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• My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.

  William Scranton

  Tests, Suits, Take Me

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• People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.

  Jayson Blair

  Media, Years, People

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• That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

  Jim Morrison

  Famous Love, Being Yourself, True Friend

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options.

  Kevin Kelly

  Technology, Minimum

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• Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

  Sam Harris

  Long, Puppets, Creeds

  Sam Harris (2012). “Free Will”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success

  Fred Wilson

  Fundraising, Facts, Raises

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• You can start over again! Don't even think about quitting now! It is easy to replay in your mind how things did not work, how much you lost, what you are going through, how angry you are. There is no amount of conversation or magic that is going to wipe the slate clean. You are wasting valuable time and energy that could be used to regain a new normal and start another version of your life. Even though you are hurt and you may be feeling down — stop kicking yourself! Face what has happened. Make the decision to start over again.

  Les Brown

  Hurt, Thinking, New Normal

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• No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

  Ken Thompson

  Levels, Scrutiny, Source

  "Reflections on Trusting Trust". Communications of the ACM 27 (8), (pp. 761-763), August 1984.

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• Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

  Don Marquis

  Men, Thinking, Civilization

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.71, Doubleday

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• Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.

  Don Marquis

  Irritation, Personality, Able

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• My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.

  Scott Adams

  Used, Made, Old Life

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• I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.

  Michael Johnson

  Years, Careers, Gold

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• Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years

  John Newton

  Time, Loss, Years

  John Newton (1839). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c”, p.153

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• I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am.

  Jason Isaacs

  Mean, Who I Am, People

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

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• Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users.

  Evan Williams

  Communication, Fighting, Abuse

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• Considering the amount of work I put into each piece, the amount I need to make from it is pretty high. I won't sell for less... but that means I rarely sell.

  Paul Kane

  Mean, Needs, Pieces

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• I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.

  Alan Ball

  Spiritual, Integrity, Thinking

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• Our experience of love is more of a measure of whether we're connected with the universal source of this energy. In other words, there's some life energy that we have and sort of share with people we might be relating to that takes place, that operates whether we're sort of feeling in a state of love or not. But love is the measure of whether we're really connected with the internal source of this energy where we can consciously sort of fill up and amplify the amount of energy that we're able to take in from the inside.

  James Redfield

  Love, People, Feelings

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• Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting their existing intake.

  Robert Heller

  Information, Enormous, Booze

  "Research in light of a dark tunnel". Audit AGB research. London, Spring 1973.

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• All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.

  Adam Smith

  Jobs, Investing, Proportion

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• The camera movement should be like a cat jumping onto a table - with just enough amount of effort and that's it. That's enough.

  Steve McQueen

  Cat, Jumping, Effort

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for a certain amount of time, and then I was like, "I want to start directing."

  Mark Webber

  Years, Actors, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Two billion people watched the royal wedding. Clearly, they're interested in that - the outside of what appears to be lives that have a certain amount of privilege. They have gifts, they have history, they have a sort of unusual and separate position, which maybe involves paying a price.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Two, Royal Wedding, People

  "Actor-director Kenneth Branagh". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 5, 2011.

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• I hate movies that take a long time to shoot or directors that labor over every shot or do excessive amounts of coverage and excessive takes and don't keep things moving or constantly cutting.

  Stanley Tucci

  Hate, Moving, Cutting

  Source: collider.com

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• With no gravitational force to work against, your body not only doesn't need the same amount of muscle and bone, it starts breaking them down. As on Earth, so in space: use it or lose it. And exercise may not solve the problem.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Exercise, Use It Or Lose It, Space

  "Can We Make It To Mars?". "NOVA scienceNOW" with Neil deGrasse Tyson, www.pbs.org. January 19, 2011.

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