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• A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Military, War, Planning

  Address before the National Association of Manufacturers, New York City, December 8, 1967.

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• Never say never. The things that you dont plan are the best. Im a very spontaneous person.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Spontaneity, Never Say Never, Plans

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• When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.

  Doris Day

  Would Be, Use, Want

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• One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.

  Bruce Lee

  Mean, Power, Important

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.119, Tuttle Publishing

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• If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen.

  Alice Cooper

  Want, Spontaneity, Anything Can Happen

  Interview with Mike Quigley, September 1969.

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• Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

  Claudia Christian

  Spontaneity, Applause, Crew

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• I'm a Pisces, and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been way too sensible for my own good.

  Billy Corgan

  Inability, Our Actions, Way

  "Smashing Pumpkins: SPIN’s ‘Mellon Collie’ Cover Story, ‘Zero Worship’". Interview with Craig Marks, www.spin.com. October 23, 2015.

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• Film is an avenue that I really want to explore more. I’ve learned that my personality is quite impulsive and spontaneous, so the idea that I could play a character for six months and then play something else immediately after is really appealing to me.

  Crystal Reed

  Character, Play, Ideas

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• Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears. Love lives the moment; it's neither lost in yesteryear nor does it crave for tomorrow. Love is NOW!

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love Life, Love Is, Expression

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• Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.

  Charles Lamb

  Spring, Heart, Simplicity

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1854). “Talfourd, T. N. Life and letters”, p.38

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• Celibacy can only be spontaneous, there is no other type of celibacy. If it is not spontaneous, it is not celibacy. You can force it. you can control your sexuality, but that is not going to help. You will not be celibate, you will be only more and more sexual. Sex will spread all over your being. It will become part of your unconscious. It will move your dreams, it will become your motivation in dreams, it will become your fantasy. In fact, you will become more sexual than you ever were before. You will think more about it and you will have to repress it again and again.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Sex, Motivation

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• Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services does not signify freedom if these goods and services sustain social controls over a life of toil and fear – that is, if they sustain alienation. And the spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the controls.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Choices, Toil, Doe

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.10, Routledge

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• Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact... the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

  William Carlos Williams

  Different, Use, Demand

  William Carlos Williams' detail and prosody for his poem "Paterson" given to James Laughlin (now at Houghton Library), 1939.

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• Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. Of course, it would be best if you could actually sing with your own voice. The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. Therefore, the challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument or 'voice' that is outside of your body. I love that challenge and have for over forty-five years. As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

  Stan Getz

  Art, Piano, Years

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• 'WHEN two lovers are making love, and if they are both no-selves, nothingness, then a spontaneous pleasurable sensation happens. Then their body energy, their whole being, loses all identity; they are no more themselves - they have fallen into abyss. But this can happen only for a moment: again they regain, again they start clinging. That's why people become afraid in love.'

  Rajneesh

  Love, Self, Two

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• Any damn fool can be spontaneous.

  Ezra Pound

  Fool, Damn, Be Spontaneous

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• The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Joy, Fascination

  "The Fascination of What's Difficult" l. 1 (1910)

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• From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response.

  Terry Eagleton

  People, Political, Everyday

  "Those in power are right to see multiculturalism as a threat" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2007.

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• I like being prepared. When things are going on and I have to learn my lines at the last minute, I'm never quite secure enough to allow it to be spontaneous. So the more prepared I am, the more I'm able to kind of let it go . . .

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Let It Go, Lines, Able

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• If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their own. The fact that they do not, despite their being surrounded by print, suggests that learning to read is not a spontaneous or simple skill.

  David Elkind

  Education, Children, Simple

  David Elkind (2009). “The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition”, p.36, Da Capo Press

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• With comedy, I like to not rehearse and just have fun with it, because I think being spontaneous is the best thing for a comedy, in my opinion.

  Diora Baird

  Fun, Thinking, Comedy

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• Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from spontaneous, everyday events--the mailman at the door with a package to open...all of which need adult interpretation. They are real events of interest and concern to babies and young children....By contrast, infant education is artificial and out of context.

  Sandra Scarr

  Education, Baby, Children

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• Sense of humor. A girl who doesn't take themselves too seriously. And someone who is spontaneous. They're the three things for me that really attract me to a girl.

  Christopher Egan

  Girl, Three, Sense Of Humor

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• No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.

  P. D. James

  Letters, Individual, Form

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• It's fitting, then, that we begin this exploration of ourselves and of the world with music, and more specifically with a musical quality called vibrato. This pulsation that wells up within the sounded note can lead us to what is most spontaneous and creative in human life, and possibly even to deeper mysteries--to powers of knowing and doing which we have lost or given away during the epoch of civilization, and which perhaps we may now regain.

  George Leonard

  Civilization, Knowing, Creative

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