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• The mantra of the new historicists was "we have betrayed ourselves." Since their emergence, there have been more or less interesting paradigm shifts having mainly to do with Habermas and the increased focus on media studies, but the talismanic word has never ceased to be "history."

  Paul Fry

  Media, Interesting, Focus

  "Originality matters". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 10, 2012.

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• I have a mantra of my own that has helped me through the most chaotic of times. I remind myself that: I am the best, I have the best, and I deserve the best.

  Allison Holker

  Deserve The Best, I Am The Best, Chaotic

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• No one wants to sell to just 12% of the population for the entire length of their careers. It creates a difficult and less-profitable environment. But Hollywood has lived with that limiting mantra, and only a few black stars have managed to break through.

  Russell Simmons

  Stars, Break Through, Careers

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Silent mantra practice helps me respond rather than react.

  Sarah MacLean

  Practice, Helping, Silent

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• I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music. That's my big goal. The larger preoccupation is how do we force cinema to respond to the existential, political, and spiritual dimensions of who we are as a people.

  Arthur Jafa

  Spiritual, Simple, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was raised in a musical family - 5 girls and 1 boy - so all of us girls don't do gender. We were all made to believe that we could do anything we wanted and so we did. One of my early bands was with my sisters. I didn't really come across a lot of problems because I just didn't see it. I took myself seriously and so everyone else did too - this is my mantra.

  Suzi Quatro

  Girl, Believe, Boys

  Source: renownedforsound.com

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• My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That's my mantra.

  Al Pacino

  Kids, Advice, Want

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.

  N. T. Wright

  Church, Demise, Century

  "N.T. Wright: On Jesus and Writing". Interview with Marcia Z. Nelson, www.publishersweekly.com. November 23, 2011.

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• Activism has to remain active. That's the trademark slogan and that's the mantra, because if your foot doesn't stay on the pedal, the car will stop.

  Bethann Hardison

  Feet, Car, Trademarks

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• You honor your writing space by recovering, if you are an addict. You honor your writing space by becoming an anxiety expert, a real pro at mindfulness and personal calming. You honor your writing space by affirming that you matter, that your writing life matters, and that your current writing project matters. You honor your writing space by entering it with this mantra: “I am ready to work.” You enter, grow quiet, and vanish into your writing.

  Eric Maisel

  Real, Writing, Space

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• That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Change, Life Changing

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.44, Prabhat Prakashan

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• "Be courageous and keep moving forward"... that's kind of the mantra that I've tried to keep.

  Jesse Brock

  Moving, Mma, Courageous

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• My mantra is "Better is better".

  David Ayer

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it's important to keep mantras fresh (sometimes the same verse can get stale). That being said, I love this powerful statement: 'Define yourself.' I rehearsed it a million times during the 2005 Chicago Marathon [her first win].

  Deena Kastor

  Powerful, Winning, Thinking

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• All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent - which can be withdrawn at any time.

  Simon Winchester

  Home, Japan, Broken

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• I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which, if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again, or perhaps any twig with any property that we would care to call consciousness.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Soul, Progress, Pedestal

  "Dinosaur in a Haystack". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "Can We Complete Darwin's Revolution?", p. 327, 1995.

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• Socialism, whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot, is all about disindividuation, a steady, relentless erasure of the individual differences among us, everything that makes us who we are. 'Everybody in, nobody out!' is the marching mantra of militant collectivized medicine, but it accurately describes all other aspects of collectivism as well. No alternatives allowed, no choices, no individualism, no individuality, and ultimately, no individuation.

  L. Neil Smith

  Taken, Individual Differences, Medicine

  "Back to the Trees!". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. April 11, 2010.

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• I'm convinced that business success in the future starts with the question, What should I do with my life? Yes, that's right.... People don't succeed by migrating to a "hot" industry (one word: dotcom) or by adopting a particular career-guiding mantra (remember "horizontal careers"?). They thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are--and connecting that to work that they truly love (and, in so doing, unleashing a productive and creative power that they never imagined).

  Po Bronson

  Careers, People, Creative

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• Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji gave the mantra- Insaniyat, Jamhooriyat, Kashmiriyat. He based Jammu and Kashmir's development on this, and we need to take it ahead.

  Narendra Modi

  Kashmir, India, Needs

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• When I teach writing, I have a mantra: Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.

  David Morrell

  Writing, Firsts, Teach

  "David Morrell & Ken Follett Talk About Writing". Interview with Jessica Strawser, www.writersdigest.com. October 8, 2010.

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• It represents a Bible verse I wear on my shoe. Philippians 4:13. It says 'I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.' It's also my mantra, how I get up for games and why I play the way I do.

  Stephen Curry

  Christian, Nba, Games

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• "What's the next thing that's going to kill me?" is a mantra for pilots and astronauts.

  Chris Hadfield

  Pilots, Next, Astronaut

  "Floating Round My Tin Can". Interview with Jacob Aron, www.slate.com. November 16, 2013.

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• If it’s meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Fate, Let Me, Ifs

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.47, Penguin

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• There are sayings and mantras that sometimes occur in filmmaking discussions, and one of them is that sometimes filmmaking is an olive branch or a reason or an excuse to be able to reach out and create an encounter with someone.

  Debra Granik

  Encounters, Olive Branches, Able

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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• It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Police, Guilty, Members

  Ben Aaronovitch (2013). “Broken Homes”, p.8, Hachette UK

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