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• But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.

  Eddie Bracken

  Fun, Fear, Heaven

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• I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. But then he'll say, "I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull." I think he's kind of nutty. [...] There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Flower

  "What Do You Care What Other People Think?". Book by Richard P. Feynman, "The Making of a Scientist," p. 11, 1988.

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• She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most important question any individual could ask was, "How might I serve?" If her response to that question had been pure, surely she would have coninued with the calling to be a nurse.... But that role hadn't been quite enough for her. She would have missed the excitement, the thrill when she embarked on the work of collecting clues to support a case.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Jobs, Helping Others, Nurse

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• Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West--the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the opening of a new territory. It took everybody out of their own little world. The cowboy lasted a hundred years, created more songs and prose and poetry than any other folk figure. The closest thing was the Japanese samurai. Now, I wonder who'll continue it.

  John Wayne

  Country, Song, Cowboy

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.33, Taylor Trade Publications

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• A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.

  John Stuart Mill

  Government, Names, Giving

  John Stuart Mill (1964). “Collected works of John Stuart Mill”

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• I wanna be selective... very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement.

  Timbaland

  Hip Hop, Hips, Boring

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• The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.

  Bertrand Russell

  Intelligent, Men, Emotional

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.441, Psychology Press

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• Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

  Irving Stone

  Inspirational, Love Is, People

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• Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.

  Freddie Mercury

  Needs, Excess, Disease

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• We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio?

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Morning, Brother, Journey

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• A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear.

  David Whyte

  Real, Passion, Soul

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• The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.

  Andre Breton

  Childhood, Mind, Burning

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• Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don't fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn't good for him.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Interesting, Void

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• The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Letting Go, Real, Differences

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2015). “Learning to Walk in the Dark: Because God often shows up at night”, p.82, Canterbury Press

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• Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

  William James

  War, Men, Thrill

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• Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Business, Discovery, Depth

  "Gary Vaynerchuk gives personal brand top billing". Interview with John Warrillow, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 29, 2010.

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• Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.

  Wendell Berry

  Challenges, Feelings, Risk

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• It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who either die or marry. Imagine then the interest that surrounded Miss Wintertowne! No young lady ever had such advantages before: for she died upon the Tuesday, was raised to life in the early hours of Wednesday morning, and was married upon the Thursday; which some people thought too much excitement for one week.

  Susanna Clarke

  Morning, People, Tuesday

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.116, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.

  Oswald Chambers

  Health, Doe, Saint

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• Here is an affirmation for today: I feel passionately about my life, and this passion fills me with excitement and energy!

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Sep 07, 2013

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• Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill suit the wishes or the policy of another. The constitution is not subject to such fluctuations. It is to have a fixed, uniform, permanent construction. It should be, so far at least as human infirmity will allow, not dependent upon the passions or parties of particular times, but the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.

  Joseph Story

  Party, Passion, Yesterday

  Joseph Story, Edmund H. Bennett (1858). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the Un. States: With a Prelim. Review of the Constitut. History of the Colonies and States, Bef. the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.303

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• It was very easy for me to dedicate myself to the care of mothers, help them have healthy babies, help them be healthy, help them in a place where they don't have opportunities. Success breeds the excitement to continue going. It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.

  Annie Lennox

  Mother, Baby, Opportunity

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• During the season, your team should be led with exuberance and excitement. You should live the journey. You should live it right. You should live it together. You should live it shared. You should try to make one another better. You should get on one another if somebody's not doing their part. You should hug one another when they are. You should be disappointed in a loss and exhilarated in a win. It's all about the journey.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Team, Loss, Winning

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2001). “Five-Point Play: Duke's Journey to the 2001 National Championship”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy‚ but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat‚ and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune.

  David Byrne

  New York, Moving, Water

  "If the 1% stifles New York's creative talent, I'm out of here" by David Byrne, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2013.

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• I can't think of a comparable level of cultural excitement about something since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in the 1960s.

  Stanley Bing

  Moon, Thinking, Levels

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