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• I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Humor, Cutting

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• I get nervous the more time I have to think about something so I deliberately don't give myself too much time between jobs. I take a big break and then I start working again usually.

  Meryl Streep

  Jobs, Thinking, Giving

  Source: the-talks.com

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• Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Art, Pain

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Sonnets”, p.140, Pushkin Press

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• The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Teaching, Suffering

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.

  William James

  Lying, Opportunity, Thinking

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.50, Harvard University Press

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• My music doesn't really sound like punk music, it's acoustic. And it doesn't really sound like folk music 'cause I'm thrashing too hard and emoting a little too much for the sort of introspective, respectful, sort-of folk genre thing. I'm really into punk and folk as music that comes out of communities and is very genuine and very immediate and not commercial.

  Ani DiFranco

  Community, Sound, Littles

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• In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need to do as a journalist is so different. It has to be clear, unambiguous, concise, and as a writer often you are trying to do things that are more ambiguous. I find that writing fiction is often an antidote to reading and writing too much journalism.

  Aravind Adiga

  Reading, Writing, Trying

  "MoJo Interview: Aravind Adiga". Interview with Sonja Sharp, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2009.

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• I said to the waitress, "There's a fly swimming in my soup." She said: "You've got too much soup - he should only be able to paddle."

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Swimming

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• You ever find yourself being lazy for no reason at all? Like, you pick up your mail, you go in your house, you realize you have a letter for a neighbor. You ever just look at the letter and go "Hm. Looks like they're never getting this. It'll take too much energy to go back outside. I'm gonna get that to them later on. Right now I gotta watch some 'Love Connection.' They got some new host on there."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, House

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• I always wanted to be the strongest man on the field. Most of the time, they said I was lifting too much but I didn't believe in that at all.

  Frank Thomas

  Believe, Men, Fields

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. July 14, 2014.

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• I like slim style. It is good to catch up to the trend too, but not too much exposure. I like styles that would show their unique charms.

  Yesung

  Unique, Style, Trends

  Source: y3sung.tumblr.com

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• You want an idea that turns into a monopoly. But you can't get a monopoly, in a big market right away; too much competition for that.

  Sam Altman

  Ideas, Competition, Want

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• I try to make the writing as regular and regimented as possible. I usually get up at around 5 a.m. and read what I wrote the day before. Some of the time, after I read, I think the writing's very good and some of the time I feel embarrassed by what I've written. You have to learn not to pay too much attention to these feelings.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Writing, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• You see this incredible capacity for replication in nature, survival, development, all of these things that are around us all the time in nature that just happen. By comparison, human life is really, really complicated. We're gifted animals, but we are so complicated. Nothing is easy for us, except maybe eating too much.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Animal, Survival, Development

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• Kids are afraid that if they race too fast they will get tired. Way too much fear and way too little COURAGE.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Tired, Kids, Race

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• I'm one of those people. I can be sold by the candy in life, and then it can be stripped away within a split second and I feel like I've seen too much. And that's the way, I've been like that most of my life, so I could never say I was there yet in any stretch of the imagination.

  Richard Ashcroft

  People, Imagination, Splits

  Source: www.excellentonline.com

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• To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.

  Ethan Canin

  I've Learned, Force, True Freedom

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Gettting to know your characters is so much more important than plotting. Working out every detail of your story in advance, especially when you don't yet know your main characters, always seems a little too much like playing God. You're working out your characters' lives, their destiny, before they've had a chance to discover who they are and what kind of people they want to be.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Character, Destiny, People

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• I put my energy into writing songs. I have to carve out a living somehow doing this, and licensing is one way. It's hard to register what's "too much" for other people. I don't watch TV, so it's tough for me to gauge. I just take it as it comes, and don't put a whole lot of thought into it.

  Iron & Wine

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• PhotoShop is a program I use all the time with my 2D stuff. And that's an extraordinary program - you really can do anything there, and I've never hit my head on the ceiling. The 3D stuff is incredibly complicated, monstrously complicated, but for the things that I want to do, I've found very simple and interesting ways, I hope, of making images without getting tied up too much in the maps and technicalities.

  Dave McKean

  Simple, Interesting, Ceilings

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Ideas

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• I think that it's too much to take on the world. It's too much to take on Los Angeles. All I can do is to go back home to the canyon where we live and ask the kinds of questions that can make a difference in our neighborhoods.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Home, Thinking, Differences

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• Aside from being a fighter, I am a relaxed person. It is a lifestyle thing for me. I don't stress too much.

  Urijah Faber

  Stress, Fighter, Lifestyle

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I'm much more of a risk taker. I'm more fearless now than when I was 18. I was much more self-aware and I cared too much about what people thought of me and now I really don't. I probably should.

  Jessica Alba

  Self, People, Fearless

  "Jessica Alba Interview, Spy Kids All The Time in the World". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. September 13, 2017.

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• I tried not to write about the O.J. Simpson case too much because so much has already been said about it, but there are a lot of questions left worth asking. However, the case is very useful to illustrate other points. The case is a common reference point because everybody knows the ins and outs of it, more than any other case in this generation, so it becomes useful to reference other points. In itself, there aren't that many questions about it that remain unanswered.

  Bill James

  Writing, This Generation, Generations

  "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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