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• Laughing at something is a form of accepting it or at list making peace with it.

  Ted Alexandro

  Laughing, Accepting, Form

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• If I want to have a conversation, I can't have a list of questions, because the second question on the list is going to interrupt the conversation.

  Michael Silverblatt

  Want, Conversation, Ifs

  Interview with Sarah Fay, believermag.com. June 1, 2010.

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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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• Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity-a remarkable addition to the list of the shockers that the French call roman noirs.

  Anthony Boucher

  Writing, Objectivity, Criminals

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• If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . . . she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.

  Ned Rorem

  Strong, Book, Artist

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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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• When it comes to my own makeup, I like to look fresh, clean, and well-rested-nothing too crazy. My mother really introduced me to beauty. She's obsessed with all of the magazines' 'best of' lists, like the ones in Allure, Glamour, and InStyle. Her beauty cabinet looks like one of those annual lists. She got me into finding staples, and as much as I love going to Neiman Marcus to just play around, generally, when I find something that I like, I stick with it for years.

  Phoebe Tonkin

  Mother, Crazy, Makeup

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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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• A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

  Julien Gracq

  Victory, Literature, Defeat

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• One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously when an A List film star took his life, and the world filled with people saying how shocked and saddened they were.

  Alastair Campbell

  Stars, Believe, Taken

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• This is your court and you possess the force to celebrate the trial and convict me on the basis of your lists of accusations, the public one and the secret one, and you can dictate a sentence prepared by the political and security apparatuses that are behind this trial. But I too possess a will obtained from the justice of our cause and the determination of our people to reject any decision from this 'kangaroo court'.

  Ahmad Sa'adat

  Determination, People, Justice

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• The people of Ontario have a right to know how their dollars are being spent. Ontario has the leanest government in Canada while still providing high-quality public services that people can rely on. Today, we are releasing the 2014 Public Sector Salary Disclosure list as part of our government's commitment to be the most open and transparent government in the country.

  Deb Matthews

  Country, Commitment, Government

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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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• Whenever I see interesting names, I jot them down. I've found them in lots of different places: on the news, in the phone book, even on hotel registry lists.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Phones, Names

  "The Last Book of The Mortal Instruments Series Has Arrived, and It's Full of Juicy Lust and Betrayal". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. May 29, 2014.

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• At the top of this list has to be "get in that ass". It's the ultimate Leonism to get you through life.

  J. B. Smoove

  Ass, Ultimate

  Interview with Charlie Parrish, uk.askmen.com.

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• When I started out jumping around with a tennis racket, I never thought I would end up on a list of the best guitar players in the world. It makes me feel proud of the hard work I've put in.

  Gary Hoey

  Hard Work, Player, Jumping

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• When you're really considering all the qualities of food, purity is right there at the top of the list. I'm unwilling to eat food that has been adulterated.

  Alice Waters

  Quality, Purity, Considering

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Donald Trump's hairpiece has reportedly narrowed its list of running partners down to Don King, Kramer, William Shatner, Dolly Parton and Phil Spector, and has no worries about being upstaged.

  Michael R. Burch

  Running, Kings, Worry

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• The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic.

  Peter Lynch

  Pain, Mistake, Humility

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• One way of building private foresight out of public data is looking where others aren't ... if you want to see the future, go to an industry confab and get the list of what was talked about. Then ask, "What did people never talk about?" That's where you're going to find opportunity.

  Gary Hamel

  Opportunity, Data, People

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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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• As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising on the tenor sax, there would not have been the evolution of the craft by John Coltrane.

  Herbie Mann

  Thinking, Crafts, Evolution

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• Forget your ideas about art. Make a shopping list of everything you like about what you've done. Include qualities that you've seen in your life, in the world, and possibly in art that you like. Take this list and make a work that satisfies all of the things on your list without caring if it looks like art.

  Joseph Kosuth

  Art, Caring, Shopping

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• If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.

  George Orwell

  Book, Gulliver, Six

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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