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• Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.

  Lynda Obst

  Change, Art, Personality

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• My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

  Peter Straub

  Success, Real, Government

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• I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work

  Harold Brodkey

  New York, Crazy, Done

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• It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

  Roger Wicker

  Government, Research, Medical

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• In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Thinking, Understanding, Important

  Foresight Institute Interview, www.foresight.org. June 15, 1987.

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• Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation.

  George Brown, Jr.

  Opportunity, Generations, Next

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• The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.

  Faith Hill

  Song, Kissing, Albums

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• My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.

  Terry Brooks

  Adventure, Europe, Names

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• The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  World, Technological, Beneficial

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• We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy?

  Robert Lanza

  Change, Waiting, Mind

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• Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.

  Mort Kondracke

  New Day, Drug, Stories

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• To me the biggest breakthrough was when we did Terminator 2 that just opened the door for Jurassic and all of the others and that was as big as when we did motion control on Star Wars. But I don't see another big thing coming.

  Dennis Muren

  Stars, War, Doors

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• I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Book, Good Luck, Way

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• I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album... so I took it as a sign to leave.

  Graham Coxon

  Daughter, Mother, Drinking

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• I believe it is possible that we can turn today's breakdown into a planetary breakthrough on one condition. We can do it if we can break free of a set of dominant but misleading ideas that are taking us down.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Believe, Ideas, Today

  Frances Moore Lappé (2011). “EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want”, p.2, Nation Books

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• But so long as we can keep this crew of fantastic people together and can continue to make real breakthrough films in this category, as well as characters that stay true to what we've done in this first film, I'd be more than happy to be a part of it.

  Brandon Routh

  Real, Character, Long

  "Superman Returns - Brandon Routh interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.

  Thomas Cech

  Biology, Phenomenon, Connected

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". Interview with Holger Breithaupt, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

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• While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.

  Mike Pence

  Cloning, Amendments, Questionable

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!

  Jim Valvano

  Cancer, Fighting, Thinking

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

  Bill Frist

  Country, Technology, Doctors

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• Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

  Abdallah II

  Opportunity, Reality, Numbers

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• Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

  Naveen Jain

  Block, Winning, Break Through

  "10 Secrets to Entrepreneurial Success" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2011.

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• The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

  Bill Gates

  Numbers, Would Be, Development

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Death, Men, Cities

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• Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem crazy at first: PCs, the internet, Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, 140 characters.. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, ‘I don’t get it, I don’t understand it. I think it’s too weird, I think it’s too unusual.’

  Marc Andreessen

  Crazy, Character, Technology

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