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• I want to do different projects and be versatile. I don't want to get fixed into narrative comedy.

  Jason Gann

  Different, Want, Narrative

  Source: collider.com

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• They [political leaders ] thought the only problem was the banking system, and if they fixed the banking system, all would be fine. But the banking system and the mortgage problem were symptomatic of some deeper problems, and evidently they still haven't recognized those deeper problems.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Leader, Political, Would Be

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• The idea that somehow "no self, no problem"- I don't exist because I don't have a self- would be a mistaken understanding. However, the selflessness teaching is not that hard to understand. What it means is a type of self that people feel they have, like a fixed, unchanging identity. Either they know they have it, or for some, they feel they need to seek it, and possibly have an experience where they feel like they found something. That type of fixed, unchanging, essential self, or absolute self doesn't exist. That's what "no self" means.

  Robert Thurman

  Teaching, Mean, Self

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Character, Brain, Determined

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Consider the different narrative styles within the story, and the glee with which the "moralistic narrator" celebrates Aschenbach's fall - maybe, then, this is a hostile verdict and the international fame is warranted after all (given that Mann modeled his protagonist so closely on himself, it would be quite odd if he had intended Aschenbach's literary inferiority to be a fixed part of the interpretation).

  Philip Kitcher

  Fall, Style, Narrators

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Sometimes, however, the new synthetic complex proves stable, and even serves as the beginning of a much larger cluster of attitudes that displace some we've previously considered to be fixed parts of ourselves.

  Philip Kitcher

  Attitude, Sometimes, Synthetic

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There is indeed a level of improvisation where we can distort and shuffle the music patterns, samples, and loops in each phase of the show within fixed cue points, but at the same time there is a constant result that we are trying to achieve each night while performing and operating our system - quite similar in spirit to a broadway show for example: If you go see a musical two nights in a row, the performances are different yet similar.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Night, Two, Musical

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It used to be thought that you stopped making new neural connections in your youth and from then on your brain was fixed and it was downhill all the way. But in fact as we know from our own experience we can keep on learning and learning means changing our brain on a physical level.

  Philippa Perry

  Mean, Brain, Facts

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Our brains do not have to be fixed, they can be plastic.

  Philippa Perry

  Brain, Plastic

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people do, some people will constantly reconstruct their biography for external purposes, it's a very interesting political ploy.

  Antonio Damasio

  People, Interesting, Political

  Interviewwith David Hirschman, bigthink.com. August 10, 2010.

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• When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits are funny and which bits need to be fixed.

  John Cleese

  Needs, Comedy, Audience

  "Early On, Comedian John Cleese Says, He Had Good Timing But Little Else". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. October 16, 2015.

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• Sometimes a joke that doesn't work just needs a breath or a little word or the tiniest little change to be fixed.

  Sarah Silverman

  Needs, Littles, Sometimes

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The number of the hours in a day is fixed, but the quantity and quality of energy available to us is not. It is our most precious resource. The more we take responsibility for the energy we bring to the world, the more empowered and productive we become. The more we blame others or external circumstances, the more negative and compromised our energy is likely to be.

  Jim Loehr

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Power

  Jim Loehr, Dr. James E. Loehr, Tony Schwartz (2005). “The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ...Christians whose eyes are fixed on the awfulness of crucifixion are in a special position to understand the awfulness of innocent suffering. The Cross of Christ is God's absolute identification with the weak, the powerless, and the vulnerable, but most of all with unprotected, undefended, innocent suffering.

  Andrew Linzey

  Christian, Eye, Animal

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• For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are created through relationships and processes. They are not inherent in electrons or photons or quanta any more than they are inherent in soil or trees or people. So my critique of reductionistic science is a critique that I have inherited from my scientific training. But it has been deepened by my experiences as an ecologist, in seeing the ecological destruction taking place today.

  Vandana Shiva

  Ideas, People, Tree

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• A fixed habit is supported by old, well-worn pathways in the brain. When you make conscious choices to change a habit, you create new pathways. At the same time, you strengthen the decision-making function of the cerebral cortex while diminishing the grip of the lower, instinctual brain. So without judging your habit, whether it feels like a good one or a bad one, take time to break the routine, automatic response that habit imposes.

  Deepak Chopra

  Judging, Decision, Choices

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• Here are a few ways to face a habit and say "no" to it: Go outside your fixed routine; turn off the computer and the television; find a new outlet for your down time; talk to someone who holds a viewpoint contrary to yours and pay respectful attention, really listening.

  Deepak Chopra

  Listening, Pay, Way

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• I realized that in all the sectors of society where there's a huge gender disparity, the one place that can be fixed overnight is onscreen. You think about getting half of Congress, or the presidency ... It's going to take a while no matter how hard we work on it. But half of the board members and half of the CEOs can be women in the next movie somebody makes; it can be absolutely half.

  Geena Davis

  Thinking, Boards, Half

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• We're just at a point in regard to race relations, we're at a tipping point in America. It's a crucial time. It's sad, honestly, I think it's a place that deep down no one wants to be in. But it's something that needs to be addressed, it's something that needs to be fixed, and hopefully we can figure it out and take steps toward doing that.

  Andrew Hawkins

  Thinking, America, Race

  "'People Told Me to Shut Up and Play Football'". "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. July 18, 2016.

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• I don't think I'm saying anything wrong. And that's just how I judge it. I believe it's not so much about the people, that's just my take. I think making it about people is the wrong way to do it. I think it's the systems. The systems are broken; the systems are what need to be fixed. I think there's bad people in every sector of America.

  Andrew Hawkins

  Believe, Thinking, America

  "People Told Me to Shut Up and Play Football". Interview with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. July 18, 2016.

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• I see problems that can be fixed because I see solutions that are actually occurring.

  Paul Ryan

  Problem, Solutions

  "House Speaker Paul Ryan On Why He Wants To Customize Welfare Benefits". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. July 18, 2016.

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• All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mistake, Men, Trying

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• And Donald Trump is not going to give in to the special interests in this country, like the teachers' union, who say that substandard education in our urban areas can only be fixed by giving it more money and that that's all they're going to do about it and not change the underlying problems that we have on violence.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Teacher, Giving

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, August 28, 2016.

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• Where we're telling the story of the history of the ensemblist [in the "Ensemblist Essentials"], using the nine musicals that have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama as fixed points in time We're going from 1931 to 2016 and using these shows to talk about what the typical show was like for an ensemblist at the time; did this show change anything about that job, while it was changing everything about the way theatre was written and produced and made?

  Nikka Graff Lanzarone

  Jobs, Drama, Theatre

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Pray that no sleep may seize upon your eyes, nor slumber upon your eyelids until your thoughts have seriously, calmly, and unchangably fixed.

  Roger Williams

  Sleep, Eye, Slumber

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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