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• Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental, and stale.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Fall, Writing, Sentimental

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.

  Henry Reed

  Dream, Process, Interpretation

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• Unlike typical romantic comedies, Definitely Maybe is not formulaic or predictable and it spans a decade while being set against a political background. Also, the audience doesn't know who ends up with who until the very end, which makes it a sort of "romantic mystery comedy".

  Isla Fisher

  Political, Typical, Comedy

  "Definitely Maybe - Isla Fisher interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general rules to specific cases, thereby making the actions of government fair and predictable.

  Max Weber

  Government, Defining, Action

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• Michael Kruse made the point that, on the one hand, this seems all totally unprecedented in American politics; on the other hand, it seems somehow utterly predictable in the context of the personality of Donald Trump.

  Susan Glasser

  Personality

  Source: www.politico.com

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• All great tasks test our motivation. It's easy to court ideas over beers and change the world with napkin sketches, but like most things taken home from bars, new challenges arise the next day. It's in the morning light when work begins, and grand ideas (or barroom conquests) lose their luster. To do interesting things requires work and it's no surprise we abandon demanding passions for simpler, easier, more predictable things.

  Scott Berkun

  Morning, Motivation, Taken

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• The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive."

  Fred Ritchin

  Form, Primitive, Repetitive

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I simply can't understand the stereotyping women as film makers who make soppy family dramas. Look at Katherine Bigelow: she has directed Point Break and Strange Days. I hate labels of any kind. Just because you are a woman you can't do this or that? Twenty years ago women entering the work force was enough of a shock. People just like the predictable; they feel safe with it. You know, it's such a bore

  Deepa Mehta

  Drama, Hate, Years

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• I don't like my wrestling or entertainment in general to be too clean or predictable for me as a fan. When I say clean, I'm not talking about dirty jokes, middle fingers and stuff like that. I'm actually not even a big fan of that. A lot of people talk about the attitude era being so great but a lot of it was terrible crap, sex jokes and over-the-top terrible bad comedy. It was Jerry Springer-like. They made a joke about a woman's breasts. Hilarious, but where's the wrestling? I look back on a lot of stuff now, and I'm like where's the wrestling? It's just a lot of crappy jokes.

  Dean Ambrose

  Sex, Attitude, Dirty

  "Dean Ambrose Thinks John Cena’s As Boring And Predictable As The Rest Of Us Do" by Brandon Stroud, uproxx.com. October 10, 2014.

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• I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed.

  David Nevins

  Character, Rich, Shows

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• Giving people what they want reduces us to consumers instead of treating us like citizens, consumers who are on the prowl for the predictable and comfortable. What we want winds up being suspiciously like what we've already got, more of the same-the cultural equivalent of a warm bath.

  Astra Taylor

  Wind, People, Giving

  Astra Taylor (2014). “The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age”, p.93, Macmillan

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• One of the things you don't have in Haiti is you don't have anybody on crack doing something completely out of - that's unpredictable. Even at the worst times in Haiti, the violence that had happened, the lack of security that happened, was largely predictable because it was politically tied.

  Sean Penn

  Cracks, Worst Times, Haiti

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Hollywood's thinking is very typical. And it's just really predictable too. And I think at Hollywood, these box office movies are flopping. I mean, there hasn't been an original thought coming out of Hollywood since the '80s.

  Andrea Tantaros

  Mean, Thinking, Office

  Source: deadline.com

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• The assassination at Sarajevo was certainly the crucial precedent of the European war that its conspirators had sought, but was not the historical cause ... The assassination acted as a lever, prying the various powers into predictable paths.

  J. Bowyer Bell

  War, Historical, Path

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• Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is in an undeniably low-quality situation: that the value of his predicament is negative. This low quality is not just a vague, woolly-headed, crypto-religious, metaphysical abstraction. It is an experience. It is not a judgment about an experience. It is not a description of experience. The value itself is an experience. As such it is completely predictable. It is verifiable by anyone who cares to do so.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Religious, Intellectual, Quality

  "Lila : An Inquiry Into Morals". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1991.

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• It's sadly predictable that the only way you can come up with a way to celebrate the liberation you feel at leaving the old system behind is by coming up with a "system of liberation", as if such a thing could exist - but that's what we can expect from those who have never known anything other than systems and systematizing, I guess.

  Mao Zedong

  Leaving, Way, Anarchy

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• Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love. Eros won't outlast duality. As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Love Is, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Roaming

  Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds”, p.16, John Wiley & Sons

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• A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day’s pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief.

  William Styron

  Insomnia, Patterns, Relief

  William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.

  Phil Bredesen

  Real, Focus, Energy

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• The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

  John Avlon

  Smart, Anger, Talking

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• We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic and predictable. We all make the same types of mistakes over and over, because of the basic wiring of our brains.

  Dan Ariely

  Mistake, Decision, Brain

  "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions". Book by Dan Ariely, February 19, 2008.

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• Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

  Laura Miller

  Fire, Stories, Body

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• A well-managed classroom is a task-oriented and predictable environment.

  Harry Wong

  Tasks, Classroom, Environment

  Harry K. Wong, Rosemary Tripi Wong, Chelonnda Seroyer (2009). “The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher”, Harry K Wong Publication

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• Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

  Tina Weymouth

  Art, Golf, Choices

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• Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks. They are not people whose lives have been calm and predictable. A life under tight control sometimes produces quiet desperation. High well-being is a life that has depth and quality. Risks, losses, problems, and tragedy add pain to a life. That pain becomes a teacher. We learn; the pain gives us no choice.

  Jennifer James

  Teacher, Pain, Loss

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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