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• It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.

  Vash Young

  Men, Goal, Dollars

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• I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.

  Dustin Clare

  Drama, School, Thinking

  "Dustin Clare SPARTACUS: VENGEANCE Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 23, 2012.

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• I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.

  Minka Kelly

  California, Acting, Albuquerque

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

  Rick Bass

  Would Be, Want, Waste

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• Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?

  Patti Smith

  Unanswered Questions, Path, Twisted

  Song: Pissing in a River, Album: Radio Ethiopia

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• It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I’ve done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they’re always poems first.

  Jason Newsted

  Song, Art, Writing

  "New Shoes to Fill". Interview with Erik Fong, voivod.net. April 8, 2003.

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• It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

  Paul Nurse

  Privilege, Might, Sake

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• I'm not saying standardized tests are the worst ever, but there's an in-between and I don't think we're there yet. That's what I mean when I say I have an issue with it. There's no way a kid can learn in a class with 40 to 45 people. I had the power to get out of that system and pursue things that I wanted to do and I did that.

  Ashley Rickards

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

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

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• I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Dream, Children, Creating

  "HoneyLine: My HoneyLine TV Interview With Kid Rock" by abrielle Reece, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in - gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Space, Mind

  "Thinking on Her Feet / Author Rebecca Solnit wrote a book about walking -- while on the move" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. May 02, 2000.

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• But on the other hand, I talked to a woman who was a working woman, and it was actually great for her, because she had her husband one week of the month and the other three weeks, while he was with his other wives, she got to pursue what she wanted to do.

  Jeanne Tripplehorn

  Husband, Hands, Wife

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• I just think it's growth when you pursue something you're not sure you can do.

  Gore Verbinski

  Thinking, Growth, Not Sure

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• For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.

  Christoph Waltz

  Singing, Acting, Opera

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• I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.

  Allison Williams

  Successful, College, Parent

  "Beautiful Minds: 10 Inspiring, Always-Stylish Women". www.elle.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas and pursue our abstract imaginings.

  Belinda Peregrin

  Heart, Love Is, Light

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• Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.

  Steven Levitt

  Mother, Home, Mean

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• People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

  Walter Lippmann

  Self, Expression, People

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• Over the years I've tried to be clear about the things that are important in life, the things that matter, and I've tried to pursue them, and, I've had a certain sense of 'stickability,' hanging in there, and I suppose that's me.

  Peter Hollingworth

  Years, Important, Matter

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• I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn’t really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.

  Rainey Qualley

  Mom, Art, Two

  "Andie MacDowell and Rainey Qualley Prove Mighty Fine". Interview with Alex Simon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.

  Stephen Walt

  Country, Nuclear, Want

  "Can Sanctions End Iran's Nuclear Ambitions?". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 21, 2011.

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• While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of its policy - in face of the determination of the opposing state to pursue a contrary policy. In the human will lies the source and mainspring of conflict.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Determination, Military, War

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• In the Now, there really is no destination. Each moment is lived for its own sake, even as you move toward whatever you many choose to pursue. When you are focused on some outcome or achievement-or are looking forward to the day when you are able to live in conditions that you imagine will be superior to whatever currently exists-your life right now becomes just an interval on the way to the next event.

  Richard Moss

  Moving, Achievement, Events

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• Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of doing this, conservatives allow liberals to pursue incremental goals without revealing their ultimate destination. So, thanks to the negligence of their opponents, liberals control the terms of every debate by always demanding 'more' while never defining 'enough.' The predictable result is that they always get more, and it's never enough.

  Joseph Sobran

  Goal, Wish, Principles

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• Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.

  Horace

  Sleep, Wine, Leisure

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• As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.

  Ovid

  Hawks, Dove, Trembling

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.869, Delphi Classics

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