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• You know, I have a kid on my own, and I know how busy it is, the first weeks and the first month.

  Alessandra Ambrosio

  Kids, Months, Firsts

  "This Week's Model: Alessandra Ambrosio". Interview with Tommye Fitzpatrick, www.wmagazine.com. January 31, 2011.

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• I love kissing. If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because there’s no end to it. You can kiss forever. You can kiss yourself into oblivion. You can kiss all over the body. You can kiss yourself to sleep. And when you wake up, you can’t stop thinking about kissing. Dammit, I can’t get anything done because I’m so busy thinking about kissing. Kissing is madness! But it’s absolute paradise, if you can find a good kisser.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Sex, Sleep, Kissing

  "Sufjan Stevens, Robyn, Hot Chip, Blood Orange, Phosphorescent on Arthur Russell Tribute" by Evan Minsker, pitchfork.com. July 15, 2014.

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• It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of a child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country We are most of us too busy, too worried, too intent on proving ourselves right, too obsessed with ideas to stand and stare Very rarely are we able to free our minds of thoughts and emotions and just see for the simple pleasure of seeing. And so long as we fail to do this, so long will the essence of things be hidden from us.

  Bill Brandt

  Country, Jobs, Children

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• You are the driver of your mind, so take charge and keep it busy with your instructions by telling it where you want it to go. Your mind only takes off on its own if you are not telling it what to do.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Mind, Want

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• [On] 'Sufferer,' I'm talking about the younger generation that has no other option for success than to find a gun somewhere. I try to appeal to them: 'I know you a sufferer, but it doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't expect any better.' It's a lot different than from what I usually say, like, 'Get busy, shake that thing.'

  Sean Paul

  Mean, Gun, Talking

  "Sean Paul Hopes To Curb Youth Violence In Jamaica With Next Lp" by Jayson Rodriguez, www.mtv.com. Janaury 22, 2007.

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• Stop being so fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world.

  Mary Balogh

  Dream, Imagination, Soul

  Mary Balogh (2009). “Then Comes Seduction”, p.153, Dell

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• In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy white time. Brown was like the skinny or fat kids left over after the team captains chose sides. You take the rest — my cue to wander away to the sidelines, to wander away.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Team, Kids, White

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.13, Penguin

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• This is the United States of America and it's always a busy time.

  Jean Schmidt

  America, United States, States

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• The goal of the Transcendental Meditation technique is the state of enlightenment. This means we experience that inner calmness, that quiet state of least excitation, even when we are dynamically busy.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Mean, Goal, Meditation

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• I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road.

  Ted Kooser

  Plot, Littles, Farms

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• RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds and properly dispose our listeners to a pain they have never dreamed of. The context of what can be known establishes that love and indifference are forms of language, but the wise addition of punctuation allows us to believe that there are other harms - the dash gives the reader the clear signal they are coming.

  Ben Marcus

  Wise, Art, Pain

  Ben Marcus (2013). “The Age of Wire and String”, p.92, Granta Books

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• I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Years, Enjoy Life, Christmas Love

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• We Sioux spend a lot of time thinking about everyday things which in our minds are mixed up with the spiritual. We see in the world around us many symbols that teach us the meaning of life. We have a saying that the white man sees so little, he must see with only one eye. We see a lot that you no longer notice. You could notice if you wanted to, but you are usually too busy. We Indians live in a world of symbols and images where the spiritual and commonplace are one…We try to understand them not with the head but with the heart

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Spiritual, Heart, Eye

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• No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.

  James Russell Lowell

  Work, Blessed, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1876). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.52

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• Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.

  B. C. Forbes

  Work, Hands, Pumps

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• Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.

  Rachel Roy

  Girl, Home, Quality

  "Face Time | Rachel Roy". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. January 24, 2012.

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• You have to watch the clock constantly because youre only allowed out of your home for a limited period, and for a busy person, watching the clock and knowing other people are watching the clock is extremely difficult.

  Martha Stewart

  Home, Knowing, People

  "Home confinement tough for Martha Stewart". www.today.com. September 12, 2005.

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• We should be holy people eager to greet our Lord when He returns, ready at any moment for the trumpet's call, people of optimism, busy in evangelism, hands to the plow, eyes on the prize.

  David Jeremiah

  Eye, Hands, People

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• We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Peace, Should Have, Saying And Doing

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• Ministers are tempted to join the ranks of those who consider it their primary task to keep other people busy … But our task is the opposite of distraction … how to keep them from being so busy that they can no longer hear the voice of God who speaks in silence.

  Henri Nouwen

  Opposites, Voice, People

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.29, HarperCollins

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• Are you too busy for improvement? Frequently, I am rebuffed by people who say they are too busy and have no time for such activities. I make it a point to respond by telling people, look, you’ll stop being busy either when you die or when the company goes bankrupt.

  Shigeo Shingo

  People, Looks, Improvement

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• I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

  Leonora Carrington

  Artist, Muse, My Family

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• I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.

  Alan Shearer

  Football, Cartoon, Watches

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2010.

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• Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and good will, and wonders will happen in your life.

  Joseph Murphy

  Mind, Wonder, Harmony

  Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., D.D. (2011). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Unlock the Secrets Within”, p.17, Penguin

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• There aren’t enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now

  Berry Gordy

  People, Worry, Who Cares

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