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• The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.

  Larry King

  Secret, Journalist, Absolutes

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• The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

  Richard Powers

  Information, Mainstream, Should

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• The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

  Daniel Bell

  Philosopher, Moments, Impulse

  Daniel Bell (1965). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas”

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• It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.

  John Byrne

  Culture, Tabloids

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• I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.

  Robert Morgan

  Writing, Way, Can Do

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• If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.

  Graham Greene

  Long, Ifs, Cease

  Graham Greene (1992). “The Quiet American”

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• Curiosity in children ... is but an appetite after knowledge and therefore ought to be encouraged in them, not only as a good sign, but as the great instrument nature has provided to remove that ignorance they were born with and which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull and useless creatures.

  John Locke

  Children, Ignorance, Useless

  John Locke (2007). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: (Including Of the Conduct of the Understanding)”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd.

  John Locke

  Children, Cherish, Should

  John Locke (1725). “Some Thoughts concerning Education ... The eighth edition”, p.148

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• I'm trying to dismantle a stereotype that in order to live any kind of creative life, you have to be in torment and suffering. We're addicted to this idea because it makes for good bio pics... but I actually think it's better to live a life where you're constantly exploring your curiosity and creativity.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Creativity, Thinking, Order

  "Author Elizabeth Gilbert's 'Big Magic' is a creative life". "CBS This Morning" with Norah O'Donnell, Gayle King and John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. September 22, 2015.

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• I think both science and art are impelled by curiosity: What's really happening? How do things really function? How can I really engage with the world around me? These are questions that artists and scientists both ask.

  Amy Hardie

  Art, Thinking, World

  "Filmmaker Interview". "POV", www.pbs.org. August 24, 2010.

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• The most important thing is actually raising up children with a true and lasting burning sense of curiosity. I don't even know how they do it. Good parents are a marvel.

  Ezra Miller

  Children, Parent, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have insane curiosity as to what happened in all these events. I will never know. I'm not a researcher. I don't possess that kind of mind. I have a researcher who compiles the fact sheets and chronologies that allow me to write these big books of mine.

  James Ellroy

  Book, Writing, Mind

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you this secret human infrastructure. The only way I sate my own curiosity is to create this from scratch. There must be commanding love stories. There must be great moral cost.

  James Ellroy

  Writing, Air, Data

  Interview by Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.

  Claude Lelouch

  People, Sometimes, Minutes

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• If people are not safe, they will not make themselves vulnerable. If they feel too comfortable, they can become complacent or lose their curiosity. They can become intellectually lazy about what matters most.

  Erica Brown

  What Matters, People, Lazy

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.

  Pamela Anderson

  Animal, People, Human Nature

  Interview with Savi Kuruppu, cargocollective.com.

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• My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.

  Alan Alda

  Ignorance, Long, Together

  Interview with Claudia Gryvatz Copquin, www.saturdayeveningpost.com. May/June 2013.

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• I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I'd seen in the Library of Congress.

  David McCullough

  Kindness, Writing, Library

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show; Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire.

  Winston Churchill

  Moving, Hands, Secret

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• You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

  Mark Twain

  Past, Years, Numbers

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4122, Delphi Classics

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• Only a small part of scientific progress has resulted from planned search for specific objectives. A much more important part has been made possible by the freedom of the individual to follow his own curiosity.

  Irving Langmuir

  Progress, Important, Individual

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• ...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'

  Mark Twain

  Angel, Sarcasm, Men

  Mark Twain, Paul Baender (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.405, Univ of California Press

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• And I say to you that if you bring curiosity to your work it will cease to be merely a job and become a door through which you enter the best that life has to give you.

  Robertson Davies

  Jobs, Doors, Giving

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• You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Want, Hunger, Lacking

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• To me, curiosity is married to optimism. And that's where a lot of my motivation comes from. A lot of my way out of depression and anxiety is that intersection between optimism and curiosity. Because it means taking a step forward with the hope that there will be discovery.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Motivation, Mean, Discovery

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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