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• We [Americans] continue to be harangued by politicians about how Americans must fight this war because we're being attacked because we have freedoms and liberties and women in the workplace and a whole list of ephemera that have nothing to do with this war at all.

  Michael Scheuer

  War, Fighting, Liberty

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Islam is a civilization that is fractured linguistically, ethnically, sectarian-wise, as ours is. What bin Laden has done, though, is to identify a number of issues that are tangible and visceral for Muslims. His indictment list of Western support for Arab tyranny, our ability to keep oil prices too low - at least until recently - our occupation of the Arabian Peninsula.

  Michael Scheuer

  Wise, Civilization, Oil

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you see our best seller list, most of them are books that are given as gifts. They are books you give to flatter somebody.

  John Gimlette

  Book, Giving, Given

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I think the terrorism watch list in the United States went over a million people some years ago.

  Kim Rossmo

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Everyone knows that due process means judicial process, and when John Brennan brings him a list of people to be killed this particular week, that's not due process. That's certainly not judicial process. So there's the fifth amendment. Not even George Bush claimed the right to kill American citizens without due process.

  Ray McGovern

  Mean, People, Citizens

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I tried to make a list of films where there's two men and one woman and I realized there's films like this everywhere.

  Louis Garrel

  Men, Two, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The opportunity to work with women who are at the top of my list of people I'd want to work with and who are my favorite women to watch on screen, was fantastic.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Opportunity, People, Watches

  "Chris Hemsworth: Charlize Theron and Jessica Chastain Hazed Me Harder Than My Brothers". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. March 11, 2016.

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• You've got to be in a place where you can put your guard down. I've got a long list of things I consider to be selling out. But amongst that list, one of them is when you make art without putting your guard down.

  Devendra Banhart

  Art, Long, Selling

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• UNESCO provides protection for the great cultural institutions. There is something called the intangible cultural heritage list. And the Italians want to put Neapolitan pizza on it. But in order to do that, you have to show that whatever it is that you're trying to protect is under threat. And pizza is totally under threat from Pizza Hut and Domino's...

  Peter Sagal

  Order, Trying, Heritage

  "Panel Round One". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. March 12, 2016.

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• Without a doubt, Robert Rodriguez is the reason I was drawn to it. The fact that he even knew who I was and then was interested in me for the role was amazing. I am a huge fan of his and it's like a bucket list thing for me to be able to work with him and knowing that Jessica Alba and Jeremy Piven were in it I knew that part was going to be good and as you said, the pedigree of the series was great, so it was really one of those things I couldn't resist.

  Joel McHale

  Knowing, Doubt, Roles

  "Tribute talks to Spy Kids star Joel McHale". Interview with Alexandra Heilbron, www.tribute.ca. August 8, 2011.

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• I've been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I'm not a mathematician only. I'm a professor of physics, of economics, a long list. Each element of this list is normal. The combination of these elements is very rare at best.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Yale, Long, Normal

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There's a lot of health information available on your smart phone. There's financial information. There's your conversations, there's business secrets. There's an enormous long list of things that there's probably more information about you on here than exists in your home, right. Which makes it a lot more valuable to all the bad guys out there.

  Tim Cook

  Smart, Home, Phones

  Source: time.com

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• I've been nominated four times, never won. And the whole world is going, `Why hasn't Winslet won one?' That's why I'm doing it. "Schindler's Bloody List," "The Pianist," Oscars coming out of their ass.

  Ricky Gervais

  World, Four, Oscars

  "'The Office' Star Ricky Gervais Back with 'Extras'". "Day to Day" with Noah Adams, www.npr.org. September 22, 2005.

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• Don't just write a to-do list write a to-be list.

  Karen Salmansohn

  Writing, Advice

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• ...Registering guns is like sending a list of your household valuables to a burglars' guild. Why invite - guarantee - a visit.?

  Kenneth W. Royce

  Gun, Guarantees, Guilds

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• In all planning you make a list and you set priorities.

  Alan Lakein

  Focus, Priorities, Time Management

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• Climbers seem to forget that we said in our introduction that there were simply '50 classic routes', not 'the 50 classics'. We chose 50 from a list of about 120. Only a torturer will ever pry loose from our lips the names of those other 70 classics.

  Steve Roper

  Funny, Climbing, Names

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• People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.

  Brendon Burchard

  Long, People, Track

  "Motivation: 3 Themes for 2013" by Brendon Burchard, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2013.

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• Name ten thousand reasons why you never want to die, go and tell someone who might've forgotten. Try to list the endless reasons why it's good to be alive, and then just smile for a while about them.

  Paul Baribeau

  Names, Trying, Might

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• One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.

  Alan Lakein

  Wisdom, Secret, Use

  Alan Lakein (1974). “How to get control of your time and your life”, Signet Book

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• In 2005, the Global Language Monitor-a nonprofit organization that does exactly what its name suggests-issued a tongue-in-cheek list of the year's most politically correct words and phrases. Top

  Kevin Dutton

  Years, Names, Organization

  Kevin Dutton (2011). “Split-Second Persuasion: The Ancient Art and New Science of Changing Minds”, p.121, HMH

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• And so in 1975, the grizzly bear was put on, as I said - on the endangered species list as threatened. And new measures were taken, for instance, bear-proofing garbage, creating new regulations to - essentially to try and keep people and people's food away from the bears, let the bears adjust to eating the abundant wild food that's available in Yellowstone and allow them to be more wild, to be independent of humans as sources of foods for the good of both sides. And that has been quite successful.

  David Quammen

  Taken, Independent, Successful

  "Is Yellowstone National Park In Danger Of Being 'Loved To Death'?". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. June 10, 2016.

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• If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list.

  Robert Barry

  Reading, Writing, Trying

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I like a lot of good European films, good - anything really. I'm a big fan of Netflix and I get films from them all the time. If I hear about something that I don't know, that I haven't seen, forgot about, I immediately jot it down and add it to my Netflix list or if there's a film that's available that I haven't seen for many years, I get that.

  Robert Barry

  Years, Fans, Netflix

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• There are lots of things that you can go down the list and say, "Oh, these are cliches, we've seen this before, just hits every checkpoint." All of that takes a secondary status for me if I'm reading something and I just really like the characters.

  Paul Rudd

  Reading, Character, Cliche

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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