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It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.

Emmylou Harris

Lying, Silence, Fields

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If you’re not eating the right foods in the right amounts, all the exercise in the world won’t combat the caloric intake.

Jennifer Hudson

Health, Exercise, World

Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.102, Penguin

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Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set of stereotypes about what women feel and how women behave. Despite the large amount of overlap between the sexes in most research, the tendency to label and polarize and thus to exaggerate differences remains in much reporting of data, which may, for example, report the mean scores of male and female populations but not the degree of overlap.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Sex, Mean, Data

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I find that, in general, the amount of sharing men do with each other in one year is about the same as what I share with my female friends while we wait for our cars at the valet.

Amy Poehler

Men, Years, Car

Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.177, Pan Macmillan

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Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

Chris Pine

Opposites, Dating Someone, Incredibles

"Pine and girlfriend ‘split’", sg.news.yahoo.com. April 26, 2013.

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Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.

Edith Stein

Waiting, Heaven, Energy

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all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even if the criticism is valid or good, they should just shut up, and let that person create. Because at a certain point you have to make it your own - not the world's, but your own.

Gena Rowlands

Creating, Creative, Criticism

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It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature; which recognizes a noble thought, as a virtuous mind welcomes a pure sentiment by a involuntary glow of satisfaction. But while the principle of perception is inherent in the soul, it requires a certain amount of knowledge to draw out and direct it.

Robert Aris Willmott

Beautiful, Art, Soul

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Modern statisticians are familiar with the notion that any finite body of data contains only a limited amount of information on any point under examination; that this limit is set by the nature of the data themselves, and cannot be increased by any amount of ingenuity expended in their statistical examination: that the statistician's task, in fact, is limited to the extraction of the whole of the available information on any particular issue.

Ronald Fisher

Data, Issues, Tasks

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Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.

Elizabeth Kolbert

Running, Errors, Light

"The Sixth Extinction?" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. May 25, 2009.

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It is no accident that stock exchange floors - in addition to bedroom floors - bring out the noisy blood, the flushed cheek, and the passionate cries of men. Most men are making love when they make 'magical' amounts of money.

Phyllis Chesler

Men, Blood, Making Love

Phyllis Chesler, Emily Jane Goodman (1976). “Women, money & power”, William Morrow & Co

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The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions.

John Henry Holland

Agents, Action, Given

John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman

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No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against God, Israel and Humanity.

Hermann Adler

Israel, Humanity, Charity

"The Pentateuch and Haftorahs" by Joseph H. Hertz, p. 849, (One-volume edition), 1937.

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being chic not only takes a great deal of money but an enormous amount of time. It practically precludes everything else, even being on charity committees. Half of one's time goes getting chic, the other half being seen that way.

Elizabeth Hawes

Fashion, Style, Half

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Just as, in travel, one may miss seeing the sunset because one cannot find the ticket-office or is afraid of missing the train, so in even the closest human relationships a vast amount of time and of affection is drained away in minor misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and failures in consideration or understanding.

Iris Origo

Sunset, Opportunity, Office

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What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to carry a long job through. ... Helping children to face up to a certain amount of drudgery, cheerfully and energetically, is one of the biggest problems that teachers, in these days of ubiquitous entertainment, have to face in our schools.

Miss Read

Education, Teacher, Jobs

Miss Read (1977). “Chronicles of Fairacre, Comprising Village School, Village Diary, and Storm in the Village”

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The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income.

Sandra Lerner

Girl, Women, Income

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Fear goes hand-in-hand with artistic creation, and no amount of success will make the fear go away entirely.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Creativity, Hands, Going Away

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If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases.

Grace Coolidge

Men, Effectiveness, Numbers

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Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.

Nic Pizzolatto

Years, Six Months, Actors

"‘True Detective’ creator on his gripping new HBO series". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 7, 2014.

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Demonstrate to your customer the difference between price and cost. The price is what it takes to purchase the item. The cost is the amount the customer eventually pays. They are not the same.

Brian Tracy

Differences, Cost, Pay

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Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be damned, I did this today. It doesn't matter how good it is, or how bad-you did it. At the end of the week you'll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I'll be damned, it's been a good year.

Ray Bradbury

Lying, Thinking, Years

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Screenwriting involves an often un-personal process. Co-writers, directors, producers, everyone has a say in what you put on a page, and stories are constantly changing according to budget, actors, and commercial needs. Films are a collaborative process and are also inherently narrative and structured, so you are always working within very tight parameters. Short fiction unleashes a more intimate voice and a passion for language. I believe short narratives can have the same amount of danger and drama as any action film.

Chiara Barzini

Drama, Believe, Passion

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I deserve a fair trial, like every other American citizen. A large amount of ugly, malicious misinformation has been released to the media about me.

Michael Jackson

Media, Citizens, Trials

Source: www.nbcnews.com

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I respect the Kennedy family. I respect their service. They do a tremendous amount of good. You don't blame the children for the sins of the father and all of that.

Bernard Goldberg

Children, Father, Kennedy Family

"Bernie Goldberg Explains Why We Should Be Thanking Rich Americans". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2010.

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