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• It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Arrogant, Bulls, Care

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• I have a basic theorem as to how I do my jokes. Growing up, I knew when to cross the line and when not to cross the line. It's the same with my comedy. I know what my audience will take and how much they won't take. I can't give you a formula for it. It's my own personal formula inside my head. Somebody else's might be different.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Growing Up, Giving, Different

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• Jesus Christ is the greatest man in the history of the world. And to me, he's the greatest person in the history of mankind and the universe. We can't prove it, I can't put it in a test tube or in an astronomical formula, but by faith I believe it because the Bible teaches it.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Believe, Men

  "Tony Snow Interviews Billy Graham". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.deceptioninthechurch.com. January 2, 2000.

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• Our theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths we know, and then we choose between them for subjective reasons. We choose the kind of theory to which we are already partial: we follow 'elegenace' or 'economy'

  William James

  Truth, Alternatives, Kind

  William James (2015). “Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth”, p.173, William James

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• I have told our senior executives that I will slaughter holy cows if it benefits the company's long-term success. When we asked ourselves whether Formula 1 still matched the concept of a sustainable company, the clear answer was no.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Senior, Long, Answers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are many different types of people that end up coming to me and saying 'Yeah I want to cook.' Some of them successful, some not. There's no one formula, but if I get someone coming through the backdoor who knows that they want to get into the cooking field, they feel this inside-out love for it, this attraction to it, that person is an awful lot easier to work with.

  Paul Rankin

  Successful, People, Cooking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• In the future I would like to try other forms of racing, testing Formula cars or single seaters would be good, but again it is finding the time as I am incredibly busy. I don't think I have the time to try any other new sports. I have already cut skiing out of my routine in order to manage the racing and riding relationship. By the looks of things I am going to be busy for quite a few years.

  Liz Halliday

  Sports, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Life itself today has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of Einstein, of revolution. In this new projection, the best-known formulas and objects become displaced, fantastic, familiar-unfamiliar. This is why it is so logical for literature today to be drawn to the fantastic plot, or to an amalgam of reality and fantasy.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Reality

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• I don't have some songwriting formula that I kinda go by. Usually it just comes by way of inspiration. Sometimes I'm inspired by a melody first and sometimes I'm inspired by a lyric. Typically, I'm inspired by an idea for a lyric and then after we get the lyric going then we write a melody to it.

  Natalie Grant

  Inspiration, Writing, Ideas

  "Natalie Grant’s whirlwind success continues with 'Hurricane'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• The ultimate success formula: I) Decide what you want (Be precise! Clarity is power) II) Take action (because desire is not enough) III) Notice what's working or not (You don't want to continue to expend energy on an approach that's worthless IV) Change your approach until you achieve what you want (Flexibility gives you the power to create a new approach and a new result.)

  Tony Robbins

  Giving, Desire, Energy

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• To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Death, Mean, Dying

  "Ideals and Doubts", 10 Illinois Law Rev 3, 1915.

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• Any new formula which suddenly emerges in our consciousness has its roots in long trains of thought; it is virtually old when it first makes its appearance among the recognized growths of our intellect.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Train Of Thought, Ideas, Roots

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• If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Adversity, Trouble, Capacity

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• Style has no formula, but it has a secret key. It is the extension of your personality. The summation of this indefinable net of your feeling, knowledge and experience. Take colour as a totality of relations within a framecolour is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.

  Ernst Haas

  Thinking, Keys, Personality

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• For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. The earth has been drenched with blood shed in this cause, the face of day darkened with the blackness of the crimes perpetrated in its name.

  Felix Adler

  Men, Blood, Years

  Freedom from Religion foundation profile, ffrf.org.

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• I think as a 20-year-old you expect life to always be easy. You get given a good hand and the chance to race in Formula One. You think the driver can make the difference, can make up for everything else within the team. But that is not the case. You are racing in such a competitive sport so that doesn't happen.

  Jenson Button

  Sports, Team, Thinking

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• The fast, flowing parts, the high-speed corners, that's where a Formula One car is at its best - changes of direction, pulling high g-forces left and right.

  Jenson Button

  Car, Speed, Force

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• I do not want [photography] explained to me in terms of... formulas, learned, but so hopelessly unsatisfying. I do not want my butterfly stuck on a pin and put in a glass case. I want to see the sunlight on its wings as it flits from flower to flower and I don't care a rap what its Latin name may be.

  Jacob August Riis

  Photography, Latin, Flower

  Jacob August Riis (1901). “The Making of an American”

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• Is it a spiral of water in the tragic gleam of a revolver, an egg, a glistening arc or the floodgate of reason, a keen ear attuned to a mineral hiss, or a turbine of algebraic formulas? (On Man Ray's first photograms, 1921.)

  Tristan Tzara

  Men, Eggs, Water

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• Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.

  Desi Arnaz

  Successful, Elements, Television

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Photography, Jobs, Thinking

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• Nothing can really prepare you for when you get in the Formula One car. Knowing that you're driving a multimillion-dollar car, and if you crash it it's going to cost a lot of money, and they might not give you another chance, is scary.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Knowing, Car, Giving

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That, as much as anything, may explain one of the more enduring conspiracy theories of the moment, the notion that we are about to send a quarter of a million American soldiers to war for the sake of Israel.

  Bill Keller

  War, Simple, Israel

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• The greatest thing about form and convention is that it saves you from having to reinvent the wheel. Now, whether you mount the wheel to a horse carriage or a Formula One racing car, make it plain or give it spinning rims, those are all craft decisions. But the fact of the wheel remains: it will turn if you set it down. That's what I mean about the beauty of the gifts genre can offer.

  Chris Abani

  Horse, Mean, Giving

  "The Rumpus Interview With Chris Abani". Interview with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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• When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.

  Wyclef Jean

  Talent

  "We Played Two Truths And A Lie With Wyclef Jean And The Knocks". Interview with Ezra Marcus, livenation.vice.com. January 22, 2016.

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