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• If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart. But you can be fun and fit and social and be really smart. And the smarter you are, the more capable you'll be to handle whatever challenges come up in life.

  Danica McKellar

  Beautiful, Fun, Smart

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• God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.

  Oswald Chambers

  Earthquakes, Stubbornness, Hard

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• I love religion. I could make up religions all day. I sort of think that in an ideal world I'd like to be a religion designer. I'd like people come up to me and say, I need a religion. I'd go talk to them for a while, and I'd design a religion for them. That would be a great job. There's a need for people like that. Fortunately, seeing that one can't actually do it, I get paid for sort of making them up anyway.

  Neil Gaiman

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• Catching fish is not a mental game between fish and angler. A 'smart' trout is only smarter than other trout, not smarter than a fisherman. An angler must take the puzzle of the day's conditions, and matching those conditions and his knowledge of the fish come up with a good catch. He competes with a concept, not with a fish's brain.

  Lee Wulff

  Smart, Sea, Fishing

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• I have been sought out by a number of people who would have felt uncomfortable coming to a large public meditation. They don't want people to come up and ask for autographs.

  Frederick Lenz

  Numbers, People, Meditation

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• An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.

  A. A. Gill

  Book, Next Week, Culture

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• I understand the feelings of critics asked to come up with the ten best films of any year, who say, Ten? Ten's a lot! - and those more generous spirits whose thumbs grow as long as Pinocchio's nose from overrating a lot of pictures, because they want the medium to do well, and because they'd like to feel good about it.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Generous Spirit, Years, Long

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• When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing.

  Patty Duke

  Kind, Imagine, Scene

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• If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would go for credit. Money is power. I have been arguing that credit should be accepted as a human right. If we can come up with a system which allows everybody access to credit while ensuring excellent repayment - I can give you a guarantee that poverty will not last long.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Guarantees That, Long, Giving

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• Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.

  Vicki Lawrence

  Comedy, Happened

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• I am who I am. Life is too beautiful to be sad, to be depressed. The sun comes up every day and it's beautiful.

  Ilya Bryzgalov

  Beautiful, Hockey, Who I Am

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• I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have truly seen the light, and the light is black. Nature is genius at its most cruel and savage. No benevolent God could have come up with such an outrage.

  Gary Numan

  Lying, Dark, Light

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• I was at a dinner party with a group of people, and we were talking about fake names. You know, how its difficult to come up with a really great fake name. Its a very specific type of gift. You don't want to go too far into the silly, and you don't want to go too far into the banal. I always thought one of the funniest names ever was Gern Blanston, which came from a Steve Martin routine on one of his early records.

  Paul Rudd

  Funny, Silly, Party

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• You have to understand how bad I wanted to be a comedian, how much I loved doing it. I still can't believe I get to do this for a living and have people come up and want to see me.

  Bill Burr

  Believe, People, Comedian

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn't just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.

  Boy George

  Gay, Who I Am, People

  "Boy George Talks Culture Club Reunion, Lady Gaga, Adam Lambert". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 23, 2011.

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• My work makes people understand things in a visual way that I could never understand in a literal way - like the way you deal with and break down problems, and don't come up with answers, but [find] a pathway that becomes clearer.

  Ali Banisadr

  People, Way, Answers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Honestly, I'm just consumed by the work. Everyday, I'm trying to come up with new stuff and do new things. I don't take time off. I'm always recording and working on my brand beyond just the music.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Everyday, Trying, Stuff

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• Nothing is a violent as football and I bet you like. Just say you don't like it, or can't identify, don't come up with excuses like "It's too violent" while you wear some team's NFL jersey.

  Michael Wilbon

  Football, Team, Nfl

  "The Chat House with Michael Wilbon: Michigan State, Tiger Woods, Great Sports Movies and More". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 6, 2009.

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• In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, "Yes, of course they have, they've thought of it!"

  Al Yankovic

  Ideas, Google, Trying

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• If I collaborate with people, ideas...they take interesting turns and twists, and I'm excited for that and that process and excited to see what we come up with.

  John Legend

  Ideas, People, Interesting

  "John Legend Has The Realest Advice For College Students". Interview with Deepa Lakshmin, www.mtv.com. March 21, 2015.

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• I made a point to not read too far ahead with the first six or seven episodes of any show. I would read the outlines, but I didn't really want to read scripts too far in advance because I didn't really want to get ahead of myself, at all. To be honest, I don't have the time to come up with theories.

  Simon Baker

  Want, Scripts, Firsts

  "Simon Baker and Bruno Heller Talk The Mentalist, Closing the Red John Chapter, Arriving at His Identity, and What the Resolution of This Case Means". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 24, 2016.

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• I love collaboration. I love working with people to come up with something better than what I initially thought. With directing, you have to be controlling in a lot of ways, but I find myself trying to battle against that, to not be controlling, because that's when great things can come about, beyond how great you think you can be.

  Joe Hahn

  Thinking, People, Battle

  "Octavia Spencer Talks RED BAND SOCIETY, Her Character’s Journey in Season 1, Favorite Scenes, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2014.

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• I think the key that differentiates the good actors from the mediocre ones that are still trying to come up, is that the good ones know how to listen. It's like being in a jazz band. They know how to listen to what the other musicians are playing. And where to come in and where to sit out. That's my approach to being in an ensemble cast and working with any kind of actors in a scene.

  Wesley Snipes

  Thinking, Keys, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis? Because that's the best analogy I can give." If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah it's the same rules but it's a different game every time you're out on that court.And that's the best analogy I can come up with the theater.

  Kevin Spacey

  Eight, Games, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• It's nice, when the lights come up at the end of the movie, to not be like, "What did I just watch?"

  Jon Hamm

  Nice, Light, Watches

  "Jon Hamm, JB Bernstein, and Rinku Singh Talk MILLION DOLLAR ARM, the PG Rating, Seeing Their Lives Become a Movie, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 12, 2014.

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