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• I'm only a four-dimensional creature. Haven't got a clue how to visualise infinity. Even Einstein hadn't. I know because I asked him

  Carl Sagan

  Four, Infinity, Creatures

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• The education system should teach us about money; it's an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don't have the first clue of what they should do about money.

  Ben Stein

  Running, People, Firsts

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• Though tax records are generally looked upon as a nuisance, the day may come when historians will realize that tax records tell the real story behind civilized life. How people were taxed, who was taxed, and what was taxed tell more about a society than anything else. Tax habits could be to civilization what sex habits are to personality. They are basic clues to the way a society behaves.

  Charles Adams

  Sex, Real, Civilization

  Charles Adams (1993). “For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I hadn't a clue who I was racing against. All I knew was how I was going to race.

  Herb Elliott

  Race, Racing

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• But I'm taking small steps 'Cause I don't know where I'm going I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way!

  Louis Sachar

  Trying, Together, Small Steps

  Louis Sachar (2010). “Small Steps”, p.255, A&C Black

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• Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think?

  Alice Walker

  Laughter, Mistake, Dark

  Alice Walker (2011). “By the Light of My Father's Smile”, p.167, Hachette UK

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• The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Inspire, Plot

  "Moving Pictures". Book by Terry Pratchett, www.theguardian.com. 1990.

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• I sleep with a light on in the bathroom so I can see where I'm at, because I wake up and have no clue!

  Carrie Underwood

  Sleep, Light, Wake Up

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• I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about. It just happens. It's like falling in love. You can't explain why you fall in love or explain why it's this particular person.

  Elaine Stritch

  Falling In Love, Love You, Chemistry

  "Elaine Stritch Talks the 30 Rock Mother's Day Episode". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. May 6, 2010.

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• I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Feelings, Problem, Clear

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.80, Vintage

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• Facebook? I have no clue about it. MySpace, none of that. I'm the worst.

  Maggie Q

  Worst

  "Comic-Con: TV's 6 Most Wanted Women". Interview with Lacey Rose and Borys Kit, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 19, 2011.

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• When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

  Haniel Long

  Humanity, Loyal, Persons

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.

  Laura Linney

  Character, Writing, Cadence

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• Young people never do have a clue. There are some young people that do, but they've always been the exception. They always all grow up at some point. The problem is that they're all being indoctrinated by stupid leftists.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Growing Up, Stupid, People

  "We Live in More Than Two Americas". "The Rush Limbaugh show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 16, 2013.

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• I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, People, Needs

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• I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would change our whole concept of life on Earth.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Mars, Earth, Found

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• I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there's someone you don't hear from, it's the person you want to hear from the most.

  Janet Jackson

  Want, Sometimes, Persons

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• Who was the real Hitchcock? I interviewed him once and haven't a clue.

  Roger Ebert

  Real, Hitchcock, Havens

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• Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.

  Sandra Bullock

  Found, Forensics, Fascinating

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. April 17, 2002.

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• Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.

  Dan Brown

  Art, Powerful, Believe

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• I've seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Country, Zero, Mexican

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• Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

  Ayn Rand

  Business, Character, Men

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1447, Penguin

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• What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stars, Truth, Thinking

  Time Enough for Love (p. 264)

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• By now, we have learnt that game-changing ideas do not come from experts, they come from people who haven't got a clue and ask stupid questions.

  Chris Boardman

  Stupid, Games, Ideas

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• C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into which any random function may write random values without having a clue where they point, has not been debunked as the sheer idiocy it really is.

  Erik Naggum

  Meaningful, Memories, Writing

  Re: Allegro CL foreign function interface (Usenet article), groups.google.com. June 14, 2000.

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