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• Those closest to me will determine the level of my success.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Levels, Determine

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• I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.

  Charles Barron

  White, Racism, Black

  "Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card: And Lose". Book by Larry Elder, www.amazon.ca. 2008.

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• Now every girl is expected to have: Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy, the arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits. The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes.

  Tina Fey

  Girl, Sarcastic, Athlete

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Garden, Thinking, Religion

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• The decisions you make about your work life are especially important, since most people spend more of their waking lives working than doing anything else. Your choices will affect, not only yourself and those closest to you, but in some way the whole world.

  Laurence Boldt

  Decisions You Make, Careers, People

  Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.218, Penguin

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• The closest thing I use to beauty products is the grease on the pizza from John's Pizzeria.

  Mark Feuerstein

  Grease, Use, Beauty Products

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

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• In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth — is in the form of fiction.

  Laila Lalami

  Thinking, Fiction, Way

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• Friends, companions, lovers, are those who treat us in terms of our unlimited worth to ourselves. They are closest to us who best understand what life means to us, who feel for us as we feel for ourselves, who are bound to us in triumph and disaster, who break the spell of our loneliness.

  Henry Alonso Myers

  Friendship, Loneliness, Mean

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• My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.

  Barack Obama

  Family, Marriage, Husband

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• A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.

  Wes Bentley

  Real, Reflection, Enough

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• I don't think I've ever written anything even remotely naturalistic. The closest probably would be seen as 'Frankie and Johnny,' and that's only 'cause they eat a sandwich and make an omelet in act two. But it's a romantic fairy tale, and I'm very aware of that. I don't think it helps the actors in my plays to lose themselves in the reality of talking to another person. A good McNally actor always knows he's in a play with an audience.

  Terrence McNally

  Reality, Thinking, Talking

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• The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known to medical science is work.

  Thomas Szasz

  Work, Medical Science, Antibiotics

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what’s missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that’s why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.

  Oren Peli

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "'Paranormal Activity's' Oren Peli on Scares, Spielberg and 'The River's' Pricey Pilot (Q&A)". Interview with Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 6, 2012.

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• Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.2635, Book House

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• When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree. When my mother explained it, I kept after her: What are you saying? What do you mean? I couldn't believe it. It was astonishing. It was like--here's the man who makes all the trees. Then I wanted to be a writer, because, I suppose, it seemed the closest thing to being God.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Mother, Believe, Book

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• An illustrator in my own mind - and this is not a truth of any kind - is someone who so falls in love with writing that he wishes he had written it, and the closest he can get to is illustrating it. And the next thing you learn, you have to find something unique in this book, which perhaps even the author was not entirely aware of. And that's what you hold on to, and that's what you add to the pictures: a whole Other Story that you believe in, that you think is there.

  Maurice Sendak

  Falling In Love, Believe, Book

  "Sendak on Sendak". Interview at Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia, 2007/2008.

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• Congratulations to the Italian people for winning the World Cup. ... They won after France's best player got ejected for head butting. That's the closest anyone in a French uniform has come to combat in 60 years.

  Jay Leno

  Congratulations, Italian, Winning

  "The Tonight Show", July 11, 2006.

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• So many I considered, closest to me,turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully,although that knife was chipping away at me,they turned their eyes away and went home to sleep.

  Mariah Carey

  Home, Sleep, Eye

  Song: Petals, Album: Rainbow, 1999

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• Close friendships are one of life's miracles - that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sweetness, and they still love you. Not only still love you, but love you more and more deeply. I would do anything for my closest friends, and they would do almost anything for me, and that is about as spiritual a truth as you can get.

  Anne Lamott

  Friendship, Spiritual, Love You

  "Interview with Anne Lamott, Author of Help, Thanks, Wow". Interview with Jana Llewellyn, www.friendsjournal.org. January 30, 2013.

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• Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just watch Titanic , you experience it from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot never-before seen documentary footage specifically for this movie.

  James Berardinelli

  Ocean, Epic, Journey

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• Although my view is a world-wide one and my area of observation is Europe, the nation closest to my heart is, understandably, my homeland. And it is a fortunate coincidence, fortunate in terms of the explanation of the world, that it is this country which is the clearest example of the playground of destructive development in the whole world.

  Pentti Linkola

  Country, Heart, Views

  "Can Life Prevail?: A Radical Approach to the Environmental Crisis". Book by Pentti Linkola, 2004.

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• My limited experience of such things told me that you get closest to the truth by not giving it advance warning that you're coming after it.

  Michael Marshall Smith

  Giving, Warning

  "The Lonely Dead". Book by Michael Marshall Smith, 2004.

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• I tend to be a loner – I think a lot of social theorists are like that. On one level, the majority of the most important people to me are people who I have imaginary conversations with in the deep of the night: I'm often in conversation with Max Weber or Karl Marx or someone like that. Those are the people I'm closest to and that have had the most influence on me!

  George Ritzer

  Night, Thinking, People

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• The holy grail for a music fan is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by us whatsoever. Or, even better, from lots of different planets. The closest we got to that was before the Internet, when people didn't know of each other's existence. Now, that doesn't really happen.

  Aphex Twin

  People, Holy Grail, Fans

  "Strange Visitor: A Conversation With Aphex Twin" by Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com. 2014.

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• We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of us come to profiting from it are a few miserable shares of stock in a company that doesn't pay large enough dividends to keep a small mouse in cheese. The truth is, most of us are job serfs. At a time when invested capital returns 20 to 30 percent, we have no capital. We only have our wages and salaries, and a debt so high that something like 20c on every dollar we earn is spent to pay off what we owe.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Wisdom, Jobs, War

  Nicholas Von Hoffman (1970). “Left at the post”, Crown

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