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• The goal is to be both disciplined and loose, so that the writing does not turn into a task or a chore. To leave myself behind, along with the mechanics, and disappear into the lives of my characters.

  Pete Hamill

  Writing, Character, Goal

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• The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Team, Apples, People

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• In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Apples, Firsts, Facts

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• A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Gold, Pennies, Painter

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• Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly. To-morrow, in the natural sun, the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler, relief; the glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp—all others but liars!

  Moby

  Dream, Liars, Believe

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• Just think, the shoes I wouldn’t be caught dead in might actually turn out to be the shoes I am caught dead in.

  David Rakoff

  Thinking, Shoes, Might

  David Rakoff (2002). “Fraud: Essays”, p.8, Anchor

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• But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are too poor to escape the reality of their lives; and they are too poor to live properly in the place where they live, which is the very place you, the tourist, want to go--so when the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom, they enjoy your ability to turn their own banality and boredom into a source of pleasure for yourself.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Reality, Envy, Boredom

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• I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

  Agnes Macphail

  Home, Angel, Equality

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• You have got to trust the signs. Everything will turn out fine

  Jhene Aiko

  Fine

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• I think it could have real changing effects on the financial markets of our country, it could cause investors to think more about real rates of return and that in turn could spawn new kinds of products.

  Robert Rubin

  Country, Real, Thinking

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• There is another side to me which people don't often see, but it's very hard for me to show that. When I do interviews, I'm talking to people I don't know and when you speak to a stranger you don't open up, do you? In my position, people are always looking for something to say about me. And anything I do say, given half-a-chance they'll turn it round into something spectacular so I've got to be very careful. That's why it's only my friends and family who know the real me. Now my wife, Lainya, she could tell you a few stories.

  Alan Shearer

  Real, Talking, People

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• Sometimes when an idea flashes, you distrust it because it seems too easy. You qualify it with all kinds of evasive phrases because you’re timid about it. But often, this turns out to be the best idea of all.

  Saul Bass

  Ideas, Bass, Phrases

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• In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.

  Robert McKee

  Math, Two, Logic

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• Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we are dead our corpses are devoured by different kinds of worms according as we are fat or thin? In fat corpses one species of maggot is found, the rhizophagus, while thin corpses are patronized only by the phora. The latter is evidently the aristocrat, the fastidious gourmet which turns up its nose at a heavy meal of copious breasts and juicy at bellies. Just think, there is no perfect equality, even in the manner in which we feed the worms.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Thinking, Dust, Perfect

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (1972). “L…-bas (Down There).”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Fighting, Russia, Order

  Appeal to the military to not participate in the coup attempt, while standing on a tank during troop movements against the Russian White House, August 19, 1991.

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• Much of American wealth is an illusion which is being secretly gnawed away and much of it will be completely wiped out in the near future....So what is the rest of your future? A grisly list of unpleasant events -- exploding inflation, price controls, erosion of your savings (eventually to nothing), a collapse of private as well as government pension programs, and eventually an international monetary holocaust which will sweep all paper currencies down the drain and turn the world upside down.

  Howard Ruff

  Erosion, Government, Holocaust

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• Your soul is your mind, your will and your emotions. When the Word gets rooted in there and begins to change your mind, it begins to heal your emotions and turn your will away from self-will and onto doing the will of God.

  Joyce Meyer

  Self, Soul, Mind

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• One must seek the shortest way and the fastest means to get back home-to turn the spark within into a blaze, to be merged in and to identify with that greater fire which ignited the spark.

  Bhagawan Nityananda

  Home, Mean, Fire

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• I became a physician in order to help save lives. I am at once a physician, a citizen, and a woman, and I am not willing to stand aside and allow the concept of expendable human lives to turn this great land of ours into just another exclusive reservation where only the perfect, the privileged, and the planned have the right to live.

  Mildred Fay Jefferson

  Order, Land, Perfect

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• Women, who are the prime victims of religion, and perhaps in some, stockholm syndrome effect, often form the most fervent advocates of the very thing that degrades them. I believe that in the end, it will be women who will turn this around. This should be the final stage of feminism. For a feminist to still believe in god is like a freed slave still living on the plantation.

  Matthew Chapman

  Believe, Feminist, Feminism

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• Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

  Chris Murray

  Heart, People, Ifs

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• Capping the size of American banks won't eliminate the needs of big businesses; it will force them to turn to foreign banks that won't face the same restrictions.

  Jamie Dimon

  Needs, Faces, Size

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• It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

  Jack Osbourne

  Real, Tv Shows, Mind

  "Jack Talks About His Addiction and Recovery". MTV.com, February 2003.

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• I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. Youve been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, I will not be silenced.

  Ariel Dorfman

  Home, Blessing, Thinking

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• Don't wait until you retire to go fishing. Don't even wait until your annual vacation. Go at every opportunity. Things that appear more urgent at the moment may, in the long run, turn out to be far less so.

  Ted Trueblood

  Running, Opportunity, Vacation

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