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• After a Canadian has been referred to a specialist, the waiting list for gynecological surgery is four to 12 weeks, cataract removal 12 to 18 weeks, tonsillectomy three to 36 weeks and neurosurgery five to 30 weeks.

  Walter E. Williams

  Waiting, Three, Four

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• It's a very selfish time. When I'm here at home, my responsibilities are far greater. I'm forced to be way more selfless. My priorities are so far down the list that it's hard to see them. And yet, when I'm on tour, I basically have to get the show right, every night, but the days are really constructed around selfish activities for self-improvement, or not. That's where I feel guilty because I know that life is going on full-speed when I'm not around.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Selfish, Home, Responsibility

  Source: collider.com

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• No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Humility, Needs, May

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• The idea that hunting is one against one is ludicrous. It's one animal versus the hunter, the manufacturer of the rifle, the bullet maker, the designer and manufacturer of the telescopic sight, the auto manufacturer who made the car the hunter got to the edge of the wild in, the maker of his waterproof shoes, the various manufacturers of his mittens, glasses, overcoat - and that's only the beginning of the list. The "sportsman" who shoots an animal should then make a speech, like the actor who wins an Oscar does, thanking the multitudes behind the scenes who made this "victory" possible.

  Dick Cavett

  Hunting, Animal, Winning

  Dick Cavett, Christopher Porterfield (1974). “Cavett”

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• If the principle is, "Let's not get lethal substances out to the public", the first one you'd go after is tobacco. The next one you'd go after is alcohol. Way down the list you'd get to cocaine, and sort of invisibly low you'd get to marijuana.

  Noam Chomsky

  Marijuana, Alcohol, Principles

  Dialogue with trade unionists, February 2, 1999.

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• To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.

  Randy Pausch

  Small Steps, Helping, Break

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.171, Hachette UK

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• No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.

  Robert Genn

  Discipline, Needs, Matter

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• I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.

  Phyllis A. Whitney

  Writing, Character, Order

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• That just sounds so funny, A-list. Really, I'm a mom, and that's how I'm going to be all my life.

  Angelina Jolie

  Mom, Sound

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• I do listen to a lot of music. Actually, I very often ask directors if they can offer up a play list. They very often have one anyway that they're listening to.

  Dan Stevens

  Play, Listening, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• David Ayer was put on my map, at that point, and I always kept note and clocked his career. When he started directing, I saw Harsh Times, I saw Street Kings and I saw End of Watch. I gave my agents a list of directors that I wanted to work with, and at the top of that list was David. I wanted to have that experience.

  Joe Manganiello

  Kings, Careers, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• The key to becoming a more efficient leader isn't checking off all the items on your to-do list each day. It's in forming the habit of prioritizing your time so that you are accomplishing your most important goals in an efficient manner.

  John C. Maxwell

  Keys, Goal, Leader

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• Start a 'Stop Doing' list. I'll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your To Do list

  James C. Collins

  Tasks, Existential, Dilemma

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• I tape my list of goals, both large and small, above my bed so I can see them when I wake up. This holds me accountable.

  Chris Solinsky

  Goal, Bed, Tape

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• The time I spend in the morning - praying, sipping coffee, and coming up with my list - is a ritual I relish. I have done it for so long now that I subconsciously measure whether or not the things I'm doing match with what I should be doing, what I want to be doing, and the life I want to live.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Morning, Coffee, Long

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• I would say that there exists a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves-we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together, we are each other's destiny.

  Mary Oliver

  Stars, Destiny, Feet

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• Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Mind, Happy Thoughts

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• What makes our marriage holy, what makes it "set apart" and sacramental, isn't the marriage certificate filed away in the basement or the degree to which we follow a list of rules and roles, it's the way God shows up in those everyday moments - loading the dishwasher, sharing a joke, hosting a meal, enduring an illness, working through a disagreement - and gives us the chance to notice, to pay attention to the divine. It's the way the God of resurrection makes all things new.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Giving, Everyday, Roles

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• If you, like me, lived through 1973-74 or even the early 1990s... There was a waiting list to get OUT of the country club - that's when you know things are tough. If you live long enough, you'll see it.

  Charlie Munger

  Country, Long, Waiting

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• Any job that posts a price list for your body parts is a bad job.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Jobs, Body, Posts

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• [A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Enemy, Lasts, Pacifist

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• In general, you have great artists who have died far too early and who have left great cultural impact. If you look at people like Vincent van Gogh or Jean-Michel Basquiat-there's a long, long list of artists who have died in tragic circumstances, and far, far too early.

  Simon de Pury

  Artist, Impact, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The attraction of being wild is living on the edge, living up to the reputations of the people you've been following or emulating. People are always talking about how wild and exciting they were, but the key word is 'were', because there's a long list of dead, famous people.

  Christian Slater

  Keys, Talking, Long

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• It should be noted that people in the free market rarely bear false witness; integrity is the rule. The morning mile, phone calls, planes the airlines buy, autos by the millions - no one could list the instances - are as represented. We have daily, eloquent, enormous testimony that the Ten Commandments can be and are observed by fallible human beings. Contemporary politics is the most glaring of all exceptions.

  Leonard Read

  Morning, Integrity, Phones

  "The Complete Works of Leonard E. Read". 1976.

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• A few public hangings will really change behavior. One of our Presidents said if he could execute three people each year for no cause, it would make it a lot easier to govern. When someone said that's not enough, he said, "Oh yes it is, because I'd publish the list of people under consideration."

  Charlie Munger

  Years, People, President

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