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• HR?'
  'Human Resources.'
  'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  Office, Sound, Kind

  Peter F. Hamilton (2012). “Great North Road”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

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• Unlike a mere deception or a simple secret, which gives the impression that something's been taken away, a great magician makes you feel like something's been given to you.

  Jim Steinmeyer

  Taken, Simple, Giving

  Jim Steinmeyer, Teller (2009). “Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear”, p.22, Da Capo Press

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• My style during the day is very casual - boyfriend jeans, T-shirts, Converse, Uggs, whatever. At night, I love heels and thigh-highs, I like something fresh and new, and I'm not afraid to push the envelope.

  Katie Cassidy

  Night, Jeans, Uggs

  "Katie Cassidy Dishes on Gossip Girl". Interview with Dan Koday, www.seventeen.com. October 20, 2010.

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• I have sort of the career where, if you are a fan, you've been following me for a while, and you really like something that I've done, so meeting those people is always a really gracious experience.

  Linda Cardellini

  Careers, People, Fans

  "Linda Cardellini's Return". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2012.

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• I remember when I took the role on E.R., I thought, 'I haven't really been able to play a working class woman. I've played girls, I've played funny, but I haven't played a working class woman. That sounds like something I'd like to do.

  Linda Cardellini

  Girl, Class, Play

  "Linda Cardellini RETURN Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 8, 2012.

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• It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

  Merle Haggard

  Song, Car, Sound

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• I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was talking about. What I really spent my time doing in those years was writing short stories. There were all sorts of interesting courses, but what I really wanted to do was make stories one way or another.

  Wes Anderson

  Philosophy, Writing, Talking

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

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• That's why I sleep alone. My hair is curly, and that's why I have my ponytail. I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Sleep, Hair, Looks

  Interview with Sigrid Agren, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• There's always someone out there telling you your nose is too big or too small, or you're too fat or too thin, or they don't like your hair. In life, there's always going to be someone who doesn't like something about you, so you have to focus on what makes you happy about yourself. You're the only person you need to please.

  Lauren Conrad

  Hair, Focus, Needs

  Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. February 9, 2010.

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• As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.

  Ricky Williams

  Thinking, Ties, Long

  "NFL dropout Ricky Williams chilling in Sierra / He's been found studying the healing arts" by Tom FitzGerald, www.sfgate.com. November 21, 2004.

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• I know how bad a thing it is to be a slave and I know how terrible it was but I don't believe that there's a free person in the whole world that knows how good a cup full of water can taste. Because you have to be a deprived slave, to be kept waiting for your water like we were to really appreciate how good just one swallow can be. When we finally got a drop on our tongues it was like something straight from the hands of the Almighty.

  Walter Mosley

  Appreciation, Believe, Hands

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• "What's that?" the Unbeliever asked.
  "Wisdom from the Western Taoist," I said.
  "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh," he said.
  "It is," I said.
  "That's not about Taoism," he said.
  "Oh, yes it is," I said.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Words Of Wisdom, Taoism, Sound

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• "When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"
  "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"
  "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet . Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
  "It's the same thing," he said.
  "What's that?" the Unbeliever asked.
  "Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said.
  "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh," he said.
  "It is," I said.
  "That's not about Taoism," he said.
  "Oh, yes it is," I said.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Wisdom, Morning, Food

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

  Robert Henri

  Looks, Painting, Canvas

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it.

  Carl E. Olson

  Thinking, People, Tolerance

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• In the 1960s, Robert Venturi and I played a game we called ‘I can like something worse than you can like.’

  Denise Scott Brown

  Games, 1960s, I Can

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• I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Thinking, Upset, Commodity

  "Filmmaker on 'Seeking a Friend's' origins". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.cnn.com. June 23, 2012.

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• If you like something, go for it.

  Elie Tahari

  Ifs

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• I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

  Zoe Kazan

  People, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction.

  Geraldine Jewsbury

  Animal, Fiction, Giraffe

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• Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.

  Ogden Nash

  Writing, Race, Greek

  Ogden Nash (1954). “Many long years ago”

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• If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't, the result will look like something that isn't there.

  Richard Schmid

  Mind, Looks, Conflict

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• We want to stay with the animatronics because it gives you such a wonderful feel of Chucky's movement. It feels like something that has been brought to life, as opposed to a smooth piece of animation.

  David Kirschner

  Giving, Pieces, Movement

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Turkey was fantastic, Turkey was like mystical and such a special place. Just unique, something that's really hard to describe, such beauty, those mountains and the stone is kind of, eroded? Special erosion which makes what you see just something that seems, it's been made for a movie, it's like something out of fantasy except it's real.

  Violante Placido

  Real, Unique, Erosion

  "Violante Placido GHOST RIDER THE SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE On-Set Interview". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 5, 2012.

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• There wasn't a cloud in the sky, no wind, and everything was quiet around us - all we could hear were birds chirping in the woods. The war seemed like something in a faraway land that had nothing to do with us. We sang songs as we hiked up the hill, sometimes imitating the birds we heard. Except for the fact that the war was still going on, it was a perfect morning.

  Haruki Murakami

  Song, Morning, War

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, September 12, 2002.

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