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• There were so many Cuban-Americans upset that we were going to Cuba and I was curious to see why they were so angry, and anti-Castro. I found out as soon as we got there. The people were treated terrible. The conditions were terrible. I can see why people risk their lives and limbs to get out. (Fidel Castro) lives like a king and won't help anybody, and has everybody scared to death. Nobody lives a normal life. It was still a good experience, but I thought we should just play that one game.

  Albert Belle

  Kings, Games, Play

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• Every day is an opportunity to learn something or discover something or someplace. Be curious, play, go out on a limb, walk a different way to work, try a new food at dinner and keep learning and growing.

  Sandra Magsamen

  Opportunity, Play, Trying

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• Isn't it curious how completely ignorant we all are of the most important part of our bodily mechanism. It is really criminal. Yet there is no nation in the world that doesnt surround sex with fantastic walls. Of course ours are sillier than any-but not much.

  John Dos Passos

  Sex, Wall, Ignorant

  John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

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• The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have. The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity. They seem as solitary, and the letter in which they are printed as rare and curious, as ever.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Book, Character

  Henry David Thoreau (1939). “Walden: or, Life in the woods”

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• No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his
  neighbour's heart.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Heart, Men, Secret

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book II, 13,

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• From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people.

  Louis Adamic

  Religious, Nice, Ocean

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• Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.

  Isaac Newton

  Believe, Eye, Light

  David Brewster, Isaac Newton (1855). “Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton”, p.348

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• I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against another without charity or discretion. Some be too stiff in their old mumpsimus, others be too busy and curious in their new sumpsimus. Thus all men almost be in variety and discord.

  Henry VIII of England

  Men, Charity, Busy

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• I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

  Anne Sweeney

  Jobs, Ideas, People

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• I was curious as to why a million Americans weren't lining the beaches in boats and with buckets to preserve the life sustaining resource that is the Gulf of Mexico. Personally, as a surfer, I was most sorry for my fellow watermen. Seeing beaches closed due to contamination just broke my heart. If that ever happened in San Diego I'm afraid I might be forced to move.

  Jason Mraz

  Beach, Sorry, Moving

  "Jason Mraz Is Turning the Tide". Interview with Anna Griffin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2010.

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• I'm deeply curious about Jewish things. I've toyed around with the idea of going to rabbinical school.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  School, Ideas

  Interview with Joshua Wolf Shenk, www.motherjones.com. May 2005.

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• With people in corsets you need, an hour and a half in you have to give somebody something, you have to have those trays with a little bit of fruit going around or something because you get that blood sugar [dropping] thing, so it's curious because that's in your mind at the same time as you're about to say, 'I think it's about the humanity and the depth of feeling and we need to feel [Cinderella] soul expand and by the way, more cheese for the people in the back.'

  Kenneth Branagh

  Thinking, Blood, People

  "Kenneth Branagh Talks Updating ‘Cinderella’ and Working With Disney". Interview with Kara Warner, screenrant.com. March 12, 2015.

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• In pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you run around on the loose!

  Dalai Lama

  Running, People, Choices

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious.

  George Harrison

  Perfectly Normal, Would Be, Unusual

  Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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• Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Brain, Curiosity, Path

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Certain kinds of things that the novel used to do, which was, "Oh, I'm living out here in West Nowhere, Nebraska and I'm curious how the upper class in New York City lives, I guess I'll read a novel about it." We don't have to do that now. You just turn on the TV. Turn on Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous. You can get that information anywhere. Novels don't have to do that anymore.

  Jonathan Franzen

  New York, Class, Cities

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 1, 2010.

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• I'm a curious guy. I can't turn away from an investigative story, when it comes to the forensic analysis. I've done 33 dives, to the titanic wreck site. I've spent over 50 hours piloting robotic vehicles at that wreck trying to piece together what happened during the disaster. How the ship broke up, comparing the historical record with the forensic record. Documentaries are kind of my new life. I love documentary filmmaking.

  James Cameron

  Guy, Historical, Trying

  "Cameron: Jesus tomb film is a "detective story". Today Interview, www.today.com. February 27, 2007.

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• Seek to get more deeply involved in the business that you are in. If I had to distill it down into one word, you have to be curious as a professional.

  Stephen Gillett

  Involved, One Word, Ifs

  "Stephen Gillett's Rise From CIO Of Starbucks To COO Of Symantec". Interview with Peter High, www.forbes.com. July 15, 2013.

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• I often pose questions to myself and want the answers. The questions may be psychological or emotional. Or they may involve botany or [...] physiology. [...] I am very curious about strangers I observe - as in a bus line. I am very attached to finding out answers.

  Lydia Davis

  Emotional, Lines, May

  Interview with Sarah Manguso, www.believermag.com. January, 2008.

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• I am a person that is very curious about what is going on in the world and there are a lot of subjects to write about, you meet a lot of interesting people. But one idea will be there and it will show up without any logic. It is a book that has been written in my heart before it is written into sentences.

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Writing, Heart

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• It seems that the brain always has to be active, and if the auditory parts of the brain are not getting sufficient input, then they may start to create hallucinatory sounds on their own. Although it is curious that they do not usually create noises or voices; they create music.

  Oliver Sacks

  Voice, Brain, Sound

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I want to learn how to pick locks, swordfight, throw pottery - it's all research. It's like the curious person's version of James Bond's license to kill. I've got a license to learn.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Locks, Research, Pottery

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• Fantasy is a genre that allows me to create anything I want. That, in turn, allows me to explore any sort of idea I'm curious about. I love it because Fantasy is a genre that asks, "What if...?" That's my favorite question.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Ideas, What If, Want

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• I look for interesting titles that are curious and make people think. A lot of people are always so caught up in their lives. But if I make them smile through my titles or provoke them a little bit then maybe they will think about things and read the book and take something away from it.

  Robin Sharma

  Book, Thinking, People

  Source: www.gqindia.com

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• Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Spinning, Wheels

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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