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• You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals.

  Chris Cooper

  Animal, Space, Personality

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• While fund performance is unpredictable, the impact of fees is not, .. A 1- percent annual fee will reduce an ending account balance by 17 percent after 20 years.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Impact, Years, Balance

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• The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot be measured directly against the volume of such emissions.

  Conrad Black

  Doe, Natural, Volume

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• That's why I want you there, he said. You're unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people.

  Kim Harrison

  Anger, Differences, People

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• If you deeply appreciate and love what creative people do and how they think, which is usually in unpredictable and irrational ways, then you can start to understand them. And finally, you can see inside their minds and DNA.

  Bernard Arnault

  Thinking, Dna, People

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• Cat's are unpredictable. It is a fine line between the cure, inquisitive and innocent creature resting on our lap and the hissing, spitting and deranged banshee it might become at any moment. This is why we're trying always to win their love.

  George Takei

  Cat, Winning, Trying

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• A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time. Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.

  Alan Lightman

  Goodbye, Coffee, Passion

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• The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

  Tom Stoppard

  Together, Way, Arcadia

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.62, Faber & Faber

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• Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Violence, Humour

  "One original gangster". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2010.

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• The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution.

  Ken MacLeod

  Real, Engineering, Ideas

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• You know we're in a business where things are just unpredictable. You don't know what's going to happen...we were lucky Blessed, I think is a better way to put it.

  Aaliyah

  Business, Blessed, Thinking

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• I find the older I get, the lower in weight I go. It's harder to recover. Living in New York City, working a job that is unpredictable and at times stressful, you're lifting way more than your max because you need to push some weight around. You put an extra plate on for the release, and then you're sore the next week. Its stress release.

  Danny Pino

  Jobs, New York, Stress

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• Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room for response, so I simply hold her and stroke her hair. She talks of the pain, grief, and horror of the past four years; of learning to cope with being the wife of a man so violent and unpredictable his touch made her skin crawl and of thinking, until quite recently, that she'd finally managed to do that. And then, finally, of how my appearance had forced her to realize she hadn't learned to cope at all.

  Sara Gruen

  Pain, Lying, Grief

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• If I know what to spec, and I can measure it, and there are no unpredictable interdependencies between what you do and what I must do in response, then an economist would say that is sufficient information for a market to emerge between you and me.

  Clayton Christensen

  Information, Between You And Me, Economist

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Los Angeles survives on that which is unpredictable. The unexpected courses through its very veins.

  Ellie Kemper

  Veins, Unexpected, Los Angeles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown consequences. Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. The multiplicity of determinants which affect biological systems limits the power of the experimental method to predict their trends and behavior.

  Rene Dubos

  Destiny, Self, Order

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• The problem with the Jude Law "Hamlet" was simply that it wasn't unpredictable, that it was a very down-the-center modern production. You wouldn't go to the theater expecting to see an old-fashioned "Hamlet" where everybody wears an old fashioned costume. You don't get points for putting on a "Hamlet" where everybody dresses in black. I've seen that one several times. But again, it's not that it has to be new, it simply that it has to be different, fresh, that it doesn't bore, that it doesn't make me - I don't feel as I'm watching it that I know where it's going to go.

  Terry Teachout

  Black, Different, Problem

  Source: bigthink.com

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• What I'm realizing as I get older is that a movie's mainstream success is just as unpredictable as a movie's cult success. Plenty of movies that are truly odd and deserve cults, don't have cults. It's just as much of a crapshoot to be a cult hit as it is to be a mainstream success. Isn't that weird?

  Patton Oswalt

  Realizing, Odd, Cult

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• the things that people are typically afraid of are what I find most exciting and unpredictable, and I guess that's part of the problem is people don't want something unpredictable wasting their time while the cameras are rolling, where to me that's by far the most interesting part.

  David Gordon Green

  Want Something, People, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• I think we close our psychic field so that we can protect ourselves from the vast and unpredictable energies of the universe.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Thinking, Psychics, Fields

  Source: www.elemente-des-seins.de

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• The most important thing in the professional wrestling industry in this day and age of technology and the Internet and social media is to be able to make wrestling unpredictable.

  Matt Hardy

  Wrestling, Technology, Media

  Source: www.rohwrestling.com

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• Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent unpredictable since they are not optimal machines. We cannot know their future with certainty, if only because a myriad of quirky functional shifts lie within the capacity of any feature, however well adapted to a present role.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Lying, Past, Quirky

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Character, Half, Firsts

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• I do all that I can to surprise people and make things unpredictable because that is what makes wrestling fun.

  Matt Hardy

  Fun, Wrestling, People

  Source: www.rohwrestling.com

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• I love the way Damon Lindelof writes. It's almost like he was channeling me and he had my voice, even though the territory that those lines cover is unpredictable, and goes from raw emotion to laugh out loud funny but always true.

  Scott Glenn

  Writing, Laughing, Emotion

  Source: collider.com

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