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• When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?

  A.C. Grayling

  Believe, Reading, School

  "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

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• I toyed with making portraits based on people's discarded shopping lists found on the street, or old diaries bought on eBay, or other forms of borrowed stories. When I stumbled across the Missed Connections listings, I knew immediately I'd found it.

  Sophie Blackall

  Ebay, Shopping, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet or purse and refer to it often.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Twenties, Want, Purses

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• Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Mistake, Book, Names

  A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial

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• I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming - or buying software - on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.

  Ted Nelson

  Believe, Garbage Cans, Differences

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• I do try to plot about a chapter ahead once I get going. I have a list of upcoming scenes with little notes about them. But sometimes the story changes and I don't end up following that.

  Pamela Clare

  Trying, Stories, Littles

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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• Louisville, Colorado, which was just voted by CNN and Money magazine as the best place to live, is a veritable Whitopia that is unaffected by the housing crisis and even the severe recession. You look at the best places to live, according to Money's 2009 list, and 9 of the 10 are Whitopias.

  Richard Benjamin

  Cnn, Colorado, Louisville

  "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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• One of the challenges of educating especially poor people of any color on conservation and environmental issues is that poor people have a list of priorities that are more immediate quality of life issues.

  Jerome Ringo

  Color, Issues, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't need a president with a bucket list!

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, President

  "Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger - London, New York, Johannesburg". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• I romanticized domesticity for a while, and loved having a shopping list of groceries stuck to the fridge for the first time.

  Liberty Ross

  Shopping, Firsts, Groceries

  "Kristen Stewart's 'humiliated' boyfriend Robert Pattinson moves out, wife of Rupert Sanders bemoans 'isolation' from husband". www.foxnews.com. July 26, 2012.

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• Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Groups, Different

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• Designing a tour is a daily thing.
  I work on it every day for several months. I’m involved with every department, from lighting, sound, music direction, the visual direction. The set list is something I create myself and that’s the root of everything

  Shania Twain

  Roots, Design, Sound

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• I've always loved fantasy. I've always loved sci-fi. It's not like I can list off my favorite sci-fi shows or movies, but I just love being taken into a different world. I'm a huge fan of Steven Spielberg. I'm a huge fan of George Lucas. I've always loved it.

  Ksenia Solo

  Taken, Love Is, Fans

  Source: collider.com

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• Purity is not about following a list of rules so that you'll avoid hell. It's about wanting heaven for the person you love.

  Jason Evert

  Heaven, Hell, Purity

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• Cute. I'm on the waitlist to beta a new product, and have been offered the chance to move up in the list if I tweet about it. Not doing so.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Cute, Moving, Chance

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• If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.

  Jeff Bridges

  Okay, Like Me, Hooked

  Interview with Jen Chaney, voices.washingtonpost.com. December 16, 2010.

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• People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Stars, People, Proud

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• Stephen had just come from a class discussion in which several students believed that the right cup of herbal tea would save them from pain and sorrow. Well acquainted with pain and sorrow, Stephen did not contribute to the discussion. He merely crossed these idiots off his list of possible friends.

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Pain, Class, Tea

  Caroline B. Cooney (2008). “What Janie Found”, p.100, Laurel Leaf

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• Would you like to cross another item off this list today?" "I should like that very much. Which do you propose?" "I think it's time to try riding astride". "You can't mean..." "Oh, but I do, indeed, mean, Empress.

  Sarah MacLean

  Mean, Thinking, Trying

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• All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Cooking, Special

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.

  Diana Ross

  Order, Years, Parent

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• The truth is I'm a dork. I collected comics. I still love cartoons. I'd rather be at home on a Friday night than out at some club… My sense of humor is that of a geek. My likes and dislikes are that of a geek. I've memorized every crappy sci-fi movie there is, but still haven't seen Schindler's List.

  Nathan Fillion

  Friday, Home, Night

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• Some of the things that I do, I think are very important and much more important than the radio show or the television show that I do or anything else that I do. I think right at the top of the list is the basic thing. And of course the basic thing is to hopefully stop people from killing anything. And to create a non-violent diet for themselves, because a non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet.

  Casey Kasem

  Thinking, Roots, People

  "Casey Kasem, voice of Shaggy in Scooby Doo, dies on Father's Day at 82" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2014.

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• I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea.

  Holly Marie Combs

  Husband, Thinking, Names

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• I'm an actress, model and athlete, and I'd put athlete third on the list.

  Serena Williams

  Athlete, Actresses, Thirds

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