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• One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

  Sheila Heti

  Women, Looks, Genius

  Sheila Heti (2012). “How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life”, p.4, Macmillan

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• American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

  Aubrey McClendon

  Running, Would Be, Today

  "Chesapeake Energy: Everything You Need To Know About The ‘World’s Biggest Fracker’". stateimpact.npr.org. May 29, 2012.

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• Feminism is not a fad. It's not like Angry Birds. Although it does involve a lot of angry birds. Bad example.

  Bridget Christie

  Bird, Feminism, Fads

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• As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have shifted somewhat. In my youth, for example, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl'.

  Tom Lehrer

  Girl, Youth, Language

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• A good example of a lyric that makes me laugh but might not hit anybody right away is, "Sit behind the guitar and play the chords," just because it's such a lame image. It's not rock'n'roll at all to be sitting behind a guitar.

  Tim Heidecker

  Rocks, Guitar, Play

  "Tim Heidecker Talks Album, Tim & Eric Movie". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. January 21, 2011.

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• I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about. When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture. It really moved the dial politically. That's what is needed in the women's movement - a strategy that can drive awareness and culture change.

  Ai-jen Poo

  Thinking, Issues, Media

  "An incredible container for transformation". Interview with Sheila Bapat, logger.believermag.com. May 9, 2014.

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• We live in a trans period. Contemporary issues of sexuality, for example - the exciting aspects of them - have to do with transgenderedness. And there's trans-nationality. There are people like me, for example. I mean, what am I? Am I Indian? Am I American? And I'm not alone in being between things.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Mean, Issues, People

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• The book that influenced me most is Sherlock Holmes, which teaches you the way to deal with reality: to deduct. It teaches you to put together the signs. For example, I look at a person and I see their coat, their jacket, their handwriting, their iPhone, and I am able to deduct some details about who they are, what they wear, and what they do. For many years I was fascinated with Sherlock Holmes. The series trained me to look at the world through these sharp, unforgiving eyes.

  Signe Baumane

  Book, Eye, Reality

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• I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie.

  Steven Spielberg

  Decision, Half, Defeat

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• Resources on the planet are limited, and limited resources can come to an end. But there are also a lot of resources that are renewable. A lot of land, for example, can be reclaimed from the encroaching deserts.

  Wangari Maathai

  Land, Desert, Limited Resources

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We have more freedom of the press than any other country in a similar position. Even way back in the frightened '50s, Communists, for example, could publish their magazine. The KKK published their own books. But face it, the mass media is controlled by money.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Book, Media

  Source: portside.org

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• I would not have been able to accomplish a lot of what I did professionally had I not learned to fly myself and owned an airplane. For example, I was able to fly to an exhibition for the day and be back home in time for dinner. I never would have been able to do that flying commercially.

  Arnold Palmer

  Home, Airplane, Flying

  "Arizona 20 Years: Arnold Palmer". Interview with Miguel Enamorado, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2012.

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• Look at the world of books nowadays. People just download books. They don't go to a bookstore. Amazon is wiping out Borders and Barnes and Noble. Those are brilliant examples of ephemeralization doing more with less at a better price.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Book, People, Wiping Out

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• The ban doesn't have anything to do with Livestrong or my ability to work in [the cancer] community. Perhaps it speeds it up. I don't know the examples in Great Britain of athletes who have fallen. I know the examples in the United States - the Tiger Woods, the Michael Vicks, even the Bill Clintons - people who are still out there able to work.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Athlete, People

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my favorite bands at that moment was, for example, like - bands like Metallica or Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Santana, you know? And then I start to play metal, actually, when I was - at the age of 15.

  Juanes

  Crazy, Rocks, Years

  "Colombian Singer Juanes Is a Savvy Businessman". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block and Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 26, 2007.

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• [To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.

  Helen Suzman

  Civilization, White, Skins

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• The inquirer after holiness should associate with those whose intelligence will instruct him; whose example will guide him; whose conversation will inspire him; whose cautions will warn him.

  John Angell James

  Inspire, Holiness, Guides

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 314, 1895.

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• It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old thing, but if you wait until February, you are convinced that nothing less than Middlemarch will do.

  Anne Fadiman

  Old Things, Waiting, Psychology

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• Consider, for example, lust versus love. When we lust after someone or something, we think in terms of what they (or it) can do for us. When we love, however, our thoughts are immersed in what we can give to someone else. Giving makes us feel good, so we do it happily. But when we lust, we only want to take. When someone we love is in pain, we feel pain. When someone whom we lust is in pain, we only think in terms of what that loss or inconvenience means to us.

  David J. Lieberman

  Pain, Mean, Loss

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• There's a condensed softness about the Albanian people, and I've witnessed examples of their hospitality.

  Masiela Lusha

  Running, Blood, People

  "REEL Lady: Masiela Lusha". reelladies.wordpress.com. September 1, 2008.

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• Education has a tremendous power on man. Can't we see to which astonishing disciple the people of Sparte have submitted ("s'est plié", Fr.) for centuries, and this with a view to very petty purposes: purely outer greatness, the military predominace of Sparte. This example proves that man can everything on themselves when they want it ("peuvent tout sur eux-mêmes quand ils le veulent", Fr.); therefore it would only be a question of making them will the good.

  African Spir

  Military, Greatness, Men

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 58), 1937.

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• The United States is a warning rather than an example to the world.

  Lydia M. Child

  United States, Warning, World

  To the twenty-fifth-anniversary meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 1857.

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• Designing Online Communities is a must-have for anyone designing or researching online communities, particularly for learning. Owens' work is both comprehensive and eminently readable, a sweeping look at the technologies, design patterns, and cultural forms they produce that is both theoretically ambitious and grounded in examples and tools that will help you develop, research, and manage online communities.

  Kurt Squire

  Technology, Design, Community

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• User experience is really the whole totality. Opening the package good example. It's the total experience that matters. And that starts from when you first hear about a product experience is more based upon memory than reality. If your memory of the product is wonderful, you will excuse all sorts of incidental things.

  Donald A. Norman

  Memories, Reality, Matter

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• A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustnt be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Color, Should Have, Personality

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