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• I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the next this or that. It's tough on a young player coming up. You show some positive things and everybody jumps on that and says you should be the next Willie Mays.

  Eric Davis

  Positive, Player, Organization

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

  Mac Davis

  Song, Morning, Memories

  "Interview with singer/songwriter Mac Davis". Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. May 9, 2015.

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• We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.

  Richard Dawkins

  Technology, Space, Brain

  Richard Dawkins (1995). “River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.

  Anita Desai

  Motivational, Disappointment, Book

  Class Interview, www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

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• I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.

  Beth Ditto

  Mean, Thinking, Keys

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• I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Fun, Son, Talking

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• I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.

  Lena Dunham

  Writing, Thinking, Guy

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• I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

  Black Elk

  Summer, Thinking, Years

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Oath Of Office, Years, America

  Rahm Emanuel's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can.

  Enya

  Next Week, Wonderful, Brutal

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

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• There was a time when all I cared about was the next game, the next party, the next tee time.

  Brett Favre

  Party, Games, Tees

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• Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

  William Feather

  Thinking, Honest, Compliment

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• Historically, when Americans don't know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is like: 'What am I going to do now? I'll go to Paris!'

  Craig Ferguson

  Paris, Franklin, Knows

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• I don't see my show as a stepping stone to something else like some people, who get a job then have a foot out the door looking for their next job.

  Craig Ferguson

  Jobs, Doors, Feet

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• I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.

  Will Ferrell

  People, Comedy, Happens

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• I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Stupid, Believe, Guy

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.290, Princeton University Press

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• My whole team, it wasn't about putting the album out, it was about getting off the record company and going independent or going to another label. To the point we were like, 'Listen, just take 'Lasers.' You can have whatever percentage off the next ten records I do for the rest of my life. I just do not want to be here anymore.'

  Lupe Fiasco

  Team, Independent, Lasers

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• I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Stars, Years, People

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• As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.

  Colin Firth

  Want, Stuff, Greedy

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• Don't underestimate the importance of having enough room to work. Grilling is much more relaxing when you are not trying to juggle a whole collection of plates and bowls as you do it. If your grill doesn't have enough workspace - and they almost never do - set up a table right next to your grill.

  Bobby Flay

  Trying, Tables, Rooms

  Bobby Flay (2007). “Bobby Flay's Boy Gets Grill: 125 Reasons to Light Your Fire!”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those people. We want someone who is going to make their own mark on 'Food Network.'

  Bobby Flay

  People, Trying, Want

  "Bobby Flay Talks Career, Passion, and Food Network Stardom". Interview with Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2011.

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• Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.

  Joshua Foer

  Exercise, Long, One Day

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.61, Penguin

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• Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.

  Ben Folds

  Sorry, Couple, Sleep

  Song: The Luckiest

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• Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Time, Leader

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• If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Golf, Night, Play

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