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• As to the pretty girls who went past, from the day on which I had first known that their cheeks could be kissed, I had become curious about their souls. And the Universe had appeared to me more interesting.

  Marcel Proust

  Girl, Women, Past

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.648, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• 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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• Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its loquacity and verbosity the curious paradox of the minimalist form. This art of the nuance in repetition and placement she shares with the orchestral compositions of Philip Glass.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Art, Glasses, Silence

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1998). “Sight-readings: American Fictions”, Random House Incorporated

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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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• 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 poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, giving way to the corrupt influences of a decaying general culture, seems to have abandoned all the properties of versification and reason in its mad scramble after sensational novelty; whilst the other and quieter school constituting a more logical evolution from the poesy of the Georgian period, demands an accuracy of rhyme and metre unknown even to the polished artists of the age of Pope.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  School, Artist, Mad

  "The Allowable Rhyme". Book by H. P. Lovecraft, 1915.

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• I just really like ants, and I really like science. I was interested and curious about the quantum world and the physics behind how it all works.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Ants, World, Physics

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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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• Voicing acting is usually fun. I'm very curious about that world. I'm a fan of documentaries, as well, and the voice kind of makes it right. Mostly for me, though, it's all about the acting -you don't have to get hair and makeup and the whole bit. You just can have fun with the acting.

  Marg Helgenberger

  Fun, Makeup, Hair

  Source: movieweb.com

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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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• If they come prying they can leave curious.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Ifs

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “Tehanu”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions.

  Kathy Ireland

  Persons, Asks

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• I've always been curious in why different people believe the things they do and do the things they do - in the different ways that people live.

  Marshall Curry

  Believe, People, Different

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• The night club had a curious and diverse appeal. To some it was a sex-exciter. To others, frequenting a night club and throwing away money was a form of exhibitionism...wealthy men from out of town visited the clubs for appalling orgies of spending and drinking, and most of them seemed to think it was worth the cost.

  Stanley Walker

  Sex, Drinking, Night

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• I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of intelligent and curious young ... [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that ... education is mankind's most important enterprise.

  Moses Hadas

  Education, Teacher, Book

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• There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room in those days, when I was still among the living. The city streets were seas of humanity; and now in these high buildings dim-witted souls hover in luxurious privacy, gazing through the television window at a faraway world of kissing and touching. It is bound to produce some great fund of common knowledge, some new level of human awareness, a curious skepticism, to be so alone.

  Anne Rice

  Loneliness, Kissing, Sea

  Anne Rice (2010). “The Queen of the Damned”, p.83, Ballantine Books

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• In the meane time know this, that the learning of warranties is one of the most curious and cunning learnings of the law, and of great use and consequence.

  Edward Coke

  Law, Use, Cunning

  Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Sir Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (Earl of) (1853). “The first part of the Institutes of the laws of England: or, A commentary upon Littleton. Not the name of the author only, but of the law itself ...”

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• Are you curious about cutting off your finger? Do you want to know what that feels like? To me, taking drugs is the same type of thing. In the end, all that happens is you get hurt by it.

  Justin Bieber

  Hurt, Cutting, Drug

  "The gospel according to Justin Bieber" by Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2011.

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• It is naive to believe that a steady diet of blatant immorality, played out nightly in our living rooms, has no effect on people. I am always curious when individuals insist that what they watch on television or in movie theaters doesn't affect them. ... Are we really to believe that hours, leading to years, of television viewing will not affect attitudes about everything from family life to appropriate sexual relations?

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Attitude, Believe, Years

  "Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes".

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• Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Pleasant, Pleasant Things

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.303, Psychology Press

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• It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

  Mark Helprin

  Stupid, Differences, Curiosity

  Mark Helprin (2012). “In Sunlight and In Shadow”, p.531, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality, It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspiration, Mortality, Essays

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Theory is a dirty word in some managerial quarters. That is rather curious, because all of us, managers especially, can no more get along without theories than libraries can get along without catalogs and for the same reason: theories help us make sense of incoming information.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Dirty, Library, Information

  Henry Mintzberg (2009). “Managers Not Mbas: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The human mind is a curious thing. It can take just so much and no more.

  Lin Yutang

  Mind, Humans, Human Mind

  Lin Yutang, (2013). “Between Tears and Laughter”, p.10, Read Books Ltd

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