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• Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

  Philip Johnson

  Cities, People, Challenges

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• Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.

  Adam Levine

  Yoga, Different, Persons

  "Yoga for Men: Adam Levine, Rocker Yogi". Interview with Dana Meltzer Zepeda, www.womenshealthmag.com. June 24, 2008.

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• I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.'

  Alan Dershowitz

  Tombstone, Boring

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• Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.

  Harlan Coben

  Fall, Needs, May

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• The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.

  Tom Brokaw

  Book, Generations, Greatest Generation

  "Tom Brokaw signs on for two more books". www.today.com. January 31, 2005.

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• The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

  Thomas Sowell

  Way, Economy, Explanation

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.97, Basic Books

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• In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

  Samuel Butler

  Circles, Squares, People

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”

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• I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  People

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• Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

  Uma Thurman

  Business, Crazy, Nuts

  Interview with Laura Yorke, Reader's Digest, July 2006.

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• When you go out of your comfort zone and it works there's nothing more satisfying.

  Kristen Wiig

  Comfort, Comfort Zone, Zone

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

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• If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

  A. N. Wilson

  Inspirational, Writing, Annoyed

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• I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two people and they say, 'Great job, Mayor,' that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn't find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling - I think they should see the doctor.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, Real, Mean

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• I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

  Carrie Fisher

  Powerful, Writing, Sometimes

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2011.

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• The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.

  Ken Follett

  Fun, Research, Firsts

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• I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.

  Damon Lindelof

  Thinking, Lord, Trilogies

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  My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

  Malcolm X

  Life, Education, Book

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

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• Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, Fun, Mistake

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• There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it's just by signing an autograph. A child's smile is worth more than all the money in the world.

  Lionel Messi

  Children, World, Way

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• For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

  Doris Lessing

  Work, Age, Lasts

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• One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

  Vivien Leigh

  Thinking, Play, Greater

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• I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

  John Legend

  Artist, Singers, Working With Others

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• I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

  Ang Lee

  Thinking, Process, Movie Making

  "TalkAsia" with Andrew Stevens, www.cnn.com. October 26, 2007.

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• Certainly, people can get along without siblings. Single children do, and there are people who have irreparably estranged relationships with their siblings who live full and satisfying lives, but to have siblings and not make the most of that resource is squandering one of the greatest interpersonal resources you'll ever have.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Children, Sibling, Single Child

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• The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.120, Delphi Classics

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• What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.

  Radhanath Swami

  Oneness, Way, Spirit

  "Becoming Hindu and Finding the Essence of All Spiritual Paths" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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