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• I think poetry workshops get a bad rap. I'm sure some aren't good, but in general, I like the format. I try and keep mine pretty informal. Sometimes we have wine or sake, and we read aloud, and we talk.

  Elaine Equi

  Rap, Wine, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• North Korea is making several demands in exchange for giving up their nuclear program, including a promise from America not to attack them. Which is a little strange because for us to attack them we would have to have slam dunk proof that they have weapons of mass destruction. I mean, for Gods sakes people, we're not maniacs. It would have to be an air-tight case. We wouldn't just come in there and start bombing you.

  Jon Stewart

  Giving Up, Mean, Mass Destruction

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• My argument is not that we must never intervene in nature. My argument is that there is a moral difference between intervention for the sake of health, to cure or prevent disease, and intervention for the sake of achieving a competitive edge for our kids in a consumer society.

  Michael Sandel

  Kids, Differences, Disease

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• This is a deep and personal topic in our society today. Read the papers. America is hurting because of it. For God's sake, speak up. Don't we need to learn respect for people's feelings? What is going to school for? To learn how to add?

  Hal Holbrook

  Hurt, School, America

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• Basically, I didn't want to sing anything for the sake of singing it. There were some songs where I really wailed, but because it's such an intimate space anything I chose to sing simply to make sound was going to come off an inauthentic. So I was really happy with where it landed - every song I sang, I loved for one reason or another. I didn't have to worry about selling a song.

  Aaron Tveit

  Song, Space, Worry

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• Having financial independence does not increase one's chances of independent, artistic creation whatsoever. Our conditioned behavior toward mimicry for the sake of market forces is an amazing syndrome. The watchtowers guide us well.

  Fady Joudah

  Independent, Independence, Doe

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's a whole company called Palantir that does nothing but derive and create algorithms riches to search through big data. We're not using their capabilities. For heaven's sake, some of this is just ineptitude.

  Carly Fiorina

  Data, Heaven, Doe

  "Fiorina: Trump is a Clinton Christmas gift, I'm the lump of coal; US doing enough to defeat ISIS?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• I love cooking for men and making love with them'not just reproductive lovemaking but I like sex for the sake of freaking out with men.

  Kola Boof

  Sex, Men, Making Love

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• The proposed liberal solution was always negotiation. Just as they believed in nuclear arms negotiations for their own sake, they believe in a "peace process" without regard to what its consequences might be....It was impossible for any peace plan to fail in their eyes, since lack of progress was nearly always interpreted as evidence that new talks were now "urgent".

  Mona Charen

  Believe, Eye, Progress

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• Most Arabs and Muslims feel that the United States hasn't really been paying much attention to their desires. They think it has been pursuing its policies for its own sake and not according to many of the principles that it claims are its own - democracy, self-determination, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, international law.

  Edward Said

  Determination, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I wasn't making music for the sake of music but rather making music in the context of other music. At the same time, it doesn't mean I'm not going to try and do that some day.

  Kevin Shields

  Mean, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Mark, Historian

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• We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.

  Henry Ford

  Way, Failing, Making Changes

  Henry Ford (2006). “The Great To-Day and Greater Future”, p.65, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

  Steve Erickson

  Fiction, Not Interested, Experiments

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• In fact I wonder if I should bend my own rules a little and for the sake of writing a good song it doesn't have to been so autobiographical, but that's a stupid rule to live by as some of my favourite artists' songs, they have a song that you think is about their life [which] probably even isn't, but it's a great song.

  The Rocket Summer

  Song, Stupid, Writing

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• I think what we took away from first hearing about the punk stuff in England and then the early American punk stuff was a sense of self-definition and also sort of playing music for music's sake and being part of a family for family's sake.

  Ian MacKaye

  Thinking, Self, Playing Music

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• I have noticed that agencies which are full of fun and ferment seem to create the best advertising. If you are not happy in advertising, for goodness sake find a job in which you would be happy. For as far as I know, we pass this way only once

  David Ogilvy

  Jobs, Fun, Agency

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• For reasons known only to him, God has chosen to work through men and women who are willing to make sacrifices for the sake of the "thing" he has placed in their hearts to do. If God bas birthed a vision in you, it is only a matter of time until you will come upon the precipice of sacrifice.

  Andy Stanley

  Heart, Sacrifice, Men

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• When I was younger I could never get up in the morning, I always found it so difficult. If I had an appointment, I had no problem, but just getting up early for the sake of it was so hard, I just loved my bed (and still do!).

  Benjamin Stone

  Morning, Up Early, Bed

  "Benjamin Stone | Interview by Ocean Pleasant, Youth Editor". Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, School, Taught

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If it's just fame for the sake of being famous, no one even cares about you - and you don't even care about yourself because you're like, "This is so ridiculous."

  Mos Def

  Care, Ridiculous, Fame

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.

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• I think because of these big issues of life and death that maybe sex feels like a crass question. But for Christ sake, this is a book that is so interested in an elemental human condition. And one of the ideas about surrender is an erotic surrender, too. These folks are surrendered by destiny; they surrender to each other in certain moments, but there is a lot of erotic surrender.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Sex, Book, Destiny

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I write I'll sometimes say things which are somewhat controversial - not because I'm seeking out controversy for its own sake, but if I don't have anything to say which is different, why am I bothering to write stuff down in the first place?

  Paul Bloom

  Writing, Different, Stuff

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a four-track tape recorder.

  Bucky Pope

  Song, Writing, Track

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others.

  Ben Sollee

  Art, Play, Ideas

  "Ben Sollee Interview | Activism by cello? On a bike?". Interview with Amanda Taylor, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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