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• There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.

  Natalie Portman

  Thinking, People, Looks

  "Natalie Portman - Cluttered and Loving It". Interview with Ted Demme and Ingrid Sischy, www.oocities.org. March 1996.

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• I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn't like for a long time.

  Miuccia Prada

  Inspirational, Believe, Long

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.

  Paul Prudhomme

  Thinking, World, Chef

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• The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Ideas, Typical, Form

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• I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

  David Schwimmer

  Challenges, Trying, Growing

  "David Schwimmer, 'Madagascar 3' Star, On Why He Wants To Be Part Of The Xanth Movies". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

  Wallis Simpson

  Courage, Sometimes, Offers

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• Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

  David Soul

  Doors, Personality, Risk

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Writing, Two, Familiar

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• Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Creativity, Artist

  "Steve Jobs: seven lessons from Apple's founder" by Frédéric Filloux, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2011.

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• Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Prayer, Lord, Individual

  "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2010.

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• The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Broken Heart, War, Practice

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• So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.

  Duane G. Carey

  Exploration, Wanted, Decided

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• This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.

  Eric Clapton

  Pain, Journey, Mixtures

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• I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.

  Sasha Cohen

  Sports, Challenges, Persons

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• Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

  Stephen Colbert

  Country, Mean, Perception

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. January 25, 2006.

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• You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

  Daniel Craig

  Creating, People, Stealing

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• For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

  Frank Gehry

  Motivational, Work, Sweat

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• I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Creativity, Shooting

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• Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

  Robert Herrick

  Time, Succeed, Doe

  Robert Herrick (1844). “Hesperides Or Works Both Human and Divine”, p.91

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• I love going out and doing new things.

  Bo Jackson

  Going Out

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• Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Opportunity, Thinking

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• People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

  Charles Kettering

  Change, New Beginnings, Long

  Attributed to Charles Kettering in Ben Reed "Future Technology in Law Enforcement" (p. 15), 2009.

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• What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Ideas, Generations, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know if we'd have been as dominant as we were last season. The new things, the new ideas the manager brought in everyone took them on board so well. He is special.

  Frank Lampard

  Sports, Ideas, Special

  Interview With Rob Hobson, www.cfcnet.co.uk. August 10, 2005.

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• I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?

  Buzz Aldrin

  Air, Knowing, Space

  "Buzz Aldrin Reflects on Moon Landing". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 29, 2009.

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