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• I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes, and there is no way that your eyes don't affect your judgement. The only true way to listen is with your ears and your heart. (p.251)

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Heart, Eye, Judgement

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• I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'

  Sarah Palin

  Want, Mayors, Court

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• But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.

  Andrew Motion

  Writing, Hats, Bells

  "Ode to a right royal charmer". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2000.

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• It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.

  Sharon Olds

  Appreciate, World, Might

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• During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages of my first novel. I can still recite the opening paragraph from memory - only now I cringe when I do it because they are - surprise! - a classic example of overwriting, in addition to being a more than a little pretentious.

  Patricia Briggs

  Memories, College, Years

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• Eat, sleep and swim, that's all I can do.

  Michael Phelps

  Sleep, Swim, Can Do

  "Nutrition tips: what to eat and when", www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2009.

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• What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.

  Jacques Audiard

  Genre Is, Use, Bigs

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• The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

  Steven Seagal

  Children, Giving, Important

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• The only thing I can really offer the Filipino people is my sincerity.

  Corazon Aquino

  People, Sincerity, Filipino

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• Whenever I think of God I can only conceive of Him as a Being infinitely great and infinitely good. This last quality of the divine nature inspires me with such confidence and joy that I could have written even a miserere in tempo allegro.

  Joseph Haydn

  Thinking, Joy, Inspire

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• The only thing I can be sure of at any given time is what I am thinking myself. I have no idea what the others are thinking. Do they think space is big and dangerous? I do. What do they believe in? I think nobody ought to be alone. That one should be with someone. With friends. With the person one loves. I think it is important to love. I think it's the most important thing.

  Erlend Loe

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.82, Canongate Books

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• I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Song, Weather, News

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• I can live well with what I have.I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more.

  Jose Mujica

  People, President, Trying

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• I can spare a dime, brother, but in these morally inflationary times, a dime goes a lot farther if it's demanding work rather than adding to the indignity of relief.

  Phil Ochs

  Brother, Relief, Dimes

  Interview with Michael Ross, 1969.

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• I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.

  Vera Brittain

  Thinking, Important, Majority

  Vera Brittain (2005). “One Voice: Pacifist Writings from the Second World War”, p.42, A&C Black

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• Each training session I'm getting better and better. I have no other duties now, no worries, it's all about training, eating and sleeping. I have a lot more time and can put a lot more effort into training. I'm feeling better every day. As long as I'm feeling myself I'm definitely in no doubt I can go to the Olympics and win.

  Usain Bolt

  Sleep, Feel Better, Winning

  "Usain Bolt: 'Legends have come before me, but this is my time'" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2012.

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• I can run sub-10 any time but I'm just not ready.

  Asafa Powell

  Running, Ready, Not Ready

  "100m glory for Jamaican sprint duo", www.cnn.com. March 20, 2006.

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• Sport that consumed me for over two decades . . . is now gone. Now it's just me. No pressure, no expectations, no need to be fast, good, strong or to even improve. Yet I can't let go of this idea that I always need to be more than I am. And it is eating me alive.

  Clara Hughes

  Sports, Letting Go, Strong

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• I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

  O. J. Simpson

  Incidents, Know How, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This is the ultimate cruelty, isn't it? That I can talk and talk and to anyone listening, it's only air--too rich a diet to be swallowed by a mundane world.

  David Henry Hwang

  Air, Listening, World

  David Henry Hwang (1988). “M. Butterfly”, p.58, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Sorry, Hate, Faces

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• I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children.

  Colson Whitehead

  Children, Technology, Clouds

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• I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Change, War, Generations

  Woodrow Wilson (1919). “Addresses of President Wilson”

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• It's a power that I can't explain. As it flows and it grows and it shapes my faith. There've been hundreds of moments I can't deny. When it brushe against the fire or dwelt in the Fire of God.

  Kenneth Copeland

  Fire, Shapes, Flow

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• I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.

  John Kricfalusi

  Hate, Humor, Style

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