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• Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox knows many things, the hedgehog knows just one thing. So Shakespeare is a typical fox; Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are typical hedgehogs. Now, I'm a typical hedgehog. I know just one thing, and I repeat it over and over again. I try to approach it from different angles to make it look different, but it's the same thing.

  Colin Wilson

  Two, Trying, Typical

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• I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear.

  Siegfried Woldhek

  Names, Ideas, Drawing

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• I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

  Chris Carter

  Thinking, Different, Different Angles

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• In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed. In this world irrationality clings to man like his shadow so that the right things get done for the wrong reasons - afterwards, we dredge up the right reasons for justification. It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral; a world where "reconciliation" means that when one side gets the power and the other side gets reconciled to it.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Angel, Men

  "Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals". Book by Saul Alinsky, p. 13, archive.org. 1971.

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• I'm a bit of a weird creature... I'm self taught and went to a regular film school, not art school, and I think it's unusual for somebody to approach animation from that angle. In a sense I've sometimes consclassered myself more of a filmmaker who just happens to animate.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Art, School, Thinking

  Source: www.notcoming.com

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• once your eyes get opened to pacifism, you can't shut them again. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. You may bitterly regret the fact that you happen to be one of the tiny minority of the human race who have caught this angle of vision, but you can't help it.

  Muriel Lester

  Peace, Regret, Eye

  Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

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• Know your stuff. Have an angle. Know how to grow business, how to develop products, have patents and an undeveloped market that could be huge.

  Mark Cuban

  Stuff, Patents, Grows

  "Shark Tank's Mark Cuban talks making deals and beating the shit out of people". Interview with Kenneth Arthur, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.

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• [Sharron Angle] said, 'I can't win without you getting out of the race.' But I said I couldn't. I'm going to beat Harry Reid.

  Scott Ashjian

  Winning, Race, Beats

  "Ashjian not leaving race". Las Vegas Review-Journal, p. 1B., October 1, 2010.

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• People need to write articles and they need to have angles in them and I'm grateful when people are doing articles, but I always say there's not a great mystery to stand-up comedy.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Grateful, Writing, People

  "Jim Gaffigan Talks to Brian Regan About Hating Being Called a 'Clean' Comedian, Resisting Hollywood, and Playing Big Venues". Interview with Jim Gaffigan, www.vulture.com. September 23, 2015.

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• A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.

  Ice T

  Real, Play, People

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midnight.

  John James Audubon

  Art, Moon, Bird

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• I'm-going-to-tilt-my-head-at-a-perpendicular-angle-and-then-attempt-to-extract-your-soul-through-your-mouth-like-some-giant-alien-sucker-fish

  Burt Lancaster

  Soul, Giants, Tilt

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• I pinned Kurt Angle two weeks ago in that tag match...so...I think I've proven that I can hang with the Olympic Hero.

  Oscar Gutierrez

  Hero, Thinking, Wwe

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• I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Curves, Light

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• We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.

  Amar Bose

  Boston, Years, Symphony

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• I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by those among the characters on whom they will have had any effect. I would like those events, in the account they will make of them, to appear slightly distorted; a kind of interest stems, for the reader, from the simple fact that he should need to restore. The story requires his collaboration in order to properly take shape.

  Andre Gide

  Reading, Character, Simple

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• I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

  John Donne

  Doors, Noise, Whining

  'LXXX Sermons' (1640) 12 December 1626 'At the Funeral of Sir William Cokayne'

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• Are the atoms of the dextroacid (tartaric) grouped in the spirals of a right-hand helix or situated at the angles of an irregular tetrahedron, or arranged in such or such particular unsymmetrical fashion? We are unable to reply to these questions. But there can be no reason for doubting that the grouping of the atoms has an unsymmetrical arrangement with a non-superimposable image. It is not less certain that the atoms of the laevo-acid realize precisely an unsymmetrical arrangement of the inverse of the above.

  Louis Pasteur

  Fashion, Hands, Doubt

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• When there is change, it must not alter the content of what propaganda is driving at, but in the end must always say the same thing. For instance, a slogan must be presented from different angles, but the end of all remarks must always and immutably be the slogan itself. Only in this way can the propaganda have a unified and complete effect.

  Adolf Hitler

  Media, Different, Way

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• San Francisco is one of my favourite cities in the world...I would probably rank it at the top or near the top. It's small but photogenic and has layers...You never have problems finding great angles that people have never done.

  Ang Lee

  Favourite City, Cities, San Francisco

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• There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Beautiful, Struggle, Perfect

  "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.

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• The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Different, Stories, Opera

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• Usually when someone believes in a particular religion, his attitude becomes more and more a sharp angle pointing away from himself. In our way the point of the angle is always toward ourselves.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Attitude, Believe, Way

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.62, Shambhala Publications

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• As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?

  Nicholas Brendon

  Morning, Fun, Hair

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• Steve, it's OK. I know Angle is a dork, but he's a dangerous dork, our dork and your backup dork!

  Vince McMahon

  Wwe, Dangerous, Dork

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