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• One thing my mom used to tell me was to look to the other side, and know that my present is not going to be everything. So if I'm having a bad day, she goes, 'Just imagine tomorrow. This is going to be over. This is going to be done with.'

  Tyra Banks

  Mom, Bad Day, Looks

  "Tyra Banks Talks Body Peace!" by Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. September 13, 2011.

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• I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

  Brian Selznick

  Art, Thinking, Art Is

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• There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

  Paolo Sorrentino

  Rome, Sublime, Shifting

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

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• For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  People, Fit, Mould

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• One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.

  Yohan Blake

  Hate, Talking

  "Olympics 2012: Yohan Blake aiming for brilliance rather than Usain Bolt" by Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2012.

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• Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. (“Death Ship”)

  Richard Matheson

  Knowing, Dying, Ships

  Richard Matheson (2017). “The Best of Richard Matheson”, p.93, Penguin

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• Autumn is the very soul of metamorphosis, a time when the world is poised at the door of winter - which is the door of death - but has not yet fallen. It is a world of contradictions: a time of harvest and plenty but also of cold and hardship. Here we dwell in the midst of life, but we know most keenly that all things must pass away and shrivel. Autumn turns the world from one thing into another. The year is seasoned and wise but not yet decrepit or senile.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Wise, Autumn, Winter

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.141, Macmillan

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• The one thing that Via Dolorosa has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

  David Hare

  Curiosity, Opinion, Valuable

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• There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.

  Dennis Prager

  New York, War, Evil

  "Moral Equivalence and Muslim Violence" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2010.

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• If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Would Be, Hints, Fool

  "Dr John Briffa assesses Sebastian Faulks' shopping basket" by John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.

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• Our workers, our American people who are already struggling, are going to continue to struggle until we can get somebody who can bring some business sense to Washington D.C., and I think that is the one thing I bring.

  Bobby Schilling

  Struggle, Thinking, People

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• Anyone who is suffering from shame and public humiliation needs to know one thing: You can survive it... You can insist on a different ending to your story. Have compassion for yourself. We all deserve compassion, and to live both online and off in a more compassionate world.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Compassion, Suffering, Different

  "The price of shame". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2015.

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• Those who know in their hearts that they are not really necessary -- and are entirely replaceable-- must inevitably be tempted to misrepresent the nature of their work and build up a false notion of its importance. A further alienation from truth takes place, a further loss of contact with reality. And one thing we can be sure of is that self-deception, whether on the level of the wind and the rain or on that of spiritual reality, must always come up against the real sooner or later, and that its destruction is very painful.

  Charles le Gai Eaton

  Spiritual, Real, Rain

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• Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like.

  David Sedaris

  Struggle, Ignorant, Useless

  David Sedaris (2010). “When You Are Engulfed In Flames”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook.

  Diane Mott Davidson

  Skills, California, Cooking

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• One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Military, Worry, Intellectual

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• One thing I learned in the NBA is that the No. 1 job of a general manager is to keep his job. They are only 30 positions where you make millions and hang around with basketball players all day.

  Mark Cuban

  Basketball, Jobs, Player

  "Online Extra: Mark Cuban: Watch Out for 'Ultrabroadband'". Interview with Peter Elstrom, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• For me, my criteria for making films is all about trying to do something different from the last time. So if I catch myself doing too much of one thing, I'm always trying to move away from that, because it's not going to be challenging enough to keep my attention and focus.

  Queen Latifah

  Moving, Always Trying, Focus

  "Queen Latifah Talks Ice Age: The Meltdown". Interview With Brian B., movieweb.com. March 29, 2006.

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• History has got a lot to do with unique circumstances under certain particular cases and grand theories will always find counter cases. I don't think that people whose expertise lies in one thing should try to make grand theories about something (a) where it's very hard to get the evidence to prove that you're right and (b) where it's much too easy to make up stories that seem right.

  Richard Lewontin

  Lying, Unique, Thinking

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• If I put myself on the side of those who see the world as warming up in a bad way, who see the general march of industrial culture as something undesirable, the one thing I must be beware of doing and which my colleagues on that side don't beware of doing, we must beware of saying we've got to stop changing the environment. There is no 'the' environment which we can change, the world is changing all the time.

  Richard Lewontin

  Culture, World, Way

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I don't think George Bush is a good president by any imagination, but when he said, 'If you're talking to Al-Quaeda, we want to know what it's about,' it just proves one thing: If you're president long enough, you will one day say something that is true.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, Talking, Long

  "CONTEST: Win Prizes from Real Time with Bill Maher!". Interview, movieweb.com. August 24, 2006.

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• Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.

  Mick Jagger

  Musician, Wells

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• The one thing I never did, I was never strict in my techniques. I might have pretended in the past at times that I did work serially, or something like that, but I never did, it was always I let my ear tell me what to do.

  Richard Meale

  Past, Might, Technique

  "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. January 25, 2003.

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• Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or academic books or nonfiction books is that you don't get to hear the person's voice; you don't get them as individuals. You get a few quotes and you hear them as sort of a case study: numbers, examples, anecdotes, maybe a paragraph here, and that's about it.

  Dave Eggers

  Powerful, Book, Voice

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• One thing I love is to stop doing. When I just STOP and start looking, I enter a state that is much more dreamy, and find I look at things quite differently. It seems like a change in scale - both very close up, and simultaneously very distant.

  Amy Hardie

  Love Is, Looks, Things I Love

  "The Edge of Dreaming". Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2010.

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