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• I get extra time to take the test because of my ADD. Everybody's brains works differently and I just need longer for things to register.

  Mary-Kate Olsen

  Extra Time, Brain, Needs

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• I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.

  Yoko Ono

  Creativity, Unfinished Work, Two

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 12, 2007.

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• The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.

  Yoko Ono

  Song, Inspiration, Play

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• Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum.

  Suze Orman

  Meaningful, Cutting, Looks

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• We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

  William Osler

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.301, Duke University Press

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• I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Moving, Thinking, Jumping

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• My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Family, Daughter, Mother

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• Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

  Blaise Pascal

  Evil, Investing, Faults

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.

  Danica Patrick

  Who I Am, Car, Swimsuits

  "Daytona 500: Racing superstar Danica Patrick commits career to America’s NASCAR". Interview with Rachel Ray, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 26, 2012.

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• Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Love Is

  Pope John Paul II (1980). “Pilgrimage of peace: the collected speeches of John Paul II in Ireland and the United States”, HarperCollins

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• You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle.

  Sean Penn

  Struggle, Actors, Fuel

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• My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.

  Jacques Pepin

  Chef, Used, Palate

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• You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Rainy Day, Texas

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• I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, "If wet, in the library." Who could say that this is bad?

  Terry Pratchett

  Garden, Glasses, Hands

  "I'll die before the endgame, says Terry Pratchett in call for law to allow assisted suicides in UK", www.dailymail.co.uk. August 3, 2009.

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• I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dragons, Talking, Guy

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• People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.

  Jeremy Renner

  Brother, Kids, People

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• The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

  Susan Rice

  Korea, Risk, Nuclear

  "Interview with U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 6, 2009.

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• It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Fog, Enchantment, Mystery

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• Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.

  David Rockefeller

  Ability, Constructive, Hopefully

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

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• Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Funny Relationship, Age, Vices

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• The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Money, Economic Inequality, History

  Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937

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• Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.

  David Lee Roth

  Real, Doors, Chinese

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• Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?

  Karl Rove

  Eye, Years, Hawks

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• Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Responsibility, Decision, President

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspiring, Success, Writing

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