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• You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

  Bill Gates

  Thanksgiving, Friday, Monday

  "Inside the Mind of Bill Gates". Book by Shaun Green, September 5, 2014.

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• Sourav's greatest asset is his ability to communicate. He is a naturally very confident person. He encourages his team, is a great motivator and a born captain. He is not the media's blue eyed boy because he is a very straightforward person, who never minces his words, instead he talks in a no nonsense manner to the press. He shares an extremely healthy rapport with his teammates. His leadership skills are also vouched for by the youngsters in the team. He has phenomenal brand value. He's the new-age Indian, an aggressive go-getter, full of self-belief, determination.

  Ravi Shastri

  Determination, Team, Boys

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• It's not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing. Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn't. I always want the action to be witty. I don't want it to be merely routine.

  Adrian Hodges

  Witty, Sound, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, rather because it wishes to be art. However much the writer might long to be straightforward, these virtues are no longer available to him. He discovers that in being simple, honest, straightforward, nothing much happens.

  Donald Barthelme

  Art, Simple, Long

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• But the biggest challenge overall was narrowing down the complex narrative elements into a clean and straightforward story while maintaining a sense of the cultural context that makes the film special.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Challenges, Special, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The mistake many people make when they go to a bespoke tailor is they often think they need to do something special - either an interesting design feature, or a particularly interesting or unique-looking cloth. I say do the opposite. Stick to something really simple, because this will be a suit that you will really want to wear, so start with something very straightforward and you will get an enormous amount of joy wearing it.

  Patrick Grant

  Mistake, Simple, Thinking

  "Recognize Craftsmanship". Interview with Daniel Barna, www.askmen.com.

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• Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres.

  Franz Kafka

  Office, Trying, Horror

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.21, Schocken

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• If I do manage to come up with a scheme [to naming], however, I stick to it, which is why my cats are named after gods-Loki and Athena, who are, respectively, absolutely straightforward and affectionate, and dumber than dirt. I learned my lesson. I will name my next cat 'Satan' or 'Marduk' or something, thereby ensuring a kind, gentle beast who treats my upholstery like a shrine.

  Ursula Vernon

  Cat, Names, Lessons

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• My process is surprisingly straightforward. I find myself with little to do over a stretch of time and I say, "I should write children's books today." Then I sit down and write a children's book, and if it takes more than, realistically, three hours, I feel like I've done something wrong.

  Michael Ian Black

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Michael Ian Black on his surprising turn as a noted children's book author". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

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• All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for the effects on the workers, environment, and future generations. We have a straightforward proposal: if they want public money, we want public control. It's that simple.

  Derrick Jensen

  Simple, Suffering Of Others, Want

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• In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that's the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer's delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn't be moaning.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Nurse, People, Kind

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• It's hard to see a river all at once, especially in the mountains. Down on the plains, rivers run in their course as straightforward as time, channeled toward the sea. But up in the headwaters, a river isn't a point where you stand. In the beginnings of the river, you teeter on the edge of a hundred tiny watersheds where one drop of water is always tipping the balance from one stream to another. History changes with each tiny event, shaping an outcome that we can only fully grasp in hindsight. And that view changes as we move farther downstream.

  Lynn Culbreath Noel

  Running, Moving, Views

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• Quite often there's a great deal of disagreement within the executive branch about what we should do. Some cases are pretty straightforward, but a lot of them aren't.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Branches, Executive Branch, Should

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• One thing is a fairly simple and straightforward thing. I don't long to direct. I really want to get some good parts.

  Geena Davis

  Simple, Long, Want

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. (But) I always remember that it's the fantasy, the artistic side, that makes customers want to buy the straightforward black pants.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Black, Balance

  "Alexander McQueen obituary" by Imogen Fox, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2010.

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• The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It's rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Simple, Mind, Adults

  Milton H. Erickson (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy”, p.79, Ardent Media

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• Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Eye, Doubt

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.104, Ravenio Books

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• I love you.” His voice was straightforward, affectionate. “You make me remember who I used to be. You make me want to be that man again. Right now, holding you, I feel like we have a shot at beating all odds and making it together. I’m yours, if you’ll have me.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Love You, Men, Odds

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence; Finale”, p.1093, Simon and Schuster

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• When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them. I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics.

  Frank J. Tipler

  Christian, Dream, Atheist

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• What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Artist, Thinking, Talking

  "Annie Leibovitz Puts Down Camera, Talks". Interview with Dave Weich, emerald.tufts.edu. November 23, 1999.

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• I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.

  Cory Monteith

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force, but as the state loses this weapon, other devices are required to prevent the ignorant masses from interfering with public affairs, which are none of their business… the public are to be observers, not participants, consumers of ideology as well as products.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Government, Ignorant Masses

  "Force and Opinion". Article by Noam Chomsky, chomsky.info. July, 1991.

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• The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.

  Philippe Halsman

  Special, Technique, Photographer

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• ...,the will of God for your life is pretty straightforward: Be holy like Jesus, by the power of the Spirit, for the glory of God.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jesus, Spirit, Life Is

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• The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that graduallu receded. What that definition left out was the body blow that loss inflicts, as well as the temporary madness, and a range of less straightforward emotions shocking in their intensity.

  Gail Caldwell

  Grief, Sadness, Loss

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