what the money could let you be and do.

  J.D. Roth

  Mean, Wine, South Carolina

  J. D. Roth (2010). “Your Money: The Missing Manual”, p.24, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Certain countries long ago succeeded where the U.S. has failed in commercializing their air traffic control systems, putting them in the hands of private or quasi-private operators able to raise capital, charge fees, and invest in growth, free of meddling by congressional pork barons. You want a drone-friendly air traffic control system? This is the place to start. Our FAA isn't blindly anti-drone but simply marooned in a system that still needs thousands of eyeballs gazing at radar terminals and out of cockpit windshields.

  Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

  Country, Air, Long Ago

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