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• Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we’re not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail, and sometimes when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.

  Martha Beck

  Powerful, Thinking, Differences

  "Knowing your 'action' style could lead to success" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 8, 2008.

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• I really am guilty, of many somethings, all of them lethal and very enjoyable and technically not quite legal.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Guilty

  Jeff Lindsay (2011). “Double Dexter: Dexter Morgan (6)”, p.75, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Once again, in the fine tradition of North Texas Lab Bands, this is truly a superb band. Under the artful leadership of Neil Slater, these great musicians have managed to combine small group "openness" with the swinging precision of a classic big band. Very enjoyable!

  Michael Brecker

  Texas, Musician, Groups

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• You must find some way to elevate your act of writing into an entertainment. Usually this means giving the reader an enjoyable surprise. Any number of devices will do the job.... These seeming amusements in fact become your 'style.' When we say we like the style of certain writers, what we mean is that we like their personality as they express it on paper.

  William Zinsser

  Jobs, Writing, Mean

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• Hopefully I don't have to play for eight years but can go and relax somewhere and do something enjoyable while I'm still young.

  Clinton Portis

  Eight, Years, Play

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• But the quality of writing in the series [game of Thrones] is paramount. That's probably why all of us are involved in this and all of us are quite so loyal to it, because we don't have to expend a lot of energy trying to make a silk purse out of a pig's ear. The quality of the writing is really good, and that's what makes playing a character so enjoyable, whether he's heroic or villainous.

  Charles Dance

  Writing, Character, Pigs

  "Game of Thrones, Charles Dance interview: ‘I treat Peter Dinklage appallingly’". Interview with James Lachno, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 31, 2013.

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• When people get together that come from different musical backgrounds, a lot of times there's is a good ... it's very enjoyable to say somebody, let me turn you on to some things, and the other person does the same thing. And they play you stuff that maybe you weren't that familiar with and likewise.

  Robbie Robertson

  Play, People, Musical

  "Rock and Roll". "Shakespeares in The Alley", openvault.wgbh.org. September 1995.

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• We do what we want to do. We write songs. We try not to repeat ourselves too much. We have our own sound and our own way of doing things. Up until now it has always been enjoyable. None of the members have ever got to the point where they don't want to be involved in it ... It's not entirely possible for me to stand back and look at the Rolling Stones because being a part of it you can't. I wish that I could just sit in the audience for one night and see the show. Everyone in the band has said that at some point. But then you wouldn't be seeing the whole band. And that's the problem with that.

  Keith Richards

  Song, Writing, Night

  "The Rolling Stones: a career in quotes" by Steve Turner, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2013.

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• Ideally, you want to be in a fifty-fifty power-sharing arrangement with the audience - both of you are there for a mutually enjoyable experience.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Experience, Fifty, Want

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• If you like soccer, then welcome to America. See, our country already has entertainment so watching people chase a ball for four hours to end 0 - 0 is not enjoyable - unless, of course, the bleachers collapse and half of Europe dies.

  Daniel Tosh

  Soccer, Country, Europe

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• My life since the White House has been much more all-encompassing, much more enjoyable. The main thing that I've acquired has been access to the poorest and most destitute, forgotten, and suffering people on Earth. It's not possible for a President to actually know them.

  Jimmy Carter

  White, People, House

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 22, 2008.

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• What's enjoyable for me, as an actor, is to do as many different things as possible.

  Michael Sheen

  Different, Actors, Different Things

  Source: collider.com

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• Making music is like a form of religion for me, because it soothes your heart and increases the pleasure of your brain. Most of all, it's very enjoyable to express something that you can only hear and not see, which is not bad.

  Ornette Coleman

  Heart, Brain, Pleasure

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• Everything about acting drives me and gives me the need to really try it. It's an evolution - doing the same thing for 12 years is kind of a chunk. Anyone would be up for a little bit of a change. It is so rewarding to do a movie, and so enjoyable. It's hard work, but really wonderful.

  Agyness Deyn

  Hard Work, Years, Giving

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• People love a player with ideas, because at the end of the day, the crowd want to be entertained. And with football being only a game, it has to be enjoyable too.

  Ernst Happel

  Football, Player, Games

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• Finding an excuse not to buy a brand can be just as enjoyable as finding an excuse to buy one. That, too, is human nature.

  David F. D'Alessandro

  Human Nature, Excuse, Brands

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• I was clever enough to know that John Donne was offering something that was awfully enjoyable. I just wasn't clever enough to actually enjoy it.

  Wallace Shawn

  Clever, Offering, Enough

  Wallace Shawn (2010). “The Designated Mourner”, p.22, Theatre Communications Group

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• Find a way to enjoy parts of every run. Most of your runs should be mostly enjoyable.

  Jeff Galloway

  Running, Way, Should

  Jeff Galloway (2010). “Running Until You're 100”, p.40, Meyer & Meyer Verlag

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• It is a universal condition of the enjoyable that the mind must believe in the existence of a law, and yet have a mystery to move about in.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Believe, Moving, Law

  James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.248, CUP Archive

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• I really have been blessed and fortunate to have accomplished what I have. I hope to do this for a long time. It's such an enjoyable job. I love to do it.

  Jim Cummings

  Jobs, Blessed, Long

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• I love actors, both my parents were actors, and the work with actors is the most enjoyable part of making a film. It's important that they feel protected and are confident they won't be betrayed. When you create that atmosphere of trust, it's in the bag - the actors will do everything to satisfy you.

  Michael Haneke

  Parent, Atmosphere, Important

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• I don't want to convince you that mathematics is useful. It is, but utility is not the only criterion for value to humanity. Above all, I want to convince you that mathematics is beautiful, surprising, enjoyable, and interesting. In fact, mathematics is the closest that we humans get to true magic. How else to describe the patterns in our heads that - by some mysterious agency - capture patterns of the universe around us? Mathematics connects ideas that otherwise seem totally unrelated, revealing deep similarities that subsequently show up in nature.

  Ian Stewart

  Beautiful, Education, Math

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• It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today.

  George Foreman

  Memories, Past, Reminiscing

  George Foreman, Ken Abraham (2007). “God In My Corner: A Spiritual Memoir”, p.81, Thomas Nelson

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• Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to
  make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
  As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If
  we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for
  personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing
  a part of our lives?

  Alan Kay

  Art, Reading, Writing

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• Journeys up the Metaphoric River are hugely enjoyable and highly recommended. Since every genre is nourished by its heady waters, a paddle steamer can take even the most walk-shy tourists to their chosen destination. As a bonus, there is traditionally at least one murder on board each trip--a "consideration" to the head steward will ensure that it is not you.

  Jasper Fforde

  Journey, Genre Is, Rivers

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