Exactly Is Quotes

• What exactly is a french before it's fried?

  D. J. MacHale

  Pendragon

  D.J. MacHale (2009). “The Never War”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• If you choose to lead your life just like everyone else, then what exactly is it that you have to offer?

  Wayne Dyer

  Offers, You Choose, Ifs

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• And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke?

  Syd Barrett

  Dream, Jokes

  "Song: 'Jugband Blues'". 1968.

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• What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever?

  Caroline Knapp

  Inspiring, Beauty, Thinking

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• You’re a guardian angel now.”.... I’m your guardian angel,” he said. “I get my very own guardian angel? What, exactly, is your job description?” “Guard your body.” His smile tipped higher. “I take my job seriously, which means I’m going to need to get acquainted with the subject matter on a personal level.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Jobs, Mean, Angel

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• What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?

  J. K. Rowling

  Ducks, Muggles, Rubber

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• Won? He’s one of them! How exactly is that winning?” Michael shook his head, moved up behind her, and put his hands on her shoulders. He kissed the nape of her neck gently. “I don’t know, Eve. I’m just telling you what I heard. He got some kind of agreement out of the vampires. And it was because Amelie loved him.” “Yeah, loved him enough to kill him and turn him into a bloodsucking fiend,” Eve said grimly. “How sweet. Romance isn’t dead. Oh, wait. It is.

  Rachel Caine

  Sweet, Winning, Agreement

  Rachel Caine (2007). “The Dead Girls' Dance: The Morganville Vampires”, p.146, Penguin

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• What, exactly, is the happiness that can be earned by turning away from reality?

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Reality

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• What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.

  Douglas Coupland

  People, Alive, Odd

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• The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

  Wendell Berry

  Speak, Ability, Knows

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Imagination in Place”, p.13, Counterpoint

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• What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Defining, Mathematics

  "Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 3rd edition. Chapter 15: "Random Reflections on Mathematics and Science", p. 273-274, 1991.

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• So, what exactly is the News-Press' unforgivable crime? Calling illegal aliens 'illegals' in a headline for a story about illegal aliens descending on California DMVs. A new law went into effect last Friday allowing illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses without proof of lawful residence. The article featured interviews with ecstatic illegal aliens, including one who has been in the country illegally for '22 years.'

  Michelle Malkin

  Friday, Country, Years

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• What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a 'modem', can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo

  Dave Barry

  Data, Ducks, Kazoos

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.175, Ballantine Books

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• At its heart, this book touches on a mystery of economics: what exactly is happening in our world, and why does it often work so well? As the authors show, apparently messy systems - such as untidy desks - actually exhibit a high degree of order: the piles of paper are close to hand, and the most important documents tend to make their way to the top while un-needed ones sink to the bottom. If the mess works, why mess with it?

  Nicholas Blincoe

  Book, Heart, Our World

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• What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

  James M. Barrie

  Funny, Math, Science

  James M. Barrie (2013). “My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)”, p.153, Jazzybee Verlag

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• What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.

  Anna Pavlova

  Success, Women, Feelings

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• There are some filmmakers like the Coen brothers that are very precise. They make shooting boards, they do it shot by shot, and they follow every single line in their own script. They make amazing movies, and I admire them so much, but I can't do that. I have no idea how the movie will exactly be. While shooting, I just try to create an accident that I don't control very well - grabbing things from different sources and ideas, and then having a sensation somewhere that it will make sense.

  Pablo Larrain

  Brother, Ideas, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I come from an improvisational background so I'm used to playing. I'm used to not knowing what exactly is going to come out.

  Naomi Grossman

  Knowing, Used, Backgrounds

  Source: collider.com

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• What exactly is "midair"? Is there some other part of air besides the "mid" part?

  George Carlin

  Air

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Congratulations to Obama! He's now increased the debt more in three years than George W. Bush did his entire eight year presidency. But all that spending was worth it because just look at the great results! So what exactly is the argument that Obama isn't a hugely incompetent failure? So far it's 'Look! Over there! A war on women!'

  Frank J. Fleming

  Congratulations, War, Years

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• What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has
  really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something
  else. Roughly speaking, people know that it deals with numbers,
  figures, with relations, operations, and that its formal procedures
  involving axioms, proofs, lemmas, theorems have not changed
  since the time of Archimedes.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Numbers, People, Defining

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• What exactly is 'viewer discretion'? If viewers had discretion, most television shows would not be on the air.

  George Carlin

  Air, Television, Shows

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?

  Thomas Sowell

  Share, Fairs, Fair Share

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• I glanced at Radu. "What, exactly is Louis-Cesare's problem?'. [..] Suddenly a speculative gleam lit his eyes. It made me nervous. 'He tends to be very protective of women,"he said thoughtfully. "You're a woman Dory." "Thank you for pointing that out. But I didn't think dhampirs qualified." Radu smirked. "It appears you've been upgraded.

  Karen Chance

  Eye, Thinking, Gleam

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• We can't just act without thinking anymore, Tris. They've been trying to teach as that all along. I guess if we're mages, we can't exactly be kids, can we? - Sandry after the pirate attack

  Tamora Pierce

  Kids, Thinking, Pirate

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