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• I never much cared for politics. I love policy, and I love international policy in particular. I got to be Secretary of State; it really doesn't get much better than that. I love what I do. I love being a professor.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Love Is, States, Professors

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• If you tried to make a show for every person's particular interest, it'd be impossible because everyone is going to consume it the way they want to. All you can do is try to do an hour that makes sense for all.

  Scott Van Pelt

  Trying, Want, Way

  Source: ftw.usatoday.com

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• Life is too short to be safe and sit still and do nothing. Unless of course that is what God has for you to do in a particular place in your life.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Life Is Too Short, Safe, Places In Your Life

  Source: sara-mincy.blogspot.com

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• But if a peaceful world is beyond politics it is also beyond religions as these presently exist. A change is needed in every phase of human life. This lies mainly in recognition that the micro phase, the particular or national traditions, must find their context and fulfillment in the macro phase, the global or panhuman phase of human existence.

  Thomas Berry

  Peace, Lying, World

  Thomas Berry, Thomas Mary Berry (2006). “Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community”, Counterpoint LLC

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• It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Community, Sin, Crime

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Order, Law, Giving

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• I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Political, World, Duty

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• One of the problems with watching TV is that you've got a fairly low level of language operating all the time. Quite a small vocabulary and really no conceptual or abstract thinking. That's an issue. If you've got a wide vocabulary, you can learn. The complexities of grammar, in themselves, force you to think about time in a particular way. Force you to widen your outlook on the world.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Issues, Vocabulary

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• I got into pastoring because of the art form. I started a church, but I felt the art form needed to be freed for all people. A particular religion over others was never interesting to me. I wanted to talk to people about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.

  Rob Bell

  Art, Mean, People

  Source: www.inlander.com

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• I would start by writing to an adult, maybe a high school teacher, or maybe an aunt or uncle, and writing and telling them why you want to go to a particular university. That's probably what you would actually sound like. Then write your letter to the university, and put those 2 versions in front of you, and look at the difference between those 2 things.

  David Sedaris

  Teacher, Uncles, Writing

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 8, 2014.

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• The Great Depression was not a sign of the failure of monetary policy or a result of the failure of the market system as was widely interpreted. It was instead a consequence of a very serious government failure, in particular a failure in the monetary authorities to do what they'd initially been set up to do.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Serious, Great Depression

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• The central banks cannot control interest rates. That's a mistake. They can control a particular rate, such as the Federal Funds rate, if they want to, but they can't control interest rates.

  Milton Friedman

  Mistake, Want, Interest

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• It's the character identification people remember, it's not so much remembering the movie; they just know that I'm a badass. I was a badass in Chicago before the movies ever came out. I was a badass on the football field - that's why they call me "the Hammer." I don't lean back on one particular picture, because I've done so many of them. But they all have the same common thing: I'm a badass.

  Fred Williamson

  Football, Badass, Character

  Source: torontoist.com

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• There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path. You may remember this "something" as a signal moment in childhood when an urge out of nowhere, a fascination, a peculiar turn of events struck like an annunciation: This is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

  James Hillman

  Philosophy, Who I Am, Childhood

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• Kids absolutely not reading. I think it's because they're so screen-oriented [TVs, computers, smartphones]. They do read - girls in particular read a lot. They have a tendency to go toward the paranormal, romances, Twilight and stuff like that. And then it starts to taper off because other things take precedence, like the Kardashian sisters.

  Stephen King

  Girl, Reading, Twilight

  "A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King". Interview with Ken Tucker, parade.com. May 25, 2013.

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• In a bird's eye view you tend to survey everything and decide on a particular point, then you swoop down and pick it up. In a worms eye view you don't have that advantage of looking at everything.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Eye, Views, Bird

  "Stephen Covey Interviews Grameen Bank Founder Muhammad Yunus". Interview with Stephen Covey, socialbusinesspedia.com. November 1, 2016.

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• A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do.

  Philip Pullman

  Jobs, Angel, Stories

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 2012.

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• I'm superstitious about the paper that I use, for example. I've written all my novels on a paper of a particular size with lines of a particular distance apart and with two holes in the paper for the folder clip.

  Philip Pullman

  Distance, Two, Example

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do. When I tell the story of Cinderella, the sprite does not want me to make it into an allegory of the fall of communism. The sprite would be unhappy if I did that.

  Philip Pullman

  Jobs, Fall, Angel

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• I studied the Bible seriously until I was young teenager. It was always part of our home education: talking about the Bible, arguing about the Bible, interpreting it. So I don't connect prayer or scriptures with any particular religion so it's not a contradiction in my life.

  Patti Smith

  Prayer, Teenager, Home

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

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• In making Achilles and Patroclus lovers, I wasn't trying to speak for all gay men, just as when I write straight characters, I don't claim to speak for all straight people. My job as an author is to give voice to these very particular characters - these two men, in this time, and in this place

  Madeline Miller

  Jobs, Character, Writing

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I don't have a particular style I like, it just changes daily, depending on the mood or the situation. I don't have a style chosen.

  Yesung

  Style, Mood, Situation

  "Date with Super Junior - Interview with Yesung". "Date with" Magazine Interview, Volume 1 (translated), www.twitlonger.com. May 29, 2013.

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• I never write. Never! I do not even remember if I can write … This is a true freestyle in general. I put a beat, I said some stuff, I retain ideas, I do it again, with a particular intonation, I test, and especially I record live.

  Young Thug

  Writing, Ideas, Records

  "We Translated Young Thug’s French Interview So You Don’t Have To" by Carl Lamarre, theurbandaily.cassiuslife.com. September 8, 2015.

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• There is no particular source my stories come from. The stories always seem to be there waiting for me, though sometimes shrouded in mist and fog.

  Jay Neugeboren

  Fog, Waiting, Stories

  Source: www.jewishbookcouncil.org

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• Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in this particular set of concerns. It's all about discovery.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Discovery, Way, Moments

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