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• From '86 until the summer of last year, wherever I went, people would say, You would have made a great James Bond! Weren't you going to be James Bond? You should have been, you could have been, you may have been. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. It was like unfinished business in my life. I couldn't say no to it this time around.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Summer, Should Have, Years

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• Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as we deal with matters both large and small. One habit that prevents inner peace is procrastination. It clutters our minds with unfinished business and makes us uneasy until we finish a task and get it out of the way.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Procrastination, Effort, Inner Peace

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• Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemency or absolution could be passed along. How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? From that place of meditation, I found the answer-you can finish the business yourself, from within yourself. It's not only possible, it's essential.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Children, Pain, Sibling

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.177, A&C Black

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• He looked at my lips. I suddenly found myself wanting to lick his. 'Yes,' he replied, his eyes going molten. My breath caught in my throat as he reached out and brushed a strand of hair where it had flown across my cheek. 'I believe we do have unfinished business.' 'Good.' I gulped, suddenly one big mass of tingling body parts that wanted an immediate introduction to all of his body parts. I tried to slam down a mental barrier between his mind and mine, but it did no good. The cheerleaders in my groin were setting up fundraising car washes to finance a field trip to his groin.

  Katie MacAlister

  Believe, Eye, Fundraising

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• Richard," Kahlan said, "what about Siddin? Weselan and Savidlin will be worried sick over him." Her green eyes gazed deep into his. She leaned closer, and whispered, "And we have unfinished business in the spirit house. I believe there is still an apple there we have yet to finish." Her arm tightened around his waist, and a little twist of a smile came to her lips. The shape of the smile caught his breath in his throat.

  Terry Goodkind

  Believe, Eye, Apples

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.618, Head of Zeus

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• Everyone's got unfinished business with Barcelona. They're the greatest team in the world.

  Frank Lampard

  Team, World, Barcelona

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• He bowed is head into my throat, groaning softly. "I loved you long before you loved me. Its the only thing I have you beat at, and ill bring it up every chance I get." His mouth pressed to my skin, took on a devilish curve. "Lets get out of here. I'm taking you back to my place, this time for good. We have unfinished business, and I think its time we do something about it.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Thinking, Curves, Long

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• If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection. Wistful silences demonstrate unfinished business. The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.

  Anita Diament

  Daughter, Mother, Strong

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• Door’s locked,” he said. “And we have unfinished business.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Doors, Said, Locked

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.

  Suzanne Collins

  President Snow, White, Rose

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.15, Scholastic Inc.

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• What is your problem?” I asked, scooping the freezing mess out of my cleavage. “We got unfinished business,” he reminded me. “My name’s not Bill.” He chuckled. “Yeah, I loved that movie. Shoulda brought a katana, but it seemed like an unfair advantage.

  Karen Chance

  Names, Bills, Unfair Advantage

  Karen Chance (2012). “Fury's Kiss: A Midnight's Daughter Novel”, p.117, Penguin

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• Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Suicide, Cheating, School

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• I wondered why I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seemed utterly inevitable about the moment. Not in any grand, destined sense; just in the quiet, stubborn way that unfinished business has of imposing its will on the unwilling.

  Emily Giffin

  Encounters, Stubborn, Way

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.335, Macmillan

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• My therapist shared a theory she had come across, and I liked it. It held that before making your next journey in this life, your soul sits at a large, circular conference table and chooses the souls who are going to be a part of your life. As for which particular people would be chosen, I figured they would be individuals from previous lives with whom there was still unfinished business.

  Melissa Gilbert

  Journey, People, Soul

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• As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan.

  Chelsea Manning

  Military, War, Media

  "The Fog Machine of War" by Chelsea Manning, www.nytimes.com. June 14, 2014.

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• We know that President Obama and his accomplishments, that there's a lot of unfinished business there.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Accomplishment, President, Knows

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I have some unfinished business to complete at the University of Oregon.

  Chip Kelly

  Oregon, Unfinished, University

  "Broncos coordinator to speak with Raiders again". www.sfgate.com. January 24, 2012.

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• For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Parent, Guilt, Relation

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• I think that the Middle East is the largest piece of unfinished business that we all have. I happen to believe in the democratization process.

  Madeleine Albright

  Believe, Thinking, Middle East

  "Online Extra: Madeleine Albright on Democracy and Force". Transcript of the former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, www.bloomberg.com. December 23, 2002.

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• You have a lot of unfinished business, but obviously every president who leaves, particularly after two terms, can point to many different areas where there has been progress and there has been change.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Two, President, Progress

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You can eat beef on a weekly basis and become a genius intuitive if your energy is in present time.You can consume only organic food while running thirty-five miles a day and "om-ing" until dawn, but if your spirit is raging about your history and is saturated in regrets and unfinished business, you won't be able to intuit your left hand from your right.

  Caroline Myss

  Running, Regret, Hands

  "Distractions, Distractions: 5 rules for staying in the present moment". www.healyourlife.com. August 19, 2010.

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• The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience.

  Robert Updegraff

  Successful, Might, Tides

  Robert Rawls Updegraff (1958). “All the time you need: the greatest gift in the world”

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• It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.

  Edward Kennedy

  Iraq, Office, Priorities

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. That is certainly true. But so, too, are the issues of LGBT rights the unfinished business of the 21st century.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Mother, Rights, Issues

  "Clinton: Gay marriage not the end" by Jose Delreal, www.politico.com. February 17, 2014.

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• The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Good Life, Events, Way

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