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• As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal with human beings with whom I've come in contact and have had a chance to closely observe. Their upper-classness is not a matter of particular fascination for me.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Class, Together, Fascination

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• I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a journalist.

  Hark-Joon Lee

  Thinking, Risk, Ambitious

  "This journalist didn’t just interview North Korean defectors, he followed them on their escape". Interview with Anna Fifield, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2015.

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• If you thought when you got your job at 20 that it would never change you were misinformed. Retrain yourself to be curious.

  Eric Schmidt

  Jobs, Never Change, Ifs

  "Google's Big Tent event: porn, copyright, Eric Schmidt and all". www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2012.

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• When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly person, Benjamin Button was, in the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel and in the film starring Brad Pitt, he dies as a newborn child. Michael Jackson's childhood was one of enormous, prodigious production.He was a child prodigy, he was a wunderkind.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Children, Writing, Elderly

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You could have a Ph.D. or be a lawyer, but as soon as you say something, you may be diminished in the eyes of someone else.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Eye, Anxiety, Mouths

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• Editors are licensed to be curious.

  William Zinsser

  Editors

  William Zinsser (2005). “Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past”, p.130, Da Capo Press

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• When I was very young I was very shy but at the same time I was very open cause I was very curious so I wanted to try many things.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Trying, Shy, Causes

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• The agnostic has a very curious notion of religion. He is convinced that a man who says 'I believe in God' should at once become perfect; if this does not happen, then the believer must be a fraud and a hypocrite. He thinks that adherence to a religion is the end of the road, whereas it is in fact only the beginning of a very long and sometimes very rough road. He looks for consistency in religious people, however aware he may be of inconsistencies in himself

  Charles le Gai Eaton

  Religious, Believe, Hypocrite

  Gai Eaton (1985). “Islam and the Destiny of Man”, p.58, SUNY Press

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• When football stars disappear, so do the teams, and that is a very curious phenomenon. It is like in the theatre, in a play, where there is a great star. If the star is not well, the whole cast suffers.

  Pele

  Soccer, Football, Stars

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• I'm always curious, but I'm learning things I never thought I'd learn. I get to travel to places I never thought I'd go.

  Laura Linney

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 29, 2007.

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• My entire career is contemporary based, not by choice, but just by character. So, all the movies I've done, except for one in 40 years, are contemporary. But I never did an effects movie. So, I'm also a producer and I was really curious about how this whole thing went together.

  Michael Douglas

  Character, Years, Careers

  "Ant-Man - Michael Douglas interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• We don't always possess faith in the sense of having a clear embodiment of something to hang on to. The relationship between the intellect and faith is a very curious one. Sometimes the intellect can point us to faith, sometimes the intellect can stand in the way of faith. Sometimes, as St John of the Cross points out, we have to darken or blind the intellect in order to have faith.

  Kevin Hart

  Order, Have Faith, Embodiment

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• Teenagers are extremely funny, and extremely clever and intellectually curious. But they're also willing to ask questions about the meaning of life without disguising them around irony, and ask questions about what are our responsibilities to other people without having to couch it in irony.

  John Green

  Clever, Teenager, Responsibility

  "Q&A: John Green & Nat Wolff on ‘Paper Towns’ Themes, Inside Jokes, Nicknames". Interview with Seth Kelley, variety.com. July 19, 2015.

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• It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Facts, Essayists

  "The Ill-Defined Plot" by John Jeremiah Sullivan, www.newyorker.com. October 6, 2014.

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• All the Tauruses I know have this connection to the earth and the environment. We are very curious people, very loyal, very aware of and respectful of our surroundings. Also, we're stubborn, but that's our way. We understand what we want, which is not bad.

  Francisco Costa

  People, Connections, Stubborn

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• I'm curious about the extremes of the world

  Matt Prior

  World, Extremes

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• A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and how these are received in Japan.

  Alexander Gardner

  Religious, Book, Buddhism

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• It is curious, isn't it, that things you know well never look dirty and dilapidated-other people's old furniture looks shabby and moth-eaten. “I would never have that horrible old couch in my room,” you say. But your own old couch is every bit as bad and you are not disgusted with its appearance; it is your friend, you see, and you remember it when it was new and smart. Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.

  D.E. Stevenson

  Smart, Dirty, Long

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• I used to believe there were people on Mars, and of course now we know there aren't. Mars held particular interest. I was curious what kind of beings they would look like.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Believe, People, Looks

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• I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.

  Noah Baumbach

  Thinking, People, Way

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• I'm curious about life, period.

  Graham Nash

  Periods

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• I'm curious about everything, except what people have to say about me.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  People

  "Johnny Depp 'never' googles himself because he doesn't want to read 'horrible things'" by Alistair McGeorge, www.mirror.co.uk. April 17, 2014.

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• I'm no longer curious about things that will upset me.

  Louise Hay

  Upset

  Louise L. Hay, Cheryl Richardson (2011). “You Can Create an Exceptional Life: Candid Conversations with Louise Hay and Cheryl Richardson”, p.136, Hay House, Inc

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• I've always tried to maintain that I don't have any advice to give. I'm a curious observer.

  Aziz Ansari

  Giving, Advice, Observers

  "Aziz Ansari Wants to Help Men Date Better". Interview with Dan Reilly, www.esquire.com. December 28, 2013.

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• While almost all men feel an attraction drawing them to society, few are attracted strongly to Nature. In their reaction to Naturemen appear to me for the most part, notwithstanding their arts, lower than the animals. It is not often a beautiful relation, as in the case of the animals. How little appreciation of the beauty of the landscape there is among us! We have to be told that the Greeks called the world Kosmos, Beauty, or Order, but we do not see clearly why they did so, and we esteem it at best only a curious philological fact.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Beautiful, Appreciation

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.410, Penguin

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