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• The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

  Dalai Lama

  World, Way, Sides

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• There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

  Anne Lamott

  Sweet, Comeback, Loses

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• Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores.

  Anne Lamott

  Christian, Jesus, Bookstores

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• Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Brother, Book

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• I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.

  Anne Lamott

  Enthusiasm, Quiet, Christianity

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• I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

  Elmore Leonard

  Block, Believe, Inspiration

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• I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.

  Doris Lessing

  Writing, Thinking, Causes

  "Literature Nobel Awarded to Writer Doris Lessing". "All Things Considered" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. October 11, 2007.

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• Young people, those who think they're experts in science, there's no doubt. They just believe it, and so there has to be an explanation - and whatever man is doing has caused the jet stream to slow down, and that is permitting the polar vortex.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• I tore up my knee break dancing. I have no idea how that happened. Apparently these legs are meant for swimming, but not dancing. I was watching an MTV video, thinking, "I can do this." Definitely not. I heard a pop. I sat down and it blew up like a watermelon. I had to go to the hospital and get surgery.

  Ryan Lochte

  Swimming, Thinking, Mtv

  "Q&A with Golden Goggles winner Ryan Lochte". Interview with Brian Cazeneuve, www.si.com. November 23, 2010.

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• Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much.

  John Lydon

  Laughing, Oscars, Able

  "76 minutes with ... John Lydon". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'

  Peter Lynch

  Happiness, Reading, Investing

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• I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical comedy, I will do it. But whatever the joke needs at that particular time, is where I'm dedicated to. I'm not into beating somebody down and beating myself up. I don't do insults and things like that. I don't do it - I'm a storyteller.

  Bernie Mac

  Laughing, Flip, Needs

  Interview, www.ign.com. March 27, 2003.

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• Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Technology, Careers, Updates

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• It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

  Malcolm X

  Intelligent, Daddy, Doe

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.

  David Mamet

  Years, Degrees, Lasts

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• People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

  Ed Markey

  Oil, People, Pockets

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. May 4, 2005.

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• If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Life, Prayer

  Bob Marley (1982*). “Bob Marley & Other Sounds' Lyrics”

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• I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.

  Bruno Mars

  How You Feel, Hardest, Things To Do

  Interview with George Varga, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 9, 2011.

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• I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.

  Steve Martin

  Song, Book, Play

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• I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

  John Mayer

  Night, Settling, Late

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• Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

  Paul McCartney

  Funny, Money, Writing

  "Paul McCartney: One for the Road". Interview with David Fricke, www.rollingstone.com. February 08, 1990.

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• Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, Teenage, Thinking

  "Actress Danica McKellar Solves For 'X'". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. August 6, 2010.

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• He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.

  Herman Melville

  Hate, Heart, Race

  Moby Dick ch. 41 (1851)

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• If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.

  Rick Mercer

  Weekend, Nuts, Long

  "'Canadian Jon Stewart' Explains Thanksgiving". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 9, 2010.

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• If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.

  Liza Minnelli

  Mother, Hard Times, Talking

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