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• The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the telephone and say, 'Is this the right place to place my order?' and we proceed right to dictating our order. When we have then ended that list, we hang up.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Thinking, Order, Telephones

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• Between the kids, the jobs and everything, no matter what color you are, cardio is probably not on the top of your list.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Jobs, Kids, Color

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• The productiveness of any meeting depends on the level of thought given to the agenda in advance, and you should never leave a meeting without writing a follow-up list with each item assigned to one person. And go outside. All the big ideas are on the outside. You'll never have a creative idea at your desk.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Writing, Ideas, Creative

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• Well we usually just try to do a mix from all the albums so if somebody just has one they don't get bummed out that they don't hear anything from that record, then a couple songs you'll only hear live. Just kind of wing it you know? And sometimes on a tour you'll get with a set-list you like and you kind of just stick with that.

  Mason Jennings

  Song, Couple, Wings

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• The day it comes out, there's already things that you start to go, 'Oh, I should have done that a little differently.' You start to make a list in your head. I actually write things down -- what I'm going to do next time.

  Howie Day

  Writing, Should Have, Done

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• I myself discovered many authors through school reading lists and through school anthologies. The positives are: young readers can find the world opening up to them through books they study. The negatives may include bad experiences kids have - if they don't like the book or the teacher, or the way the book is taught.

  Margaret Atwood

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Looks, Patterns, Film

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've always thought I had pretty good instincts for people. There is a short list of people I've worked with over my career with whom I've not been able to distinguish easily between the public persona and the real private person.

  Randall Robinson

  Real, Careers, People

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist] Johnny Ramone, these intense tutorials staying up late and listening to the music he grew up on, and picking up what's a great song and what makes a great song. He was all about lists and dissecting songs, like what's a better song by Cheap Trick: "No Surrender" or "Dream Police"? Sometimes you'd be surprised by the answer. It was an interesting dichotomy between hanging out with the godfather of punk rock and starting to play the ukulele. They came together.

  Eddie Vedder

  Dream, Song, Ukulele

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

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• I've been compiling a list of art project ideas for a long time. These are ideas of things I would love to see someday. They range from the practical - jackets with woodstoves in them - to the sublime - images of nuns on waterslides.

  Misha Collins

  Art, Ideas, Long

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I was indicted on two federal conspiracies. My wife was on the Ten Most Wanted list. That's what fascism was going to look like. That's what it did look like.

  Bill Ayers

  Two, Wife, Looks

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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• I've got a checklist of things I want - including a Brit, a Grammy, an Oscar and a white poodle. Sometimes it gets lonely, and I want a baby too! I'm ticking things off the list.

  Joss Stone

  Baby, Lonely, White

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• I'm sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I'm on that list. I'm a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

  Kevin Hart

  Garden, Squares, Groups

  "Up all night with Kevin Hart". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2013.

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• The seminar in economic theory conducted by Hayek at the L.S.E. in the 1930s was attended, it came to seem, by all of the economists of my generation - Nicky Kaldor , Thomas Balogh, L. K. Jah, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, the list could be indefinitely extended. The urge to participate (and correct Hayek) was ruthlessly competitive.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Generations, Hayek, Economic

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• The building housing America's military brass is a five-sided pentagon, but somehow, the people in it still manage to make it the squarest place on earth. The latest evidence? A current military document that lists homosexuality as a mental disorder in the same league as mental retardation - noting, of course, the one difference: retarded people can still get into heaven.

  Jon Stewart

  Military, Differences, America

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• I've been keeping my own naughty and nice list for Washington.

  Barack Obama

  Nice, Naughty, My Own

  "President Obama Says Congress Beware: ‘I’ve Been Keeping My Own Naughty And Nice List’" by Anjali Sareen, www.mediaite.com. November 30th, 2012.

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• All of a sudden I found myself doing things like 'Robot Monster' and 'Cat-Women of the Moon,' and I didn't know what the devil was going on. But if you're going to do areally bad movie, at least you do one that is at the top of the all-time bad-movie list.

  Elmer Bernstein

  Cat, Moon, Devil

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• Everybody has a list of 100 things they would like to change about themselves. But it's all about focusing on the good things.

  Taylor Swift

  Good Things

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• Whatever I thought might hold me back, I avoided. I crossed girls off my list, except as tools for my sexual needs.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Girl, Needs, Tools

  Arnold Schwarzenegger, Douglas Kent Hall (1993). “Arnold”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind.

  David Allen

  Mind, Needs, Reviews

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• The 'Phoenix Sun' did a list of the unsexiest men in the world, and I made it to number one. I beat out Bin Laden. He's a terrorist, hasn't bathed in months. I beat him out. To me it was a great honor.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Men, Phoenix, Numbers

  Interview with John DeBellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2009.

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• There`s only one list that`s more illustrious than the list of directors who won the Palme d`Or. It`s the list of directors who didn`t.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Directors

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• Granny Weatherwas was not a jouster in the lists of love, but, as an intelligent onlooker, she knew how the game was played.

  Terry Pratchett

  Intelligent, Games, Granny

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• Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of a rapidly muttered list of horrific possible side effects. When the ad is over, I can't remember a thing about what the pill is supposed to do, except perhaps cause nausea, liver damage, projectile vomiting, a nasty rash, a four-hour erection, and sudden death. Sudden death is my favorite because there is something comical about it being a side effect. What exactly is the main effect in that case? Relief from abdominal bloating?

  Charles Krauthammer

  Exactly Is, Oddities, Effort

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• In trying to explain our political paralysis, analysts cite President Obama's tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington, and the Senate filibuster, which has devolved into a super-majority threshold for important legislation. These are large factors to be sure, but that list neglects what may be the biggest culprit of all: the childishness, ignorance, and growing incoherence of the public at large.

  Jacob Weisberg

  Ignorance, Political, Important

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