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• The reason I don't drink is that the drinking lifestyle robs me of my musical intensity and sharpness. I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it's sensible or that I'm contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on the music I'm making. To do that, I need to be wide awake.

  Johnny Marr

  Drinking, Focus, Healthy

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• Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

  Saul Bass

  Interesting, Design, Creative

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• I will try to hold on to the intense feeling. I will both be glad that that’s no longer happening and kind of miss it. When you’re 14, you’re basically on drugs all the time - the hormones in your body are so crazy. But I really loved and appreciated the intensity of that. And you’re experiencing everything for the first time, so everything feels like an epiphany. And, like, I really liked the experience of having a crush, because I was like, this is my thing and it doesn’t have to do with you and you’re just some dummy boy for me to project on.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Crush, Crazy, Boys

  "At 18, Tavi Gevinson Is a Fashion Veteran—and a Broadway Rookie". Interview with Amy Larocca, www.thecut.com. August 10, 2014.

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• We want to be in a situation under maximum pressure, maximum intensity, and maximum danger.  When it's shared with others, it provides a bond which is stronger than any tie that can exist.

  Seal

  Ties, Stronger, Want

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• In the back I see many potential legends, some of them with warrior spirits. And you will do the same for them. You will decide if they live with the passion and intensity. So much so that you will tell your stories and you will make them legends as well. I am Ultimate Warrior. You are the Ultimate Warrior fans. And the spirit of Ultimate Warrior will run forever.

  The Ultimate Warrior

  Running, Passion, Warrior

  "Ultimate Warrior Spoke of Death in Final Speech". www.news24.com. April 09, 2014.

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• The new guys bring energy, intensity and emotion. The last couple games, they showed what they can bring to the team.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Couple, Team, Games

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• I've been dancing since I was 6 years old. That kind of relentless dedication and intensity is where I'm comfortable.

  Andrea Anders

  Dedication, Years, Dancing

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• Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity, the sense of aliveness that came from writing fiction. I'm still that way. My life is worth living when I've completed a good paragraph.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Writing, Way, Fiction

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• I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity

  Karl Malone

  Next Day, Work Out, Enough

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• Length is usually intensity.
  Not time.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Length

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• I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.

  Willem de Kooning

  Horse, Pain, Integrity

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• War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.

  Wesley Clark

  War, Hatred, Lasts

  Interview with Laura Knoy, New Hampshire Public Radio, November 5, 2003.

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• I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.

  Henry George

  Home, School, Thinking

  "Beyond the Looking Glass". Book by Colin Gordon (p. 29), 1982.

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• To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.

  Mark Helprin

  Sadness, Mad, Joy

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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• The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Thinking, Destiny, Mirrors

  "The Book of Delusions". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1936.

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• It (the slider) just rolls off of your index finger and begins it's spin which will take it down and across the plate (hopefully). Just remember not to twist your elbow or wrist. It should be thrown, with the wrist and grip set, just like your fastball, slightly off center - with the same velocity and intensity.

  Steve Carlton

  Elbows, Down And, Velocity

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• If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, it piques your interest, and if you make it even longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Bored, Special, Quality

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• Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.

  Philip James Bailey

  Love, Thinking, Might

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.250

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• Scientists will say we can't blame global warming for any single event. In a sense that's right, but the fact that the frequency and intensity of these events is increasing you can blame on global warming.

  James Hansen

  Events, Facts, Blame

  "Global warming activist, former NASA scientist James Hansen speaks out before World Affairs Council of Oregon appearance". Interview with Scott Learn, www.oregonlive.com. April 24, 2013.

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• Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and accept us that way. They enhance our self-esteem because they think we're okay, because we matter to them. And because they matter to us-for various reasons, at various levels of intensity-they enrich the quality of our emotional life.

  Judith Viorst

  Friendship, Self Esteem, Emotional

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• For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.

  Virginia Woolf

  Spiritual, House, World

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.365

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• I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with very great intensity-the greatest intensity of which I am capable-for a few hours or days, and at the end of that time give orders, so to speak (to my subconscious mind) that the work is to proceed underground. After some months I return consciously to the topic and find that the work has been done.

  Bertrand Russell

  Writing, Thinking, Order

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• Day and night will not cease. Yet, you need not continue viewing them as opposites. There is no longer a need to think that night has the same power as day. There is just the power of light, with variations of intensity and interruption. Once the full scope of understanding is attained, duality fades away. Higher intelligence is manifested through integrated perceptions of wholeness which restore your recognition of the one spirit. The sons of God are those who do not explain life or manage it with dualistic concepts. The sons of God are those who seek to perceive wholeness in all things.

  Glenda Green

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Son

  Glenda Green (2002). “Love Without End: Jesus Speaks--”, p.237, Fideli Publishing Inc.

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• For me, laughter is how we take a much needed break from the heartache, such that when we turn to face it again, it has by some miracle grown smaller in size and intensity, yet not disappeared altogether.

  Liz Curtis Higgs

  Inspirational, Hurt, Laughter

  Liz Curtis Higgs (2004). “The Best of Liz Curtis Higgs”, Thomas Nelson

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• Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar sands. Bitumen, the world's ugliest and most expensive hydrocarbon, can never be a reasonable substitute for light oil due to its extreme capital, energy, and carbon intensity. Bitumen looks, smells, and behaves like asphalt; running an economy on it is akin to digging up our existing road infrastructure, melting it down, and enriching the goop with hydrogen until it becomes a sulfur-rich but marketable oil.

  Andrew Nikiforuk

  Running, Oil, Smell

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