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• The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, Suffering, Demand

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  It's better to say too much, than never to say what you need to say again.

  John Mayer

  Needs

  Song: Say What You Need To Say

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• No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

  Philip Levine

  Writing, Hype, Sound

  Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them, you will suit each other very well.

  Lu Xun

  Littles, Suits, Failing

  "The Epigrams of Lusin" in "The Wisdom of China and India" edited and translated by Lin Yutang, New York: Random House, (pp. 1087-1092), 1942.

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• My own view, for what it's worth, is that sexuality is lovely, there cannot be too much of it, it is self-limiting if it is satisfactory, and satisfaction diminishes tension and clears the mind for attention and learning.

  Paul Goodman

  Sex, Self, Views

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• I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds.

  Ashley Olsen

  Men, Mirrors, Body

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• What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.

  John Connolly

  Moving, Self Harm, Writing

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• Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.

  Colin Wilson

  Kind, Laurels, Quicksand

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• Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

  Pliny the Younger

  Finishing

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• If you work in the city long enough, it begins to deal with you on a personal level. Streets reveal their moods. Sometimes the signal light loves you. Sometimes they fight you. When you're hunting for a new building, you hope the city is on your side. You have to use a little bit of thinking--you might call it the process of elimination--and you need a little bit of instinct, but not too much of either. If you think too hard, you overshoot your target and end up at the Pier or the Tenderloin. If you relax and let the city help, the destination does all the work for you.

  Scott Adams

  Love You, Fighting, Thinking

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• Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

  John Lubbock

  Heart, Discouraged, Beaten

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• Too much sparkle can detract from the focal point of the painting, so I blend some areas to tone down the look of the pastels in less important areas.

  Paul Murray

  Past, Important, Looks

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• I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

  James Thurber

  Running, Believe, Men

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• They'll never give me an Oscar. And I sincerely, honestly don't care. I always turn up when I'm nominated and it would be nice to get one, but to win one would be bad luck. It comes with too much expectation. It would be the end.

  Robert Altman

  Nice, Winning, Expectations

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• We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

  John Osborne

  Death, Dying, Months

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• I don't like to put too much effort into things. I find that once you get involved with special effects it is no longer about what is happening in front of the camera and I really want to concentrate on what is happening in front of the camera, like the man apparently peeing on the surface of the screen.

  Steve McQueen

  Men, Effort, Special

  Source: www.artmonthly.co.uk

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• Anything that doesn't make sense, I don't want to give too much of my brain to.

  Steve McQueen

  Giving, Brain, Want

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I don't really care too much about Valentine's Day... I've never had a valentine or anything. I've always just spent it with my friends, so I don't really have much expectation for Valentine's Day.

  Emma Roberts

  Valentine, Expectations, Care

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The best notes are action-based and less, I don't know, heady, theoretical, because, as actors, we're too much in our heads anyway.

  Josh Peck

  Actors, Action, Notes

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I think the difference is that Angelina didn't need any CGI enhancement and I did! You can't really think about some things too much, you just get on with it and do it. It's about the way you move and the way you sound.

  Ray Winstone

  Moving, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think that when you let go and "throw it all away" and stop getting attached and say "whatever happens, happens", you don't invest too much in anything particular, and things work out.

  Chris Pine

  Letting Go, Thinking, Work Out

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Men and women are so alike that a woman must make an intellectual effort to differentiate herself. As soon as one understands who one is, one can disguise oneself any way one wants. As soon as one has found one's look, one's shape, one does not need to alter it too much, in fact I would say that one should not change it.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Men, Effort, Intellectual

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life. Even with aching joints, it's not about food. Even with arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure. It's about your desire to flatten your life. It's about the fact that you've given up without saying so. It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way - and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it.

  Geneen Roth

  Health, Blood, Desire

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Ideas, Scripts, Performances

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters, what are their relationships to each other, and just trying to get a sense of what and who this book is about. Usually around that point of 100 pages, I start to feel like I'm lost, I have too much material, it's time to start making some choices. It's typically at that point that I sit down and try to make a formal outline and winnow out what's not working and what I'm most interested in, where the story seems to be going.

  Michael Chabon

  Book, Writing, Character

  Interview with Elizabeth Benefiel, www.avclub.com. July 5, 2007.

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