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• I wake up with new dreams every day. So the more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me. And the older I get, the earlier I get up. The second my feet hit the floor, I'm awake. I'm like hurry, hurry. I just love life. And I feel like we ain't got but a certain amount of time anyway. I want to make the most of all of it.

  Dolly Parton

  Dream, Love Life, Feet

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

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• I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.

  Quentin Crisp

  Noise, Information, Minimum

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 27, 1968.

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• I'm often asked, Which is more important--attitude or skill? The answer is that it's somewhat like asking which leg of a three-legged stool is most important. It is my complete conviction, based on a considerable amount of research, that if you have the right attitude, combined with the right skills, and build your attitude and your skills on a solid character base, you can enjoy long-lasting success.

  Zig Ziglar

  Attitude, Character, Skills

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Vanity, People, Would Be

  Bertrand Russell (1969). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1872-1914”

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• I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man.

  Dorothy Day

  Reading, Men, Order

  "On Pilgrimage". "Catholic Worker", December 1968.

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• Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun. First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been on blind dates better than that.

  Molly Ivins

  Fun, Cancer, Firsts

  "Who Needs Breasts, Anyway?". content.time.com. February 18, 2002.

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• You can't judge the ability of a doctor by the amount of praise the undertakers give him.

  Evan Esar

  Doctors, Giving, Judging

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• Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.

  Al Gore

  Wind, Forever, Energy

  Al Gore (2009). “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis”, Rodale Books

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• There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes a certain amount of sensible bravery. It's no good to be brave and just keep crashing.

  Paul Newman

  Thinking, Car, Bravery

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• Restraining, saving, assuring your checkbook balance...what does all taht amount to? If I go broke one day I'll just take out loans

  Novala Takemoto

  Balance, One Day, Doe

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• I always imagine the world and myself above it and how minute one negative person's voice is in comparison to the amount of people that are in the world.

  Jessie J

  Voice, People, Negative

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

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• No amount of energy will take the place of thought.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Energy, Thoughts And Thinking

  Henry Van Dyke (2009). “Joy & Power: Three Messages with One Meaning”, p.51, The Floating Press

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• When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.

  Anton Chekhov

  Grace, Action, Persons

  Letter to Maxim Gorky, January 3, 1899.

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• Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.

  Ernest Bramah

  Fall, Too Late, Rewards

  Ernest Bramah (2016). “THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more”, p.126, e-artnow

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• If you are someone, you know, with fame, whatever amount, it's good to be married to someone who's not impressed with that at all.

  Ray Romano

  Married, Fame, Knows

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• According to a recent study of the brains of identical and fraternal twins, differences in the amount of gray matter in the frontal lobes are not only genetically influenced but are significantly correlated with differences in intelligence.

  Steven Pinker

  Gray Matter, Differences, Brain

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.73, Penguin

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• Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his art. He has the painting or sculpture before him. What we have tried to do is to provide a medium for "artistic expression" to anyone with only a reasonable amount of time. By giving him a camera system with which he need only control his selection of focus, composition and lighting, we free him to select the moment and to criticize immediately what he has done. We enable him to see what else he wants to do on the basis of what he has just learned.

  Edwin Land

  Photography, Art, Expression

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• It is paltry philosophy if in the old-fashioned way one lays down rules and principles in total disregard of moral values . As soon as these appear one regards them as exceptions, which gives them a certain scientific status, and thus makes them into rules. Or again one may appeal to genius , which is above all rules; which amounts to admitting that rules are not only made for idiots , but are idiotic in themselves.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Philosophy, Giving, Principles

  Carl von Clausewitz (1989). “On War”, p.184, Princeton University Press

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• The least amount of buttons [in suit], the better. If you have to go with three, you can go three. But all that eight-button stuff? Nuh-uh, not a fan.

  Chris Paul

  Eight, Buttons, Fans

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes.

  Paul Scheuring

  Narrative, Tropes, Audience

  "ZERO HOUR Executive Producers Paul Scheuring, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Zack Estrin and Dan McDermott Talk About the New ABC Drama". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

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• Something hurts, lean in. You just lean into that point until it loses its power over you. There's a certain amount of suffering that you have to be willing to sustain if you want to have a good life. And the real trick is to be able to sustain it with your heart open and still be loving.

  Will Smith

  Hurt, Good Life, Real

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

  Matt Ross

  Sound, Incredibles, I Can

  Source: collider.com

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• I have a limitless amount of great music at my disposal and it's very, very pleasurable because when the music goes on the film it's amazing how much it livens up the film and gives it an emotional kick in the pants, sort of.

  Woody Allen

  Emotional, Giving, Goes On

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• I can do a limited amount of things and that's what I do and I feel comfortable doing it and I have no particular desire to do anything else as an actor.

  Woody Allen

  Desire, Actors, Feels

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• I have the strong suspicion that when the brain's greed system is in operation, those parts of the brain that regulate ethical conduct are de-activated. Perhaps the greater the amount of money to be made, the greater the deactivation of the system that regulates ethical behaviour.

  Semir Zeki

  Strong, Greed, Brain

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