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• Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media.

  Kevin Drum

  Media, Vote, Mainstream

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• Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.

  Dana Reinhardt

  Language, Annoying, Precision

  Dana Reinhardt (2009). “How to Build a House”, p.173, Wendy Lamb Books

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• One thing is certain, whatever choices we make: we will not miss out on some critical purgation by seeking treatment for depression or any other form of physical suffering. If we are ripe for what the dark night brings, God will find a way to bring the process to fruition no matter how hard we try to avoid it.

  Tim Farrington

  Dark, Night, Choices

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• It's hard to see potential in a rough cut - especially with comedy, which is hit or miss. This is where my lack of experience hurt me - not in the execution of the final product, but with my expectations for it in the early stages of post.

  Desiree Akhavan

  Hurt, Cutting, Expectations

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all.

  Ronald Reagan

  Looks, Cost, May

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• If you are stuck only at your culture, you will miss thousands of good things in other cultures; and more importantly, you will miss many truths!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Other Cultures, Good Things, Stuck

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• Trump says that if he's elected, he won't let the presidency interfere with the Miss Universe pageant.

  David Letterman

  Pageant, Trump, Presidency

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• Being punished doesn't mean you should miss out on being loved.

  Shaun Hutchinson

  Mean, Should, Being Loved

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• I just don't want people to think I'm too sweet of a boy; and little miss angel boy, because I'm going to get caught doing somebody horrible.

  Michael Buble

  Sweet, Angel, Boys

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• A street that you have never visited is a book that you have never read! You never know what you are missing!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Book, Streets, Knows

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• Don’t blow your own horn, or you might just miss the music.

  Jim Rohn

  Blow, Might, Horns

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• Most of what I read is for reviewing purposes or related to something I want to write about. It's slightly utilitarian. I definitely miss that sense of being a disinterested reader who's reading purely for the pleasure of imagining his way into emotional situations and vividly realized scenes in nineteenth-century France or late nineteenth-century Russia.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Reading, Writing, Emotional

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find that they miss the condition. I am comfortable with the notion of pattern and ornament as a system of organization, [but] for me it acts as a textile. So it's not about pattern, but the notion of architecture through the lens of textile, rather than architecture through the lens of brick and mortar.

  David Adjaye

  Organization, Bricks And Mortar, Technique

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you never try anything new, you'll miss many of the world's great disappointments.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Disappointment, Trying, World

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• In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth. Someone once told me, "Even when building the imperial palace, they always leave one place unfinished." In both Buddhist and Confucian writings of the philosophers of former times, there are also many missing chapters.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Buddhist, Writing, Giving

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• Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.

  John Muir

  People, Flesh, Drunkards

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.24, Great West Books

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• Too much down time makes us miss home.

  Glenn Tipton

  Home, Too Much, Down Time

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• A couple of things are missing from Indigenous affairs. We tend to go and process, we tend to spend a lot of money for very limited outcomes, and we have got to change that.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Couple, Outcomes, Affair

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• Norfolk would not be Norfolk without a church tower on the horizon or round a corner up a lane. We cannot spare a single Norfolk church. When a church has been pulled down the country seems empty or is like a necklace with a jewel missing.

  John Betjeman

  Country, Jewels, Church

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• Don't miss the moment. It's all we have

  Arianna Huffington

  Moments

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• A perfect smile is too often missing from the faces of the world. If cricket can provide more smiles, it is doing its job.

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni

  Jobs, Perfect, World

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• To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.

  Quentin Crisp

  Blessing, Past, Opportunity

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• You're better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than you are getting there too early all the time.

  Andy Rooney

  Airplane, Bus, Better Off

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• At the end of a movie, all my outfits are missing. They even call: 'Tara, those were $700 shoes.' What are they going to do, search my house?

  Tara Reid

  Movie, Shoes, House

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• If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Looks, Happens, Ifs

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