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• If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.

  Morgan Freeman

  Acting, Causes, Talent

  "Morgan Freeman Talks ISLAND OF LEMURS: MADAGASCAR, His Narration Process, Science, LIFE ITSELF, and More". collider.com. April 1, 2014.

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• I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know what to do because you're an actor, but I haven't a clue.

  Claire Foy

  Hate, Actors, Embarrassing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you're a celebrity, people think they know you, but they don't have a clue.

  Willie Aames

  Thinking, People, Knows

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

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• I've seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Country, Zero, Mexican

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• I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there's someone you don't hear from, it's the person you want to hear from the most.

  Janet Jackson

  Want, Sometimes, Persons

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• When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

  Haniel Long

  Humanity, Loyal, Persons

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• Facebook? I have no clue about it. MySpace, none of that. I'm the worst.

  Maggie Q

  Worst

  "Comic-Con: TV's 6 Most Wanted Women". Interview with Lacey Rose and Borys Kit, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 19, 2011.

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• I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Feelings, Problem, Clear

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.80, Vintage

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• I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about. It just happens. It's like falling in love. You can't explain why you fall in love or explain why it's this particular person.

  Elaine Stritch

  Falling In Love, Love You, Chemistry

  "Elaine Stritch Talks the 30 Rock Mother's Day Episode". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. May 6, 2010.

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• Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.

  John Updike

  Cds, Play, Giving

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• sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Ideas, Needs, Sometimes

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• Are there Martians out there? I haven't got a clue. Is there life out there? I have no idea.

  Gordon Strachan

  Ideas, Martians, Havens

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• We don't have a clue what's really going down, we just kid ourselves that we're in control of our lives while a paper's thickness away things that would drive us mad if we thought about them for too long play with us, and move us around from room to room, and put us away at night when they're tired, or bored.

  Neil Gaiman

  Moving, Tired, Kids

  "The Sandman" by Neil Gaiman, (Sandman #16: "Lost Hearts"), January 1989 - November 2015.

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• I don't think I'm gonna die tomorrow or even two weeks from now, or even ever. I just don't know - who the hell knows what's gonna happen to them? Nobody! Isn't that comforting? Nobody has a clue. I like that we don't know. And I like that it's somebody else's decision, not mine.

  Elaine Stritch

  Thinking, Two, Decision

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• We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields which overlap into androgyny or different kinds of sexual desires. But because we live in a Western, patriarchal world, we have very little chance of exploring these gender possibilities.

  Kathy Acker

  Desire, Males, Female

  "Eve Experts". Real World Multimedia, realworldmultimedia.com, 2004.

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• Long ago, I realized that success leaves clues, and that people who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results. I believed that if I precisely duplicated the actions of others, I could reproduce the same quality of results that they had.

  Tony Robbins

  Long Ago, People, Quality

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.

  Marcel Proust

  Knowledge, Desire, Tiny

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.236, Wordsworth Editions

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• C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into which any random function may write random values without having a clue where they point, has not been debunked as the sheer idiocy it really is.

  Erik Naggum

  Meaningful, Memories, Writing

  Re: Allegro CL foreign function interface (Usenet article), groups.google.com. June 14, 2000.

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• God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing.And that is what God was doing at the Cloisters and with Eudora Welty. He was foreshadowing. He was laying traps, leaving clues, clues I could have seen had I been perceptive enough.

  Lauren F. Winner

  Leaving, Novelists, Use

  Lauren F. Winner (2002). “Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life”, p.58, Algonquin Books

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• My real bottom-line hypothesis is that nobody has a sweet clue what they’re doing. Therefore you better be trying stuff at an insanely rapid pace. You want to be screwing around with nearly everything. Relentless experimentation was probably important in the 1970s-now it’s do or die.

  Tom Peters

  Sweet, Real, Important

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• Rule Number One is this: If you’re open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if you’re defensive, if you stubbornly persist in being right instead of learning the lesson at hand, if you stop paying attention to the tickles, the nudges, the clues—boom! Sledgehammer.

  Gay Hendricks

  Life Lesson, Hands, Numbers

  Gay Hendricks, Tinker Lindsay (2012). “The First Rule of Ten: A Tenzing Norbu Mystery”, p.7, Hay House, Inc

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• And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Musician, London, Royal

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• It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. Now 30 years on The Body Shop is a multi local business with over 2.045 stores serving over 77 million customers in 51 different markets in 25 different languages and across 12 time zones. And I haven't a clue how we got here!

  Anita Roddick

  Years, Time Zones, Creating

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• Seekers are offered clues all the time from the world of spirit. Ordinary people call these clues coincidences

  Deepak Chopra

  People, Ordinary, World

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Way Of The Wizard: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life”, p.116, Random House

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• Head coach of the England team demands management skills that Brian does not have. We had a head coach who wanted one thing, other coaches who wanted other things. The players hadn't a clue what was going on. Somehow we'd managed to turn our World Cup campaign into a Monty Python sketch - called The Life of Brian.

  Lawrence Dallaglio

  Team, Player, Python

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