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• High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun.

  Michael Keaton

  Fun, Thinking, Brain

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• My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Thinking, Opposites, Next Day

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• The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

  Gene Weingarten

  Writing, Thinking, Aspiring Writers

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• Let me get one thing straight; I'm not an authority on sex, I'm more of a fan. I think sex is nice; no family should be without it. Of course, there are other things that are just as important as sex, like uh . . . like uh . . . like . . . uh . . . well, I'll think of it later.

  George Burns

  Funny, Sex, Nice

  George Burns (1989). “How to live to be 100--or more: the ultimate diet, sex, and exercise book”, Plume

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• There is only one thing I want to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence.

  William Howard Taft

  Mistake, Thinking, Ohio

  Speech before the Ohio Society, Washington, D.C. "Congressional Record", Volume 53, p. 8527, May 23, 1916.

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• I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you're not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not.

  Gus Van Sant

  Real, People, Feelings

  Interview with Madonna, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 3, 2010.

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• Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

  Jalal Talabani

  Reality, Thinking, Wishful Thinking

  Interview with Jim Muir, news.bbc.co.uk. April 18, 2005.

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• If there's one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me.

  David Hobson

  Garden, Essentials, Surprise

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• One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.

  Antonio Banderas

  Want, Clear

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• Well, one thing you can say for masturbation... you certainly don't have to look your best.

  Mart Crowley

  Sex, Looks, Masturbation

  Mart Crowley (2003). “The Band Plays: The Boys in the Band [and Its Sequel] The Men from the Boys”, p.10, Taylor & Francis

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• The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.

  Larry Kramer

  Media, America, People

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• One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.

  John Paul Stevens

  Years, Law, Judging

  Bush v. Gore (dissenting opinion) (2000)

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• The Universe is a pretty big place... And the one thing I know about nature is it hates to waste anything. So I guess I'd say if it is just us, an awful lot of space is going to waste. The earth is not alone, it is not like a single apple on a tree; there are many apples on the tree, and there are many trees in the orchard.

  John Burroughs

  Hate, Moon, Apples

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• One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Suffering, Principles, Purpose

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• If there's one thing I can't stand it's a hero without a cause. People like that just make trouble so that they can solve it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hero, People, Causes

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• One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Thinking, Pigs, Together

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• The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly wrong. For one thing, many of them were inventors who had come into business that way.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Self, Way

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.

  Umberto Eco

  Pain, Animal, Heaven

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.

  Edward Burns

  Dad, Cop, Wells

  Interview with Maya Singer, www.ign.com. March 9, 2001.

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• I can't cook. I don't have the right brain for it, somehow. I can't walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted. I pick up one thing and I start looking at it. And my cooking is truly heinous.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Cooking, Brain, Rooms

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• In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

  Ariel Gore

  Happiness, Block, Home

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• If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two.

  Julian Baggini

  Fun, Two, Cynical

  "In praise of cynicism" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2013.

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• One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.

  Mike Singletary

  Decision, Want, Ifs

  "49ers take different path, fire play caller Raye" by David White, www.sfgate.com. September 28, 2010.

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• One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

  John Grisham

  Watches, Soapbox, Want

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• It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Religious, Speech, Charming

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