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• I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.

  Jim Courier

  Player, Tennis, Feelings

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• I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable.

  Michael Fassbender

  Personality, Trying, Different

  "Michael Fassbender on Shooting Nude, Being Poor, Whom His Oscar Date Would Be". Interview with Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 18, 2012.

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• I am not second-guessing or questioning my understanding of the issue.

  Christine Maggiore

  Issues, Understanding, Questioning

  "A Mother's Denial, a Daughter's Death" by Charles Ornstein and Daniel Costello, articles.latimes.com. September 24, 2005.

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• There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Blessing, Wicked, Done

  'Dipsychus' (1865) sc. 6

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• I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.

  Woody Harrelson

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Woody Harrelson: I'm an anarchist" by Caitlin Mcdevitt, www.politico.com. May 31, 2013.

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• A Republican Congressman, Rep. Chris Lee, was caught flirting with a woman trolling for dates on Craigslist and sent her a shirtless photo of himself. He lied about his age and his marital status. He said he was 39 and divorced. He's 46 and married, though being a Republican congressman, I'm guessing he's really 60 and gay.

  Bill Maher

  Gay, Flirting, Age

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• With a character like a Captain Jack, who can essentially set up these verbal land mines around him, and just keep passing the "absurdity ball" around and the "irreverence ball" around, and keep people guessing and keep people confused, there's great safety in that. Me, myself, personally, I learn from it. It's a real pleasure, and I do need him.

  Johnny Depp

  Confused, Real, Character

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• What's going on?" Kynan asked Luc smiled, which was little more than a baring of his teeth. "She's a warg. She knows I know, but I'm guessing her human buddies don't know. She's afraid I'll tell." "Are you going to?" "That depends." "On what?" Luc's voice dropped an octave. "Whether or not she gives me what I want." "And that is?" "Fifteen minutes. Naked." "That's blackmail." Luc snorted. "Wargs call it negotiation." "So you want fifteen minutes...what will she want?" "With me?" Luc winked. "Two hours.

  Larissa Ione

  Two, Voice, Giving

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• Love should not be a guessing game. In fact, it shouldn't be a game at all. One should lay all the cards on the table, and be honest with intentions and feelings. And while some may hide and bluff with their cards, the true winners are those that lay their cards down honestly and find what they are looking for because of it.

  Carlos Salinas

  Love, Cards On The Table, Games

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• Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life, I am constantly second-guessing myself. My mind is filled with 'yes, buts,' 'so whats?' and other skeptical rejoinders. I am forever monitoring myself for traces of folly, insensitivity, arrogance, false humility, cruelty, stupidity, immaturity and, guess what, I keep finding examples. Age has not made me wiser, except maybe in retrospect.

  Phillip Lopate

  Humility, Writing, Forever

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• The most common mistake you'll make is forgetting to keep your own scorecard. Very little at work reinforces your ability to do this, so you will have to be vigilant. When evaluators give you an assessment, they are just guessing at who you are; they certainly are not the ones who know your potential. They can rate you and influence you, but they don't get to define you. That's your most honorable assignment: to define, every day through the way you deliver your work, the scope and nature of your inherent abilities.

  Charlotte Beers

  Mistake, Assessment, Giving

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• Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Character, People, Different

  "Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Talks THE THING and BULLET TO THE HEAD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Life has taught me one big lesson, always keep the girlies guessing.

  Elvis Presley

  Lessons, Taught, Bigs

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• Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.

  Sam Walton

  Next, Tricks, Predictable

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.315, Bantam

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• Second guessing a decision is a waste of time.

  Jack O'Neill

  Decision, Waste, Wasting Time

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• You know, what's interesting about Washington...It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second-nature.

  George W. Bush

  Government, Interesting, Kind

  George W. Bush's Remarks at Presentation of Commander-In-Chief's Trophy, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 17, 2002.

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• I'm guessing I'm your fake girlfriend? B. J. Asks, sighing. It's a miracle that he figured it out. He's not usually the best with things that aren't spelled out for him. Of course, sweetie, I say. I try not to think about the fact that I'm talking to B. J. Like we're in love. B. J. Is six-foot-four and 220 pounds. Not someone you want to think about being intimate with.

  Lauren Barnholdt

  Girlfriend, Thinking, Talking

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• Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

  Anthony Burgess

  Doctors, Physicians, Credit

  Nothing Like the Sun (1964)

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• But no matter for that, you can be tolerably happy, perhaps, notwithstanding; but as for guessing how happy I am, or knowing anything about the matter,--- O! its quite beyond what you can understand.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Knowing, Matter

  Ann Radcliffe (1811). “The Italian or the Confessional of the Black Penitents”, p.265, Lulu.com

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• So I'm guessing you're Seven and Ten; What can you do?" I say as I find our rifles in the sand and hand each of them a gun. "You can call me Marina," the girl with the brown hair says. "And I can breathe under water and see in the dark and heal the sick and wounded. And I have telekinesis." Call me Ella, I hear ten say in my head. Aside from my telepathy, I can change ages. "Awesome. I'm four, that nut job with the long black hair is nine and the beast is my chimaera, Bernie Kosar.

  Pittacus Lore

  Girl, Jobs, Dark

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• I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don't think anything can really beat the pure fun and pleasure of holding a magazine in your hand, reading the story on paper, being able to roll it up and put it in your pocket, reread again later, show it to a friend, carry it with you, toss it on a shelf, collect them, have a lot of magazines lined up and read them again as a series. I think young people have always loved that. I think they always will.

  Stan Lee

  Strong, Fun, Book

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• The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensifies. It's a place of tide and tantrum; of flirtations among fresh- and saltwaters, forests and shores; of tense negotiations with an ocean that gives much but demands more. Every year the raw rim that is this coast gets hammered and reshaped like molten bronze. This place roils with power and a sometimes terrible beauty. The coast remains youthful, daring, uncertain about tomorrow. The guessing, the risk; in a way, we're all thrill seekers here.

  Carl Safina

  Ocean, Reality, Years

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• We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

  Rich Mullins

  Humble, Scripture, Realizing

  Concert in Lufkin, Texas, www.kidbrothers.net. July 19, 1997.

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• If the prior distribution, at which I am frankly guessing, has little or no effect on the result, then why bother; and if it has a large effect, then since I do not know what I am doing how would I dare act on the conclusions drawn?

  Richard Hamming

  Littles, Results, Dare

  The Art of Probability for Scientists and Engineers (p. 298)

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• He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to leap along in their wake, jumping at meanings, guessing, clutching at known words, and chuckling at complicated jokes as they suddenly dawned. He had the glee of the porpoise then, pouring and leaping through strange seas.

  T. H. White

  Sea, Jumping, Talking

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.39, Penguin

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