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• What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Thinking, People, Age

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• Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

  Brooke Burke

  Who I Am, Understanding, Okay

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• Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.

  Jonathan Cain

  Band, Littles, Testing

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• If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

  Nick Clegg

  Opportunity, Keys, Trying

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• Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bomb of terrible consequences. Christopher Hitchens didn't care about the consequences of smoking cigarettes. Tragically, he died of throat cancer in December 2011.

  Ray Comfort

  Cancer, Thinking, Smoking

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• I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Real, Golf, Play

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• You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.

  Buddy Hackett

  Growing Up, Boys, Years

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• Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Cancer, Stronger, Cockroaches

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• I loved Rent when I first heard it, but it grew on me and so did Tick, Tick... Boom. Some songs are more interesting than others and sometimes the ones that never stood out at first end up being the best to perform.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Song, Interesting, Firsts

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• When the United States of America does things in its best interests, it is hated. I'm sorry, that just ticks me off.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sorry, America, United States

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• When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Wedding, Race, Sound

  "Dearly Beloved". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1962.

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• I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people tick. Writing a story... 'The Giver' or any other... is simply an exploration of the nature of behavior: why people do what they do, how it affects others, how we change and grow, and what decisions we make along the way.

  Lois Lowry

  Love, Book, Writing

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• But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever penned this body of work was firstly well-travelled, secondly a multi-linguist and thirdly someone who had an innate knowledge of the inner workings and the mechanisms of a very secret and paranoid Elizabethan court. Edward de Vere ticks those three boxes and many more. William of Stratford gave his wife a bed when he died [his second best bed].

  Rhys Ifans

  Reading, Wife, Secret

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I don't ever want to go backwards, I quite like it. I like the freedom and I like the - What I set out to do was to make a big action-adventure movie that ticks all the boxes in terms of audience expectations and spectacle, and yet also make a very personal film and it feels like I've gotten away with that, I've managed that.

  Joe Wright

  Adventure, Expectations, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• There is a very special place in the Australian psyche for sport. It is one of the pillars of the Australian way of life. You don't really understand what makes the Australian nation tick unless you understand the great affection Australians have for sport.

  John Howard

  Sports, Special, Pillars

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• When did they start coming after you?” “Was it—was it after the oil- slick Hummer crash?” the Gasman asked Iggy tentatively. My eyes widened. Oil-slick Hummer crash? Iggy rubbed his chin, thinking. “Or maybe it was more---after the bomb,” the Gasman said in a low voice, looking down. “I think it was the bomb,” Iggy agreed. “That definitely seemed to tick them off.” “Bomb?” I asked incredulously.

  James Patterson

  Eye, Thinking, Voice

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• Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know many mathematicians who are far abler than I am, but they have not been so lucky. An illustration may be given by considering two miners. One may be an expert geologist, but he does not find the golden nuggets that the ignorant miner does.

  Louis J. Mordell

  Math, Two, Illustration

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• Fling yourself at life and let yourself feel what you do feel upon the very tick of the second; snatch the images of life that fly through the brain. If you are very frank with yourself and don't mind how ridiculous anything that comes to you may seem, you will have a chance of capturing the symbols of your direct reactions. Thus, you will, perhaps, find yourself reaching a heightened sense of awareness completely outside the realm of mundane experience.

  Mina Loy

  Brain, Finding Yourself, Mind

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• Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point, desire as brief as a dream, the grief and terror that after childhood we cease to express.

  Mavis Gallant

  Dream, Grief, Childhood

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• The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

  David McCullough

  Luck, Human Nature, Humans

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Heroic, Mercy, Said

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• Tell me what ticks you off, and I will tell you what makes you tick.

  Lloyd John Ogilvie

  Character

  Dr Lloyd John Ogilvie (1985). “Making Stress Work for You”, W Publishing Group

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• Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.

  Candace Bushnell

  People, Stories, Remember

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• Everybody ticks differently, but family is very important for me.

  Curtis Joseph

  Important

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• At AT&T, I learned an awful lot about people, and how important it is to have the right people in the right jobs. And when I say 'right people,' I'm not talking about their college degree or work history; I'm talking about things like bearing - How does this person interact with other people? Can he or she talk to you and not tick you off?

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Jobs, College, Talking

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