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• The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

  Tori Amos

  Growing Up, Keys, Choices

  "Tori Amos: 20 years after her solo debut". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. October 5, 2011.

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• The key thing about any fund is to make sure its expenses are low. You know, if you look at the funds in your plan and you see that they're all charging 1.5 and 2 percent,you've gota bad plan.

  William J. Bernstein

  Keys, Looks, Lows

  "A Young Person's Guide To Getting Rich Slowly". Interview with Robin Young, www.npr.org. June 16, 2014.

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• Neither of us are workaholics. I think the key thing is to accept that if you only exist through what you do, then you become what you do, and this is very wrong.

  Vincent Cassel

  Thinking, Keys, Workaholic

  Source: collider.com

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• The key thing in management is goal setting. In medicine, goal-based approach is particularly important. Management should be aimed at minimizing health damage and, with a high degree of correlation, at reducing mortality

  Abel Aganbegyan

  Keys, Medicine, Goal

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• Once you do embark upon the separation or divorce process, it is very important to remember three key things: Be kind, be reasonable, be brief. Remember that this person will no longer be your spouse, but he or she will continue to be your co-parent, family member and perhaps business partner in certain assets or entities.

  Laura Wasser

  Divorce, Keys, Parent

  "Laura Wasser, Celebrity Divorce Lawyer, Shares Top 10 Rules Divorcing Couples Should Follow" by Ashley Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2013.

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• Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist.

  Terence McKenna

  Dream, Thinking, Keys

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• On every level of human life, compassion is the key thing.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Keys, Levels

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• The key thing is, don't worry about if anyone is reading you or not. Figure out your voice and figure out what you want to write about, what you're good at, what you like doing.

  Will Leitch

  Reading, Writing, Keys

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• One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask for permission. You can negotiate and you can bring people on board and you can build a base but you can't expect for it to be given.

  Rachel Holmes

  Keys, People, Feminism

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.

  Tom Hanks

  Keys, Should Have, Play

  "Q&A: Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks pay tribute to a pilot who had to act quickly in 'Sully'". Interview with Rebecca Keegan, newsok.com. September 7, 2016.

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• If you read history, right, if you read [Mikhail] Gorbachev's memoirs, Gorbachev memoirs said the key thing in winning the Cold War was our insistence on nuclear defense, because they knew they couldn't match us.

  Rudy Giuliani

  War, Winning, Keys

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There's a lot of great Olympians, but for me, I try to prove myself as one of the best - and that's the key thing.

  Usain Bolt

  Keys, Trying, Prove

  "Q&A with Usain Bolt: Protests, doping scandals, post-track life... and wings". The ESPN.com Interview, www.espn.com. September 24, 2016.

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• That was one of the key things - when you asked the story about the writing of the story - one of the things we wanted to make sure was that it grew out of.

  Matt Reeves

  Writing, Keys, Stories

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• When thinking about how to deploy kind of professional and social networking into your business, it's really not a question of if, it's a question of when. And the reason is, just think about the fact that those businesses that adopt new technologies to operate efficiently and use them to get a competitive edge are the businesses that in fact, you know, it becomes one more competitive advantage. Whether it's a fax machine or a mobile phone or a new way of doing financing or any of these things, you know, these are key things to do.

  Reid Hoffman

  Technology, Thinking, Phones

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The key thing for a CEO to keep their head in the game is recognize that there's turbulent times, plan for, you know, bad luck as well as good luck, keep people focused on what the key, you know, business wins are, and you know, provide the energy that people always need in order to, you know, to go into battle because, you know, work is hard and go into work and do that well. And provide a good leadership beacon for that. In other words, it's the same thing that makes good leadership in any other time.

  Reid Hoffman

  Good Luck, Winning, Keys

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The key thing that I find that when you're kind of in boom times and you're hiring bunches, if you can hire, you know, always maintain very high standards and even if you, you know, can't find enough of, you know, what is typically called A players, then don't hire the people. All right? So, you know, use that as a way of standards.

  Reid Hoffman

  Player, Keys, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The key thing is confidence, and you get that from the actions that you take. It can be anything from getting chicks, being in a fight, having success at work, having a good family. A lot of that stuff comes from having confidence, so that's one of the biggest things.

  Urijah Faber

  Fighting, Keys, Stuff

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• The key thing is to get that one splash - that one song or that one video for a song - that catches people's eyes. Because it's all digital content now.

  Denis Leary

  Song, Eye, Keys

  "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll: Denis Leary on Season 2's Hamilton Parody". Interview with Matt Fowler, www.ign.com. June 29, 2016.

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• One of the key things is to encourage people to have a go in the kitchen and not to be embarrassed by it. Try and spend a couple of nights a week cooking something up. It doesn't have to be complicated, it can be something really simple.

  William Katt

  Couple, Simple, Night

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• The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.

  Douglas Engelbart

  Keys, Digital Revolution, World

  "Intelligence in the Internet Age". New York Times, September 19, 2005.

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• The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.

  Dave Eggers

  Couple, Keys, Light

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• The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”“The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.”“In 20 or 30 years, you’ll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.”“The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment they can tolerate.”“The key thing about all the world’s big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don’t get collectively smarter, we’re doomed.

  Douglas Engelbart

  Writing, Keys, Hands

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• I was really unfit last year, so I worked out for a long time, then spent time by myself in Oregon.  For about two months the only person I saw was my trainer.  Every day I did a lot of running and I just didn’t want to talk to anyone for two months.  So when I started talking again, it was like you would communicate wrongly, like you wouldn’t really remember how to speak.  That was one of the key things as well as just reading the book, reading the script a million times, just figuring things out.

  Robert Pattinson

  Running, Book, Reading

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• The key thing is to ensure that we give the criminal-justice system the tools it needs, so that women's rights are turned into reality. It is not enough to say domestic violence is a crime ?- in order for the laws to be successful, lawyers and courts must have the necessary means to prosecute it.

  Jon Kyl

  Mean, Successful, Reality

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• The really strong key thing always comes direct to your heart. Even if it's a visual thing it doesn't come to your eyes! Even if it is a listening thing it doesn't come to your ears, it goes directly to your spirit!

  Hiromi

  Strong, Heart, Eye

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