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• 85% of modern music doesn't have a damn thing to do with music. It has to do with looking good. Name me one woman on the top ten right now who isn't absolutely smoking hot. You think that's a coincidence?

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Thinking, Names, Smoking

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• Comedy is the only form of entertainment where the audience doesn't know what to expect. In an evening, you might get ten comics doing ten different things. That's not what happens when you go to hear music. There isn't a classical performance followed by a hoedown followed by rap.

  Jon Stewart

  Rap, Might, Evening

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• Advil has a candy coating. It's delicious. Then it says on the bottle, do not have more than two. Then why do they have a candy coating? I cannot help myself. Let me have ten Advil, I have a sweet tooth.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Sweet, Humor

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• A doctor says to a man, "You want to improve your love life? You need to get some exercise. Run ten miles a day." Two weeks later, the man called the doctor. The doctor says, "How is your love life since you have been running?" "I don't know, I'm 140 miles away!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Running, Love Life

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• That's stupid. If anyone sees themselves in ten years they're lying to themselves first.

  Lil Wayne

  Lying, Stupid, Years

  "Lil Wayne: The Uncut Q&A". Interview with Devin Friedman, www.gq.com. January 13, 2009.

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• I think having a good agent is key. I've been with mine for ten years now, and she's very honest with me. There are a lot of times I've sent her books that were not so good because I was tired of writing, or panicked about money, and she's told me flat out, "You don't want this to be your next book. Trust me."

  Sarah Dessen

  Book, Writing, Tired

  Source: cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com

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• Pastoring the flock with words. I love that. We always have a prayer time in the middle of our service. We take about eight or ten minutes before I preach, after we've sung, and invite people to come forward for prayer. That's a tender moment to me. I don't preach much in that, but I like to speak to the people.

  Max Lucado

  Prayer, Eight, People

  Source: www.biblestudytools.com

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• I'm tired of the 'can't win against evil' way. I'm sorry, you cannot. They'll run you over. So that is my one big passion. 'Ten Stupid Things People Do to Let Evil Win' - that will be my next passion book. I am angry.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Running, Sorry, Stupid

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• Aldous Huxley took the drug mescaline and then chronicled his experience in the book The Doors of Perception. Now, I don't actually think that's the first thing he wrote: he probably wrote 'my brain is melting' ten thousand times, but it was the book that the critics latched on to.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Book, Humor

  "Is It Bill Bailey?". Comedy, Music, 1998.

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• And then there was my mate who'd just been fitted with a brand new hearing aid. "It's the best in the world", he said. "What type is it?", I asked and he said "ten past twelve".

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Humor, Past

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• Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Book, Humor

  "Chris Rock: Bring the Pain". TV Special, June 1, 1996.

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• Ten years after the Chernobyl accident, and am I the only one that's disappointed? Still no superheros.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Years

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• ... We probably funded a rate of something like one out of ten solo teams.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Solo, Rate

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• If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Might, Firsts

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• The fact that I have a little ten-megapixel camera with me all the time, is way better than having the greatest camera in the world sitting at home on a desk instead of on my shoulder.

  David Burnett

  Home, Cameras, Sitting

  Source: theonlinephotographer.typepad.com

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• Our [American] money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at the wheel. The clever guy will take a half hour to have an accident, and the stupid guy will take ten minutes.

  Bernard Lietaer

  Clever, Stupid, Guy

  Source: www.greenamerica.org

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• I would love to have access to a company like Caterpillar. I would make all their stuff remote controlled and work ten times as fast.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Stuff, Caterpillars, Company

  Source: www.roadrunner.travel

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• When I was ten, my mother told me to write down my feelings. I eventually started writing a book. I wish I'd kept the handwritten text. I recall some of the story, but it was a start into the world of writing.

  Franny Armstrong

  Mother, Book, Writing

  Source: romancing-the-book.com

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• I do increasingly feel like becoming a better writer is about trying to find new ways to solve the same problems over and over again, and I'll maybe be a good writer after I have solved the same problem ten million times.

  Mike Young

  Trying, Way, Becoming

  Source: atticusreview.org

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• Dedication and time management are two of the biggest things. I hate being late for anything. If anything, I prefer to be ten minutes early rather than thirty seconds late. I'm also very dedicated and I want to do my best in everything I do. I believe swimming has helped transfer that into my life as well.

  Liam Tancock

  Hate, Believe, Swimming

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Nothing is ever solved, or created, by standing still. Movement is the process of the Universe. So move. Do something. Anything. But do not stand still. Do not fence sit. Put your foot down on one side or the other, swing the opposite leg over and start walking. You'll know before you take ten steps if you're going in the right direction.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspiring, Moving, Swings

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Sep 23, 2012

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• I knew Deng Xiaoping when he came out of prison. He had, after all, been imprisoned for nearly ten years by Mao. I know what China looked like before he took over, and so in my own mind, I don't think of Deng Xiaoping as an oppressor. I think of somebody who, faced with that crisis, made a very painful and decision with which I cannot agree. But I also think of him as a great reformer.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Thinking, Years, Decision

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Chinese military budget today is officially listed as, I think, about $15 billion. But even if you double it, that's only a tenth of ours. So the possibility of China challenging the United States for the next ten years over the Pacific is next to zero. There could be a conflict between us and China over Taiwan, but I think that, too, will not occur with the proper policies on both sides.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Zero, Military, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I had made a list of about ten things that I remembered from the original 'Total Recall' before I went back and watched. It had been about twenty years. I wanted to write it out before I watched it again. And I felt if those things stayed with me long enough, those are the things that I wanted to highlight.

  Len Wiseman

  Writing, Years, Long

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• The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is. It's like, "If the movie was an episode of Battlestar Galactica with a guest appearance by the Smurfs and everyone spoke Dutch, the graphic novel is Citizen Kane with added sex scenes and music by your favourite ten bands and everyone in the world you ever hated dies at the end." That's how much better it is.

  Warren Ellis

  Sex, Book, Bad Ass

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