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• I want to bring excitement back to the heavyweight division.

  Deontay Wilder

  Heavyweights, Division, Want

  "Deontay Wilder decisions Stiverne" by Dan Rafael, abcnews.go.com. January 18, 2015.

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• I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

  Gertrude Stein

  Class, People, Serenity

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “Three Lives”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• Even when I'm singing on record there's a lot of times when I'll fight for a bit of imperfection. I might not have quite hit the note to the perfect pitch, but there was a soul in there and feeling that,to me, delivers the emotion of that moment. For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not going to be perfect - that's the thrill of it.

  Alicia Keys

  Fighting, Perfect, Feelings

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long.

  Tom Baker

  Children, Hero, Play

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• Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program.

  Felicity Jones

  Archer, Joy, Fans

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• Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.

  Alastair Humphreys

  Ambition, Half, Tiptoes

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• . . when the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process.

  Howard Snell

  Habit, Process, Needed

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• I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of the big screen, which is great.

  Joe Dante

  Mean, Advantage, Explosions

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• But all should know that the people's participation in the elections will take the country forward ... an election full of excitement will be a major blow to the enemy.

  Ali Khamenei

  Country, Blow, Iran

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• I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.

  William O. Douglas

  Nature, Adventure, Journey

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• One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Respect, Thinking, People

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• But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Power, Games, Would Be

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• The only difference between 'fear' and 'excitement' is what we label it.

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Differences, Labels

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• The only difference between fear and excitement is what we label it. The two are pretty much the same physiological/emotional reaction. With fear, we put a negative spin on it: "Oh no!" With excitement, we give it some positive english: "Oh, boy!"

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Boys, Emotional

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit the excitement we once felt about, well... everything. A generation later, our grandkids bump up our enthusiasm yet again. Reproducing is a kind of booster shot to keep us loving life.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Loving Life, People

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• Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  New Experiences, Expectations, Personality

  Doris Kearns Goodwin (2009). “Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

  Amanda Palmer

  People, Needs, World

  "Ukelele Techno Sucks: Interview With Amanda Palmer". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. September 30, 2008.

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• The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Passion, Heart, Satisfaction

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.147, Lulu.com

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• Anytime I was in Memphis with my dad and at the house, I was happy. That was, like, a given. It was what I lived for. And I still feel the same excitement and warmth.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Dad, House, Memphis

  "A New Life, Album for Lisa Marie Presley". www.elle.com. April 25, 2012.

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• The World Cup in 2010 is going to be the most inspirational thing ever to hit the streets in South Africa. For the first time, the World Cup won't just be something that is happening on the other side of the world think about the excitement-the biggest players, from all over the world, will be playing football in a stadium just round the corner from home.

  Benni McCarthy

  Football, Home, Player

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• There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.

  Dan Reynolds

  Song, Trying, Audience

  "Exclusive: Imagine Dragons Tour Interview". Interview with Brandon Kim, www.ifc.com.

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• When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

  Marvin Minsky

  Vision, Mit, Computer

  "HAL's Legacy: 2001's Computer As Dream and Reality". Book by David G. Stork, 1997.

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• The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits.

  Cesar Pelli

  Rivers, Ambitious, Limits

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• A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Book, Reading, Past

  Charles Horton Cooley (2017). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.308, Routledge

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• I have decided to make a personal message to David Haye. I want him to fight me, to be a man. I wish there will be enough excitement, pressure and courage for David Haye to fight me.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Fighting, Men, Wish

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