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• I have two rules for living in the world. I never say anything negative about anyone, because that won't get you anywhere. And two, if people confront me with certain questions, if they are not right, I will not answer them.

  Richard Simmons

  People, Say Anything, Negative

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I came along and my father said, "Oh, let Peter enjoy himself." What she did was leave musical instruments all around the house. Whistles, marimbas, squeeze boxes, a piano and organ. By age six or seven, I could bang out a simple tune on almost anything. I developed a good ear, so I didn't learn to read music until I taught myself at age eighteen, 'cause I was hearing so many good songs I couldn't possibly remember them all.

  Pete Seeger

  Mother, Song, Brother

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• Every family is a "normal" family- no matter whether it has one parent, two, or no children at all.

  Shere Hite

  Children, Parent, Matter

  Shere Hite (2011). “The Shere Hite Reader: New and Selected Writings on Sex, Globalism, and Private Life”, p.411, Seven Stories Press

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• If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with no winners, and there's another block in World War Two. And then it seems like there's another world war.

  Lance Armstrong

  Block, War, Wikipedia

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t stand to have an animal in pain.

  Ricky Gervais

  Religious, Growing Up, Pain

  Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. May 15, 2013.

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• When you have so many projects to nurture, one or two get real excited and raise their hands. The reaction from it tells when it's time and where to go. I usually have about a half a dozen titles in development; researchers researching and people doing cover. I'm exploring musical vocabularies I want to explore, different genres, and constantly reading things.

  Frank Wildhorn

  Real, Reading, Hands

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.

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• Indians have no monopoly on environmentalism. That's one of the great myths. But we were subsistence livers. They're two different things. Environmentalism is a conscious choice and subsistence is the absence of choice. We had to use everything to survive. And now that we've been assimilated and colonized and we have luxuries and excesses, we're just as wasteful as other people.

  Sherman Alexie

  Luxury, People, Choices

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• If you think you can do two full-time jobs, people will expect you to do three.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Jobs, Work, Thinking

  Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.141, Penguin

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• Perfect sandwich? Two slices of white bread, mustard, mayo and a platinum American Express card.

  Chris Pratt

  White, Perfect, Cards

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 24, 2015.

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• When you look at your freelance career, it's really like a mall. And if you look at a mall, it's a self-contained system that has a flow and logic to it. You'll probably have one or two really bigger jobs, those are like your anchor stores.

  Chris Hardwick

  Jobs, Self, Anchors

  "How Nerdist Chris Hardwick Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 29, 2008.

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• The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Blow, Weather, Giving

  gertrude atherton (1916). “the conqueror”

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• Some authorities believe that one prosperous thought is more powerful than a thousand failure thoughts; and that two prosperous attitudes steadily held and expressed are more powerful than ten thousand failure attitudes!

  Catherine Ponder

  Powerful, Attitude, Believe

  Catherine Ponder (2016). “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• Choosing a director is like choosing a therapist - you want somebody who is going to be a step or two ahead of you, who can interpret and articulate your intentions better than you can, with the benefit of objectivity. I look for a collaborator who is going to help bring to life, on stage, in three dimensions, what is on the page. I wouldn't want a director who imposes conceits or distrusts the text or who has prejudged the characters.

  Donald Margulies

  Character, Objectivity, Benefits

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• A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.

  Arthur Miller

  War, United States, Events

  Interview with William R. Ferris, www.neh.gov. March/April 2001.

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• Yes, as a people we are spoiled. We look for dinners that take two minutes to cook in our microwave instead of five, and we audibly sigh if the directions on the box require us to stir at the halfway point. Aw, I gotta stir? See what else is in the freezer.

  Martha Bolton

  People, Cooking, Looks

  Martha Bolton (2003). “I Think, Therefore, I Have a Headache!: A Laugh-Out-Loud Look at Life”, Bethany House Pub

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• The phenomenal success of the recovery movement reflects two simple truths that emerge in adolescence: all people love to talk about themselves, and most people are mad at their parents. You don't have to be in denial to doubt that truths like these will set us free.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Recovery, Simple, People

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• my choices were partly conditioned by the two great laws - of biology and sociology - for I do not conceive of myself outside of them. ... Inside every biological and social situation I am free to make decisions.

  Nina Berberova

  Law, Choices, Decision

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• Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.

  Patricia Moyes

  Cat, Mutual Benefit, People

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• China has to move to a more flexible foreign currency trading system, no question about that. You might see two or three moves to widen the band, say to 0.5 percent.

  Arjuna Mahendran

  Moving, Might, Three

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• We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Brother, Men, Gender

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2008). “Max (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.310, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• From the moment of birth, at every level, human beings who are more alike than different become polarized into two absolutely exclusive classes with very different and ill-distributed symbolic powers.

  Nancy Mairs

  Class, Different, Levels

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• [Sex] is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There's only birth and death and the union of two people - and sex is the only one that happens to us more than once.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Sex, People, Unions

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• one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.

  Susan Jacoby

  Past, Rights, Years

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• The fact that men have a same origin and live in the same universe means that they are representatives of a same unity. Deep down, they are also related (or connected) among them; that they consider (or not) themselves as strangers, this just depends on the feeling (or sensation) that dictate their relationships. In their country, two fellow coutrymen whose paths berely cross (or see each only only briefly) with inferrence, would effusively rush themselves up (or throw themselves) into each other arms if they would happen to meet in a desert, among Cannibles.

  African Spir

  Country, Mean, Men

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 42), 1937.

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• Girlhood ... is the intellectual phase of a woman's life, that time when, unencumbered by societal expectations or hormonal rages, one may pursue any curiosity from the mysteries of the yo-yo to the meaning of infinity. These two particular pursuits were where I left off in the fifth grade when I discovered a hair growing in the wrong place and all hell broke loose.

  Alice Kahn

  Hair, Expectations, Intellectual

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