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• The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement

  Lucian Freud

  Artist, Starting, Should

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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• The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination.

  Peter Chernin

  Opportunity, America, Groups

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• The excitement level for me working on projects is really not a bit different from when I was 26.

  Amar Bose

  Different, Levels, Projects

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• Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team?

  Sepp Blatter

  Football, Team, Fans

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• The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Vitamins, Nutrition, Environment

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• I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

  Irvine Welsh

  Book, Going Out, Literature

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• We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Confused, Thoughtful, Voice

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1974). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

  George Sand

  Life, Intellectual, Flipping A Coin

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• That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

  Sylvia Plath

  July, Arrows, Rockets

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.44, Hamilton Books

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• The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

  Billy Graham

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

  Jonas Salk

  Morning, Sea, Psychics

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• The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.

  Bernard Ebbers

  Growth, Important, Engagement

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• Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert

  June Allyson

  Fun, Film, Wealth

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• The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.

  Martin Van Buren

  Government, Sober, Should

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• The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

  Ty Cobb

  Motivational, Baseball, Money

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• There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

  Charles Dickens

  Charity, Pleasure, Vocation

  Charles Dickens (1842). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.161

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• Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

  Joanna Newsom

  Ideas, Different, Delight

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

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• If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.

  Lewis Tappan

  People, Wicked, Wish

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• There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

  Sean Penn

  Theatre, Directors, Spending

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• There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

  Theodore White

  War, Usa, Presidential

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• And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Air, Would Be, Way

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• I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

  Hermann Hesse

  Second Chance, Doors, Bed

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• Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider.

  Buffalo Bill

  Years, Two, Ponies

  Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• Fear is excitement without the breath.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Fear, Breathing, Energy

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• Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame.

  Patrick Süskind

  Flames, Burning, Enthusiasm

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