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• As I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K." - a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary words somehow stripped of all claptrap and set down in the city streets - I AM AN ANTICHRIST - Remain as powerful as anything I know. Listening to the record today - listening to the way Johnny Rotten tears at his lines, and then hurls the pieces at the world; recalling the all-consuming smile he produced as he sang - my back stiffens; I pull away even as my scalp begins to sweat.

  Greil Marcus

  Powerful, Writing, Earthquakes

  "Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century". Book by Greil Marcus, 1989.

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• Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.

  Merlin Mann

  People, Sms, Literacy

  Twitter post from Aug 17, 2008

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• Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to.

  Gordon Parks

  Legends, Impossible

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• Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

  Frederick Buechner

  Envy, Desire, Unsuccessful

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• Directing is a very all-consuming job. What you want to do there, as you're coming down the final road, is to just sit back and enjoy and let the wind flow through your hair. When you're directing, you're sitting there going, "I need to make this shot. How many hours do we have left in the day? How many hours behind are we?" You're just constantly worried about doing the job.

  David Shore

  Jobs, Hair, Wind

  Source: collider.com

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• The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wrath, Flames, People

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Section 2 (of 2) of Supplemental Volume: Theodore Roosevelt, Supplement”, p.18, tredition

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• The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose someone who doesn't even want the beastly thing.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hands, Desire, Purpose

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 16, 1968.

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• We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Play, Riches

  Izaak Walton (1853). “The Complete Angler ... Edited by James Rennie. With illustrations and a portrait”, p.234

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• A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Passion, Hobbies, Gains

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.175, Vintage

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• I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.

  May Sarton

  Solitude, Adore, Thirst

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• I just think we as consumers of information media must be very clear what it is we are consuming. Whether we are choosing to get our information by listening to people fight about it. Or whether we're choosing to get it by listening to the facts or watching the facts as they're laid out and then reaching our own conclusions. It's very different ways of info gathering, but it's not all journalism.

  Gwen Ifill

  Fighting, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I couldn't escape him, now or ever. He'd always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces I couldn't control, let alone escape.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Heart, Hands, Force

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.588, Simon and Schuster

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• Confusion has become a state of mind, more of less; we're trained to be confused. Quite simply, the people in power are keeping us down, keeping us docile and keeping us consuming with this confusion. It's a cultural confusion and it is deliberate.

  Yoko Ono

  Confused, People, Confusion

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

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• I feel like Twitter was tailor-made for me, because I can do short spurts all day long. I loved my blog, but doing daily, then thrice weekly entries was really time consuming. 140 characters is perfect.

  Sarah Dessen

  Character, Perfect, Long

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, www.wbez.org. January 13, 2012.

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• A large part of academic community is unthinkingly self-involved, producing reams of sterile writing - often consuming unbelievable amounts of public funds - and serving as an instruction manual for how to chase away readers and ignore historical insights.

  Gotz Aly

  Writing, Self, Community

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When you're actually making a film, it's just people on your back all the time wanting stuff and you're constantly having to it deal with them. It's probably the most time consuming of all the arts, but I do love it because it is a great mix of visual art and music and writing.

  Taika Waititi

  Art, Writing, People

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• We need to undergo a very radical revolution in values. And we need to think about what it's like to have become so materialistic that we think having a good job, and consuming like crazy to compensate for the dehumanization of the job, is living like a human being.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Jobs, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in
  themselves.

  Erich Fromm

  Running, People, Suggestions

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.119, A&C Black

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• They who pray with faith have fervour and fervour is the fire of prayer. This mysterious fire has the power of consuming all our faults and imperfections, and of giving to our actions, vitality, beauty and merit.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Prayer, Fire, Giving

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• Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.

  Nhat Hanh

  Regret, Anger, Thinking

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Transformation and Healing”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Although I feel directing is a lot more challenging, fulfilling and satisfying, it is also far more stressful & consuming. This is why I don't see myself directing one film after another in quick succession.

  Nandita Das

  Challenges, Film, Stressful

  Source: dfuse.in

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• I want to make something I would find joy in consuming. Personally, I enjoy those projects that are worth me investing time and energy and thought into, to find a work that has more to say than will fit in a 4 minute song.

  Crowder

  Song, Joy, Energy

  "David Crowder, Neon Steeple". Interview with Nate Fancher, www.natefancher.com. August 22, 2014.

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• News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.

  Evan Williams

  Ideas, People, Would Be

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• I always get everyone prepared so there aren't so many arguments on set. I have a policy that the first thing I do in the morning is go over to the trailers and discuss exactly what we're shooting that day. It's time-consuming but it reduces the chances of 'misunderstandings' on set.

  Tony Scott

  Morning, Shooting, Firsts

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• At the World Cup, there is a constant risk that you might find a bag or some object that has been left behind, and no one is quite sure what it is. To bring in a full bomb-disposal team for each item can be very time-consuming. The PackBot can go over rough terrain, climb stairs, pick things up, and also be operated from a safe distance.

  Colin Angle

  Distance, Team, Risk

  "My Roomba's Name Is Roswell". Interview with Celeste Biever, www.slate.com. March 23, 2014.

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