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• My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

  Nigel Dennis

  Shy, Firsts, Nocturnal

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• Ideas are easy to come by, they spring effortlessly out of the vacuity of the mind and cost nothing. When they are held and projected onto one's self or others they become a project. When the project is enacted it becomes the work, and when the work is completed it appears to be self-existent. Creation is the process of form manifesting from emptiness, where that which arises from the mind comes into existence. Yet the distance between conception and realisation may be enormous, as vast as the distance between the stars.

  Robert Beer

  Stars, Spring, Work

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• We sell to an affluent demographic, so it is important for us to project a professional image.

  Brad Gillis

  Important, Affluent, Demographics

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• Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

  Majora Carter

  Justice, Environmental, Development

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2008.

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• I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in knowledge which this one had. I have confidence in the equipment, the planning, the training. I suspect that on a risk-gain ratio, this project would compare very, very favorably with those to which I've been accustomed on the past 20 years.

  Neil Armstrong

  Future, Past, Years

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• A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a symphony. Mozart suggested that a symphony was rather an ambitious project for a beginner: perhaps the young man might better try his hand at something simpler first. "But you were writing symphonies when you were my age." the student protested. "Yes, but I didn't have to ask how."

  James Keller

  Music, Writing, Men

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• If Rosie’s mother had known that eye colour was not a reliable indicator of paternity, and organised a DNA test to confirm her suspicions, there would have been no Father Project, no Great Cocktail Night, no New York Adventure, no Reform Don Project—and no Rosie Project. Had it not been for this unscheduled series of events, her daughter and I would not have fallen in love. And I would still be eating lobster every Tuesday night.
  Incredible.

  Graeme Simsion

  Daughter, Mother, New York

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• Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do.

  Esther Perel

  Identity, Who We Are, Today

  Esther Perel (2009). “Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set in World War II, but thats a little way off yet.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  War, Race, Fiction

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• There are no secrets on an successful software project. Both good and bad news must be able to move up and down the ptoject hierarchy without restriction.

  Steve McConnell

  Moving, Successful, Secret

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• I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

  Terrence McNally

  Surprise, Turns, Know How

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• As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological extinction.

  Murray Bookchin

  Nature, Persistence, Long

  "Toward an Ecological Society". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1980.

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• Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.

  Paul Haggis

  Writing, Matter, Guts

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• Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it; but it finds its truth if it considers itself as a free engagement of thought in the given, aiming, at each discovery, not at fusion with the thing, but at the possibility of new discoveries; what the mind then projects is the concrete accomplishment of its freedom.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Discovery, Accomplishment, Mind

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once -- I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth. It's sort of freeing: I can say I'm abandoning this thing that I hate forever and I'm moving on to something that's good. I'll find that I'll go back to [the other project] in a day or a week and like it again. But that moment of wanting to trash something -- that Virginia Woolf moment when you have to be stopped from filling your pocket with stones -- comes pretty regularly for me. Switching is probably a good thing.

  Dan Chaon

  Hate, Moving, Virginia

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• Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.

  Dionysius Lardner

  Ocean, Future, Moon

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• After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

  David Minge

  Teaching, Special, Minnesota

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• Project X now, but it started as a Hunger Game.

  Joe Budden

  Games, Hunger

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• Netflix has such a knack for giving a new life to those B-movies that you thought and hoped no one would ever see. Especially when you have a new project coming out and they're looking to mine some of your lesser-known films.

  Spencer Grammer

  Giving, Knack, Netflix

  "Q&A: Spencer Grammer on Being TV's Unlikeliest Sexy Detective". Interview with Matthew Kitchen, www.esquire.com. October 9, 2010.

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• It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Rivers, Memorial, Political

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• I see light at the end of the tunnel.

  Walt Whitman Rostow

  Positive, Humor, Vegas

  Walt Whitman Rostow (1955). “Russia and China Under Communism”

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• The trust we build over the years if of tremendous help to me when I start in a new project and need to find associates.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Years, Needs, Helping

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• Not since the multiplication of the loaves and fishes near the Sea of Galilee has there been creativity as miraculous as that of the Keystone XL pipeline. It has not yet been built but already is perhaps the most constructive infrastructure project since the Interstate Highway System. It has accomplished an astonishing trifecta

  George Will

  Creativity, Sea, Pipeline

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• When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.

  Orlando Bloom

  Moving, Play, Guy

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 3, 2005.

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• We've done all the work that HRC wanted on the twin and the project has been completed. We were consistently up there with the top guys and that is what HRC wanted to prove.

  Sete Gibernau

  Guy, Done, Twins

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