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• I sometimes feel that my goal as a novelist would be to write a novel in which the language was so transparent that the reader would forget that language was the medium of understanding. Of course that's not possible, but it's some sort of idealized goal.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Understanding, Novelists

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• It's unlikely that machines would spontaneously decide they didn't like people, or that they had goals in opposition to those of human beings.

  Stuart J. Russell

  People, Machines, Unlikely

  "Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, www.businessinsider.com. August 9, 2015.

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• When it comes to wheat, my main goal is to inform people, including farmers, that the prevailing notion that cutting fat and eating whole grains will make you healthy is not only wrong, it's destructive.

  William Davis

  Cutting, People, Healthy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• As a young girl, I just wanted to have fun and compete. There were no goals of becoming an Olympic athlete. I wanted to hang out with my friends. I wanted to do something fun, and that's what I did

  Lolo Jones

  Girl, Fun, Athlete

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• A critical component of White House Scandal Defense 101 is rallying the partisan base. This keeps approval ratings in territory where the wheels don't start falling off. The way to achieve this goal is you go negative and you don't let up. If you're always attacking your accusers, the debate becomes one of Democrat vs. Republican, rather than right vs. wrong. Anyone who questions the legality of the decision to wiretap thousands of Americans unlawfully is attacked, as either an enabler of terrorists or a bitter partisan trying to distract a president at war.

  Bob Barr

  War, Fall, Approval Rating

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• The goal is that people will find something of themselves in it. But you don't need to know what a hexachord is! You don't need to know what serialism is. You don't need to know anything technical. It's more about the state of mind of being open and listening to what's really going on. And I think that the more open you can be, the better. So maybe it's not good to have expectations.

  Missy Mazzoli

  Thinking, People, Expectations

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The tough thing is how to cultivate a life where the paramecium of happiness gets a lot of chances to get out and swim and make more paramecia. That seems like an obvious universal goal for most humans.

  Leigh Newman

  Swim, Chance, Tough

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My career goals generally remain the same, but my short time goals constantly change either because I've reached them all or they no longer fit into my current strategy.

  Benjamin Stone

  Careers, Fit, Strategy

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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• My only goal is to win the Stanley Cup and do what I have to to win that.

  Jeremy Roenick

  Winning, Cups, Stanley Cup

  Source: www.ign.com

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• My goal is to always play interesting and very odd women.

  Jillian Bell

  Play, Interesting, Odd

  "If Comedy Central’s ‘Idiotsitter’ is Half as Funny As Talking to Its Creators, It Could Be the Funniest Show on TV". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. January 14, 2016.

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• I support Planned Parenthood privately with my personal contribution, and that should be the goal of any such agency, to find private donations.

  Chris Christie

  Agency, Support, Parenthood

  "Fact-checking the Republican debate". www.chicagotribune.com. January 15, 2016.

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• When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes. "Mom, I'm too young to dance," I told her. She kind of forced me, but I ended up loving it, and after the first lesson I came back and said, "Come on, Mom, I'll show you the box step." That introduced me not just to dancing but also to working with someone without having a goal.

  Jeff Bridges

  Mom, Class, Dancing

  "Jeff Bridges and his Buddhist teacher ruminate on life". Interview with Bernie Glassman, www.today.com. January 8, 2013.

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• Sometimes it's hard to take everyday concerns seriously when you think about vanished ecosystems that existed 300 million years ago and were eradicated by giant explosions. My goals haven't changed, because my goal has always been to save the world!

  Annalee Newitz

  Thinking, Years, Ecosystems

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When people hit on feeling a certain melancholy or elation, it's a really exciting moment. I think making that connection is the goal, and what makes something great.

  Craig Finn

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the instrumental bridge or a guitar solo where we try to do something unexpected, something beautiful or weird, or beautiful because it is weird. And of course I fail half the time, but yes that is the goal, to create even a few seconds of bliss, or sadness. The electric guitar is a great instrument for doing this because it is capable of surprising you. There are so many different sounds available.

  Dean Wareham

  Beautiful, Song, Sadness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To be entertaining and educational and enlightening, all at once, this is a good goal to have.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Educational, Enlightening, Entertaining

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Focus and having energy is the most important goal when choosing my activities and how I treat myself.

  Crystal Renn

  Focus, Important, Energy

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I consider parenting skills, those skills that help children: (1) develop clear and important goals; and (2) figure out flexible and persistent ways of achieving their goals.

  Timothy Carey

  Children, Skills, Important

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think your goal is to win every single game you play. ... I'm not a guy that just puts a number on it and says we're going to do this, or makes a bravado statement like, "We're going to the playoffs and I guarantee it." I'm not a guy that talks about what we're going to do. I'm just, "Let's do it." And what it is is, we need to work extremely hard.

  Chip Kelly

  Winning, Thinking, Games

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I think sometimes when you look long term, you kind of forget to take care of what you have to take care of on a daily basis. We're into short-term goals more than long-term goals.

  Chip Kelly

  Thinking, Long, Looks

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• For years I was so busy building walls I did not see I was imprisoning myself behind them, and did not recognize this pattern as being addiction. My addictive thinking and behavior became the bars of my cell. Denying feeling empty inside, I constantly looked for new things to acquire, people to be around, substances to take, and new goals to achieve in order to feel better about myself. Over the last four decades I have focused on healing my addictive mind and helping others do the same.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Wall, Healing, Feel Better

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The majority of the people I've taken photographs of, I've had conversations with. "What are your goals and aspirations?" "What are you about?" It's not just about me capturing the image; I want to know what you are about.

  Jamel Shabazz

  Taken, People, Majority

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Be persistent. Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.

  Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

  Hard Work, Want, Way

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• Once parents have a clear idea of their important parenting goals, beliefs, and values, they can then think about specific situations and identify the outcomes they would like to achieve in these situations. How can you be the parent you want to be whether or not your children are behaving as you would prefer?

  Timothy Carey

  Children, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and this guy there said, "You're going to be enlightened at the end of this week, that's my goal." I was the engineer, so I was recording everything at it was happening, but I was also participating, because I felt like it. So at the end of it, I did understand what enlightenment was, one-hundred percent.

  Larkin Grimm

  Guy, Say Anything, Enlightenment

  Source: therumpus.net

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