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• I thought it would be an enormous amount of fun to make a movie that heads out into space, which is something that we had never done before.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Fun, Space, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• I keep social with everyone because I want to know what's going on at every level. At the same time, if I'm not alone a certain amount of time per day then I'll go nuts, because I can't write and I can't think. I can't deal with people all the time. I like being alone. I'm a bit of a cat lady in that way.

  Courtney Love

  Cat, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. May 1, 2014.

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• Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system.

  Christiana Figueres

  Environmental, Energy, Climate

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• The space that we're looking through is nine-dimensional. If you build a mathematical model, the amount of searching that we've done in 50 years is equivalent to scooping one 8-ounce glass out of the Earth's ocean, looking and seeing if you caught a fish. No, no fish in that glass? Well, I don't think you're going to conclude that there are no fish in the ocean. You just haven't searched very well yet. That's where we are.

  Jill Tarter

  Ocean, Thinking, Years

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• The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game.

  E. W. Howe

  Gambling, Games

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• Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Book, Reading, Indulge In

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• I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.

  William Kempe

  Order, People, Collaboration

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• I travel a fair amount, read on the plane, and I read fast.

  Emily Oster

  Planes, Fairs

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• It is hard to convince people of this, but oatmeal truly is miraculous. It gives you an amazing amount of energy, like cocaine.

  Kelly Williams Brown

  Oatmeal, People, Giving

  Kelly Williams Brown (2013). “Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, for example was no less and no more than the amoount of politeness and consideration necessary to ensure that the cramped journey was as pleasant as possible afterwards. What is necessary? That was the unspoken but implied, and unavoidable question everywhere in India.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Journey, Violence, India

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• Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective.

  Criss Jami

  People, Adjectives, Genius

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.31, Criss Jami

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• If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.

  Karisma Kapoor

  Creative, Different, Cinema

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• I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.

  David Pogue

  Ridiculous, Refining

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• Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.

  James A. Garfield

  Men, Issues, Emergencies

  "The Diary of James A. Garfield: 1875-1877". Book by James Abram Garfield, 1983.

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• The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Clever, Research, Disease

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Spending, Art History

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• A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.

  Karl Marx

  Greatness, Relative Value, Substance

  Karl Marx (1913). “Value, Price and Profit”

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• The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.

  Karl Marx

  Ends, Motive, Aim

  Karl Marx (2012). “Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.178, Regnery Publishing

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• There are a lot of things that you can like at a distance without spending a huge amount of time pondering. It's not so complicated.

  Elvis Costello

  Distance, Complicated, Spending

  "Elvis Costello: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.

  Will Arnett

  Roles, Dramatic, Wanted

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Country, Mean, Russia

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No one runs fast without an extreme amount of training. Like today, you see kids walking around dribbling a basketball. I had a bag with track shoes in it, and I used to go to the track every day.

  Edwin Moses

  Basketball, Running, Kids

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• I just want to say that, all you do, no matter how bad your diet is, for the first six months or year, I just reduce the amount, even if it's horrible stuff. That you can deal with it.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Years, Six Months, Want

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Working with my father [Stephen Hawking ] is a great thrill - he has the amazing ability to hold enormous amounts of information in his head.

  Stephen Hawking

  Father, Thrill, Information

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2007.

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• Even the relatively small amount of trans fats are likely to be causing around 7,000 premature deaths from heart disease per year.

  Walter Willett

  Heart, Years, Disease

  Source: www.pbs.org

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