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• American culture in particular has instilled in us the bizarre notion that to ask for help amounts to an admission of failure. But some of the most powerful, successful, admired people in the world seem, to me, to have something in common: they ask constantly, creatively, compassionately, and gracefully. And to be sure: when you ask, there's always the possibility of a no on the other side of the request. If we don't allow for that no, we're not actually asking, we're either begging or demanding. But it is the fear of the no that keeps so many of our mouths sewn tightly shut.

  Amanda Palmer

  Powerful, Successful, People

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• You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void.

  David LaChapelle

  Real, Buying Things, Shopping

  "Pretty vacant" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2006.

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• You know, we have little bits of understanding, glimpses, a little bit of light here and there, but there's a tremendous amount of darkness, which is a challenge. I think life would be pretty boring if we understood everything. It's better if we don't understand anything and know that we don't, that's the important part.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Light, Challenges

  Interview in Cardiff, Wales, UK, March 11, 2011.

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• Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.

  Gareth Bale

  Struggle, Growing, Ridiculous

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• I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

  Alan Garner

  Writing, Stories, Research

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• Im amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.

  J. I. Packer

  People, Internet, Amazed

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• Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts.

  Heber J. Grant

  Dream

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• The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life removes an essential ingredient of happiness. [. . .] He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Struggle, Animal, Effort

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our hands - like a flower. The form remains, but the colours and the fragrance are gone.

  Robert Musil

  Flower, Hands, Understanding

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• What they smell isn't the emotion of fear. What dogs can smell is the changes in a person's skin that suggest fear to the dog, anxiety, the way your skin sweats, the amount of uric acid that suddenly pours out of your pores.

  Robert Crais

  Dog, Sweat, Smell

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• [W]e think the very term 'value investing' is redundant. What is 'investing' if it is not the act of seeking value at least sufficient to justify the amount paid? Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value -- in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price -- should be labeled speculation (which is neither illegal, immoral nor -- in our view -- financially fattening).

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Views, Investing

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• The reason why the musketeers regiment is so important for Porthos is that it is the only family he's ever known. There's an amazing amount of passion and pride for Porthos in being a musketeer. The Fleur De Lis that he wears on his shoulder guard means the world to him. That brotherhood. Fraternity, loyalty, equality - those things are very important to Porthos.

  Howard Charles

  Loyalty, Passion, Mean

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• Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

  Henry Ford

  Quality, Matter

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• The more intelligent and competent a woman is in her adult life, the less likely she is to have received an adequate amount of romantic attention in adolescence.

  Susan Jacoby

  Sex, Intelligent, Adults

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• The people of Tlön are taught that the act of counting modifies the amount counted, turning indefinites into definites. The fact that several persons counting the same quantity come to the same result is for the psychologists of Tlön an example of the association of ideas or of memorization.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Ideas, People, Example

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• I think that, honestly, people's censorship issues are personal but I disagree with most of those personal choices that I see others make. You know, I watch television and there's a grotesque amount of violence on almost every show that you would watch that comes on past 8:00 pm. And I think my dirty brand of humor is far less destructive to a child's mentality.

  Seth Rogen

  Children, Dirty, Thinking

  "Seth Rogen's B.O.B. Returns in Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. October 26, 2009.

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• I learn the lines as soon as I can and then the challenge really, for filming, is to show up and be there and respond to what's around you. That's where the gold dust is. It's really strange, no amount of preparation will help you with the magic of spontaneity on the day [of filming].

  Tom Hiddleston

  Dust, Challenges, Magic

  "Tom Hiddleston Interview - Exclusive". Just Jared Interview, www.justjared.com. December 21, 2011.

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• There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.

  Michel Gondry

  Sometimes, Film, Abstraction

  "Michel Gondry on Mood Indigo, special effects, Jim Carrey, and Charlie Kaufman". Interview with A.A. Dowd, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2014.

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• Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work.

  Christophe Beck

  Fun, Personality, Quality

  Source: collider.com

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• I lived in a cabin in the woods in Oregon, and I'd basically given up on the music industry for an indefinite amount of time. And while I was out there, I came up with a very specific vision of what I wanted my music to sound like.

  Skylar Grey

  Oregon, Vision, Sound

  "Skylar Grey on Her New Album, Eminem's Mystique and Why She Almost Quit Music (Q&A)". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 9, 2013.

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• What life really is all about is happiness. It's not money, or stature, or the amount of cars you have in your driveway. Life, a really successful life, is one in which you are loved and love somebody else, or some other people.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Successful, People, Car

  "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.

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• Being on TV in front of people is a lot different than sitting in a dark room with a microphone. When I had my radio show, I was on four hours a day for 20-something years. If you put a live microphone in front of Mother Teresa for that amount of time, she'd piss somebody off.

  Wendy Williams

  Mother, Dark, Years

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction. I usually have three or four things that are open on my desk, on my bed, on audiobook in the car.

  James Patterson

  Book, Reading, Years

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I don't believe in misconceptions in art and films. There are always so many different ways to relate to or understand a film. I love films that give a great amount of space to the audience to explore or be active with what the film is saying.

  Claudia Llosa

  Art, Believe, Space

  "Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Claudia Llosa – ‘Aloft’". Interview with Tory Kamen, www.indiewire.com. April 17, 2015.

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• We're [Clinton Foundation] trying to get rapid tests that give you results when you're right there on site at an affordable price. Ninety percent of the HIV-positive people in the world don't know they have the infection. An enormous amount of infections are being perpetrated by people who don't know they themselves are HIV positive.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Giving, Trying

  Source: www.npr.org

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