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• Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield.

  Melissa Gilbert

  Mother, Daughter, Son

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Remember that for every technique you think you can fall back
  on, there is a counter for it, or there are times when it cannot
  be used. When real battle comes, you must remember that
  some things will not be applicable. Don't think that any one
  technique is quintessential.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Real, Fall, Thinking

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• The only rule was that the stuff had to be funny and pretty short. To me, the quintessential Army Man joke was one of John Swartzwelder's: 'They can kill the Kennedys. Why can't they make a cup of coffee that tastes good?' It's a horrifying idea juxtaposed with something really banal-and yet there's a kind of logic to it. It's illuminating because it's kind of how Americans see things: Life's a big jumble, but somehow it leads to something I can consume. I love that.

  George Meyer

  Coffee, Army, Men

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• Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks deeply, with the soul of a student. He moves with grace from a world of waving sea kelp to the world of sustainable design, bringing nature's wisdom into the board rooms of global companies, to the design tables of the engineers and designers who make our world. This is more than a business book, more than a memoir, more than a new way to solve global challenges. It's a book about a new way to think.

  Janine Benyus

  Moving, Book, Thinking

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• Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche and spirit are not so exempt from the natural domain that they can simply produce self-change instantaneously, on demand. Wisdom precipitates through a notoriously slow apparatus of retorts and flasks, and it has to find receptive ground only in a properly seasoned mind.

  Kenny Smith

  Wisdom, Self, Mind

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• Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

  John Berger

  Village, Emigration, Metropolis

  John Berger (2014). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos”, p.45, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.

  Gerhard Richter

  Believe, Essentials, Tasks

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• Cynie Cory roams the outer reaches of the heart’s territory, from the snowy winter of family life to the tropical jungles of love. She wears her heart on her sleeve and it is as big as the country she writes about. Is she the quintessential American girl? You bet she is, part Annie Oakley, part Emily Dickinson—sharpshooting poet of wild nights. She zooms in on the detritus of love—the broken fragments, the fallen leaves—and puts together a collage that is as heartbreaking as it is beautiful. Watch out—she’s driving down your street.

  Barbara Hamby

  Beautiful, Girl, Country

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• My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef.

  Jacques Pepin

  Mother, Thinking, People

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• Anger is the quintessential individual-signature emotion: I am what makes me mad.

  Gina Barreca

  Anger, Mad, Signatures

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• I enjoy playing a quintessential antihero. There's something therapeutic about playing such characters. I know it sounds corny but I feel like I learn about myself when I play that characters.

  Vin Diesel

  Character, Play, Sound

  "Vin Diesel Talks Finally Getting the Sequel Made, Going “Bare Bones” for Creative Freedom, and More on the Set of RIDDICK". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2013.

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• Craving that old sweet oneness yet dreading engulfment, wishing to be our mother's and yet be our own, we stormily swing from mood to mood, advancing and retreating-the quintessential model of two-mindedness.

  Judith Viorst

  Mother, Sweet, Swings

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies.

  Morgan Freeman

  Heart, Acting, My Heart

  "Mo People: Morgan Freeman. Morgan Magic". Interview with Alex Gorton, www.mandarinoriental.com.

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• I always think of "Popeye" and "Barney Google" as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Google, Way

  Source: www.mixedmartialarts.com

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• I always say African American history is the quintessential American story. It's about perseverance and resilience - something everyone can relate to.

  Philip Freelon

  Perseverance, African American, Resilience

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think the reason why I'm so alluring to networks is because on the surface I'm like a quintessential relatable, boring white guy. A great many sitcoms have been anchored by a boring white guy, so I feel like what they want to mine from me are my more generic qualities.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Thinking, White, Guy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.

  Sara Shepard

  Wall, Glasses, Castles

  "A Page-Turning Cure For Holiday Family Drama". Interview with Casey Gueren, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 11, 2011.

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• The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

  Evelyn Waugh

  Unique, Youth, Lost

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• The courage to press on regardless - regardless of whether we face calm seas or rough seas, and especially when the market storms howl around us - is the quintessential attribute of the successful investor.

  John C. Bogle

  Successful, Sea, Storm

  "A Tale of Two Markets". Speech at the Trinity University Policymaker Breakfast Series, www.vanguard.com. April 16, 2001.

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• Riddick is an antihero. He's the quintessential antihero. We all know how much I love antiheroes. It takes you 45 minutes in the movie just for Riddick to understand the word "heroism," let alone for anyone to hope that he can be heroic.

  Vin Diesel

  Heroism, Heroic, Minutes

  Source: ellisbenus.com

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• My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.

  Joshua Mohr

  Art, Rocks, Lovely

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think one of the reasons movies are the quintessential modern art form is that it is partially a business. The director needs a crew - the writer, the producer, etcetera - and to have that, he needs money.

  Roger Corman

  Art, Thinking, Directors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do.

  John Wesley

  Art, College, Clue

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• The quintessential feminine Self stands at the center of the psyche and it is wild, meaning natural and free, and utterly wise. It is not 'something' we must strive to create. This Self is already fully present, burning strong and waiting for us to come into its presence.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Wise, Strong, Self

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• The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is as historically important to humanity perhaps even more so as Gutenberg 's invention of the printing press.

  L. Neil Smith

  Exercise, Humanity, Important

  "Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. June 20, 2010.

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