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• I've always been lucky in casting. The trick in casting is to hire great people, and let them do what they do, don't interfere with them too much. And then when they're great, take credit for it in the end.

  Woody Allen

  People, Lucky, Credit

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• As you know, birds do not have sexual organs because they would interfere with flight.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Bird, Aviation

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• when I wrestled, I would set aside the time to wrestle, so that in my mind it didn't interfere with my study time. That helped me psychologically. When I'm wrestling, I'm not studying the universe. And when I'm studying the universe, I'm not wrestling.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Wrestling, Mind, Study

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. Ecological systems in nature before we had human beings you know interfere with them exist in a state of stasis - they are self-supporting, self-sustaining.

  Ken Yeang

  Nature, Thinking, Self

  "Q&A: Ken Yeang interview". CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. July 20, 2007.

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• In the natural order no matter what ideals may be theoretically possible, most people more or less live for themselves and for their own interests and pleasures or for those of their own family or group, and therefore they are constantly interfering with one another's aims, and hurting one another and injuring one another, whether they mean it or not.

  Thomas Merton

  Hurt, Mean, Order

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild; it would degrade men without tormenting them. I do not question that, in an age of instruction and equality like our own, sovereigns might more easily succeed in collecting all political power into their own hands and might interfere more habitually and decidedly with the circle of private interests than any sovereign of antiquity could ever do.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Character, Men, Hands

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2015). “Democracy in America - Vol. I. and II.”, p.760, Read Books Ltd

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• We have not been men of prayer. The spirit of prayer has slumbered among us. The closet has been too little frequented and delighted in. We have allowed business, study or active labor to interfere with our closet-hours. And the feverish atmosphere in which both the church and the nation are enveloped has found its way into our prayer closets.

  Bonar Law

  Prayer, Men, Atmosphere

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• I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with regular school hours.

  Essence Atkins

  Children, School, Ballet

  "Essence Atkins - The 'Are We There Yet?' Interview with Kam Williams". aalbc.com.

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• If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

  Randy Alcorn

  Teacher, Children, Mistake

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.609, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Strive, Flavour

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• The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fashion, Money, Men

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• For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind

  Paul Klee

  Understanding, Mind, First Impression

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.212, Parkstone International

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• To those who think that the law of gravity interferes with their freedom, there is nothing to say.

  Lionel Tiger

  Thinking, Law, Argument

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• This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Men, Competition, Different

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• The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.

  John Cowper Powys

  Way, Aliens, Knows

  "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 209, 1929.

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• If they are ignored, [Alice] Callaghan worries, the dangers of handing the streets over to private security forces will only grow. 'Until they begin interfering with the rights of middle-class people,' she says, 'you won't have anybody crying about it. But by then, it will be too late.'

  Ben Ehrenreich

  Rights, Class, People

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• Don't let your brain interfere with your heart.

  Albert Einstein

  Heart, Brain

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• As a matter of principle, we believe patients should be able to see the right doctor at the right time. As a matter of principle, we believe nothing should interfere with that doctor-patient relationship. As a matter of principle, we believe all Americans deserve affordable, available, and reliable quality health care.

  Bill Frist

  Believe, Doctors, Quality

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• It means that Tao doesn't force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Mean, Needs, Done

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• Sex doesn't interfere with your tennis; it's staying out all night trying to find it that affects your tennis.

  Andre Agassi

  Sex, Night, Tennis

  "Sucess isn't all it's cracked up to be" by Lousie France, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2004.

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• There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Grateful, Garden, Vegetables

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.17, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The trouble with good advice is that it usually interferes with our plans.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Advice, Trouble, Plans

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• No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own.

  Jiang Zemin

  May, Affair, Should

  "Hong Kong's new leaders offer reassuring words". www.cnn.com. July 1, 1997.

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• A missionary should never permit himself to see a movie or (read) cheap literature, or hear music that tends to interfere with or which dampens the spirit of missionary work. There is ample evidence that rock music is offensive to the Spirit and affects adversely the spirituality of the missionaries and thus the success of the proselyting work.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Rocks, Missionary, Literature

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• If any one of my players isn’t interfering with play, they’re not getting paid.

  Brian Clough

  Player, Paid, Ifs

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