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• I actually don't hang out with any celebrities. My closest friends are old friends. And my real close friends, none of them are actors.

  Denzel Washington

  Real, Old Friends, Actors

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• Molecular genetics can show off some surprising relationships like, for example, the close relationship of whales to hippopotamuses, which I think nobody ever guessed until molecular data was looked at. The closest relatives of whales are hippopotamuses, even closer than any other cloven-hoofed animals.

  Richard Dawkins

  Animal, Thinking, Whales

  Source: www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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• Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

  Hannah Arendt

  Art, Poetry, Language

  Hannah Arendt, Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb (2007). “Reflections on Literature and Culture”, p.174, Stanford University Press

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• If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.

  Dennis Crowley

  Business, Entrepreneur, Want

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• Any true musician, true artist, knows that when they're in that point of total artistic creation, whether on stage or in the studio or writing or whatever, that's the closest moment [to creation]. And that's what keeps all these people addicted to getting back to that moment again.

  Richard Ashcroft

  Writing, Artist, People

  Source: www.excellentonline.com

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• Sports teaches you very important lessons that are many and varied. It's probably the closest thing to the lessons we learned in fighting and warfare, about loyalty and growing up.

  Tinker Hatfield

  Sports, Loyalty, Growing Up

  Source: www.revelinnewyork.com

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• "And" seems to me closest. "And" nods toward the real. And "and" is the path to perspective. To feel and see from more angles and know all of them true, even the incomprehensible ones, even the ones that contradict one another.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Real, Perspective, Path

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com.

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• Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart. It strikes a delicate balance between working and idling, being and doing. It is a bodily labor that produces nothing but thoughts, experiences, arrivals.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Heart, Breathing, Balance

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.11, Penguin

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• I've never dated a fictional character before. The closest I ever came was an Italian.

  Woody Allen

  Character, Italian, Fictional Character

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• It doesn't necessarily matter if I'm onstage or not. I just find the communal experience of a rock concert, or any type of music performance, achieves a kind of transcendence that I associate with spirituality. It's the closest thing to what I think people expect church to be like. Or maybe just what I've always thought church should be. You lose yourself, and at the same time come to the realization or understanding that you're part of something bigger than yourself.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Thinking, Rocks, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• All my closest friends are the ones I made while in college or who knew me growing up. They keep me grounded, and I adore that about them.

  Alexander Wang

  Growing Up, College, Made

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The closest to Hepburn is Cate Blanchett.

  Robert Osborne

  Hepburn

  "Robert Osborne on Katharine Hepburn". Interview with Scott Holleran, scottholleran.com. May 12, 2007.

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• I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show.It's the most level commentary you can find.You have to laugh, because it's all so true.It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

  John Mayall

  Counter Culture, Laughing, News

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• All things in this creation exist within you and all things in you exist in creation; there is no border between you and the closest things, and there is no distance between you and the farthest things, and all things, from the lowest to the loftiest, from the smallest to the greatest, are within you as equal things.

  Khalil Gibran

  Distance, Borders, Creation

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• By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard to whom it is immediately obvious that their interests coincide with the interests of the state power. All modern finance, the whole of the banking business, is interwoven in the closest fashion with public credit.

  Karl Marx

  Fashion, Aristocracy, Banking

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.334, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The closest I came to doing anything that I wanted to do was to try and check and see what industries were just starting out. There was plastics and television, and I figured television had to be more fun than plastics.

  Chuck Barris

  Fun, Trying, Television

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 28, 2003.

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• The last time I went back to a girl's house for an impromptu house party I spent most of the night straightening out rugs, putting down coasters and alphabetising DVDs while all around me people got off with whoever was closest and gradually headed off to various rooms to make more mess, no doubt.

  Jon Richardson

  Girl, Party, Night

  Jon Richardson (2011). “It’s Not Me, It’s You!: Impossible perfectionist, 27, seeks very very very tidy woman”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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• I had to leave some traces. In the beginning, I would give complete instructions to the photographer. In the '70s, people would come to photograph your work and you would just end up with this crazy material that had nothing to do with your work; maybe I'd pick up two or three photographs that were the closest to the idea. This is why when you look at the '70s, you see much less documentation and really bad material. The material will become misleading to what the piece was.

  Marina Abramovic

  Crazy, Ideas, Two

  "Marina Abramovic Explains How HBO and Lady Gaga Bring Performance Art to a New Audience". SUNDANCE interview with Bryce J. Renninger, www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2012.

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• Unfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say - my partners in crime.

  William Eggleston

  Directors, Want, Crime

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• To me, theater is a spiritual experience. Probably the reason I do theater is it, I guess, comes the closest to feeling like God, or to feeling a spiritual experience that people can have together.

  Kate Arrington

  Spiritual, People, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When the soul knows the love of God by the Holy Spirit, then he clearly feels that the Lord is our own Father, the closest, dearest Father, the best. And there is not greater happiness that to love God with all the mind and heart, and our neighbor as ourself. And when this love is in the soul, then all things bring joy to the soul.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Cleanliness and sanitation were closest to Gandhiji's heart. We will launch a 'Clean India' campaign and by Gandhiji's 150th birth anniversary, all schools in the country should have toilets with separate toilets for girls.

  Narendra Modi

  Girl, Country, Heart

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• By prolonged and continued fellowship, the sheep who follow nearby enjoy the shepherd's presence and become his familiar companions. To those closest to him, he shares the choicest portions of the food he's gathered. These happy and content sheep are never in danger. Why? Because they are near the shepherd!

  Elizabeth George

  Christian, Inspiration, Sheep

  Elizabeth George (2009). “Quiet Confidence for a Woman's Heart: The Power of God's Restoration and Healing”, p.22, Harvest House Publishers

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• I don't want to convince you that mathematics is useful. It is, but utility is not the only criterion for value to humanity. Above all, I want to convince you that mathematics is beautiful, surprising, enjoyable, and interesting. In fact, mathematics is the closest that we humans get to true magic. How else to describe the patterns in our heads that - by some mysterious agency - capture patterns of the universe around us? Mathematics connects ideas that otherwise seem totally unrelated, revealing deep similarities that subsequently show up in nature.

  Ian Stewart

  Beautiful, Education, Math

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• America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends.

  John Olver

  War, Moral High Ground, America

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