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• We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Melting, Want, Tradition

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• The problem with film is you never know when you're going to be able to make a film so you can't have people waiting around for you. Sometimes it's fun to work with the same people and work with new people and mix it up.

  Tim Burton

  Fun, Waiting Around, People

  Interview with Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2000.

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• Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better place, where everyday people, from poor people who were white and red and yellow and black and brown, would be able to live lives in decency and dignity.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Live Life, Yellow

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• That's the ultimate thing I want to do in making music - to be able to inspire somebody else.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Inspire, Want, Music Is

  Interview with Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That's the art for me.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Art, Together, Ends

  Interview with Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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• To be born with a unique instinct, will demand 'unique duties'. If you didn't think about being an artist before 7 years of age you probably don't have it and you will be able to paint what you want to paint.

  David Luiz

  Thinking, Artist, Unique

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• So how do people listen to music? How do the broad masses listen to it? Apparently they have to be able to cling to pictures and 'moods' of some kind. If they can't imagine a green field, a blue sky or something of the sort, then they are out of their depth.

  Anton Webern

  Blue, Sky, Green Fields

  Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

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• I think the real test is to plan something and be able to carry it out to the very end. Not that you're always enthusiastic; it's just that you have to get this thing out. It's not done with one's emotions; it's done with the head.

  Richard Estes

  Real, Thinking, Done

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• One of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

  David Rakoff

  Mind, Reaching, States

  "I'm Dying to Meet You in the Next Life" by Dwight Eschliman, www.gq.com. August 13, 2012.

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• People can certainly be creative when they're under the gun, but only when they're able to focus on the work.

  Teresa Amabile

  Gun, People, Focus

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• A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.

  Lawrence LeShan

  Men, Degrees, Concentration

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• Speaking of line, what artist of line was ever able to find more depth and volume than Hirschfeld? He was an illustrator and a caricaturist, but first and foremost, an artist.

  Billy Cannon

  Artist, Depth, Lines

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• Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'

  Chris Hayes

  Oligarchy, Way, Allies

  Chris Hayes (2012). “Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy”, p.57, Crown

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• If we were able to rewrite the script for the reputation of Christianity, I think we would put the emphasis on developing relationships with non-believers, serving them, loving them, and making them feel accepted, only then would we earn the right to share the gospel.

  Andy Stanley

  Thinking, Scripts, Reputation

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• When we get to the point where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live in fear that he'll be shunned by teammates or outed by tabloids, when we get to the point where he plays while his significant other waits in the family room, when we get to the point where he's not compelled to hide his true self and is able to live an authentic life, then coming out won't be such a big deal. But we're not there yet.

  Jason Collins

  Athlete, Gay, Self

  "Parting shot: Jason Collins announces NBA retirement in his own words" by Jason Collins, www.si.com. November 19, 2014.

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• Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.

  Jack Germond

  Daughter, College, Thinking

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• I am happy when I am on stage. I like that wave of blue. I like the eardrum splitting sounds of loud screams. I like to be able to breathe along with the members. Each and every stage is a good reminiscence and a happy memory

  Leeteuk

  Memories, Blue, Sound

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• This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.

  Heather Armstrong

  Children, Kids, Motherhood

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• In Matthew 16:19, Jesus said that He would give us the keys to the Kingdom. Faith is the major key that opens every door in the Kingdom. It is a master key. Therefore it is imperative that we understand the ways of faith. Because these keys are the ways of God the natural man cannot receive them. They are spiritually understood. They are foolishness to the natural man. When a gift of the Spirit operates. Then we are able to impart that gift to others and teach them how to function in it also.

  Phil Pringle

  Jesus, Men, Gifts Of The Spirit

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• I'll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people's worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning.

  Jehane Noujaim

  Love Is, People, Goal

  "DVD RE-RUN: Jehane Noujaim On 'Control Room': 'My Loyalties Are to the Characters'". Interview with Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. October 25, 2004.

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• Being a famous singer or an international singer - that's my dream, too, but my main goal is to be a real student and be able to graduate and be a lawyer and have my own business.

  Charice Pempengco

  Dream, Real, Goal

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• To be a religions man and to pray are really one and the same thing. To join in the thought of God with every thought of any importance that occurs to us ; in all our admiration of external nature, to regard it as the work of His wisdom ; to take counsel with God about all our plans, that we may be able to carry them out in His name ; and even in our most mirthful hours to remember His all-seeing eye ; this is the prayer without ceasing to which we are called, and which is really the essence of true religion.

  Friedrich Schleiermacher

  Prayer, Eye, Men

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• I have never been able to entertain a God-idea which was not integrally related to the fact of chipmunks, squirrels, hippopotamuses, galaxies, and light years.

  Joseph Sittler

  Squirrels, Light, Years

  Joseph Sittler, Steven Bouma-Prediger, Peter W. Bakken (2000). “Evocations of Grace: The Writings of Joseph Sittler on Ecology, Theology, and Ethics”, p.77, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• As you become more rooted inside -- as you drink from this silent stream of life that runs beneath the surface of everything -- as you live from that depth of your own being more and more, then you’ll be able to rise taller and stronger in this world; more than you may have ever thought possible.

  Derek Rydall

  Running, Stronger, Depth

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• You'll be surprised what someone is able to handle given no other choice.

  Tarryn Fisher

  Choices, Given, Handle

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