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• I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons.

  Elle Varner

  Mom, Gymnastics, Class

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• The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.

  Laurie R. King

  War, Different, World

  "PW Talks with Laurie R. King". Interview with Robert C. Hahn, www.publishersweekly.com. February 18, 2002.

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• Following Simon's adventures is like being the pinball in an especially antic game, but it's well worth the wear and tear.

  Charlaine Harris

  Adventure, Games, Tears

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• Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Depth, Tests, Fellowship

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• The demands of following Christ will cost you everything. But you gain far more than you give up. You give up dirt for diamonds.

  Steve Lawson

  Giving Up, Following Christ, Dirt

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• Have you folks been following the controversy with John Kerry and his service in Vietnam and the Swift Boat campaign? It all took place in Vietnam and now it just won't go away. I was thinking about this - if John Kerry had just ducked the war like everybody else he wouldn't have this trouble.

  David Letterman

  War, Thinking, Going Away

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• Sometimes it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I could see this woman following me around and after a bit I stopped and said 'Hello' and she just looked at me and said: “PLEASE LET EDITH BE HAPPY!”

  Julian Fellowes

  Emotional, One Day, Noble

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• Don't talk yourself out of following your heart. Talk yourself into it.

  Alan Cohen

  Heart, Follow Your Heart

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• Open this notebook every day and write down half a page at the very least. If you have nothing to write down, then at least, following Gogol’s advice, write down that today there’s nothing to write. Always write with attention and look on writing as a holiday.

  Daniil Kharms

  Notebook, Writing, Holiday

  Daniil Kharms (2007). “Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms”, Overlook Press

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• This is the blessed life-not anxious to see far in front, nor eager to choose the path, but quietly following behind the Shepherd, one step at a time. The Shepherd was always out in front of the sheep. He was down in front. Any attack upon them had to take him into account. Now God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us.

  F.B. Meyer

  Blessed, Men, Sheep

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• General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Boys, Arrogance, Bad Boy

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• Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Religious, Arbitrary, Chance

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• One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it.

  Mark Twain

  Character, Years, Atheism

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• An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one. I can't help feeling that such a position, though logically sound, would have left one feeling pretty unsatisfied, and that although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Design, Waiting

  "The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design". Book by Richard Dawkins, September 28, 2015.

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• Our audience is young and vibrant; we retain our previous following; we are three generations into it. Unlike other bands that are very demographically specific, who they appeal to and who their fans are, we're the antithesis of that. If you see your younger brother or a parent of yours or a neighbor at most rock concerts, that's not cool but with us and kids, it's a tribal gathering. Whether it's kids or neighbors - they're all part of a secret society.

  Paul Stanley

  Brother, Kids, Rocks

  "Kiss: Miley Cyrus is 'being treated unfairly'". Interview with Daniel D'Addario, www.salon.com. September 12, 2013.

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• When Lucas was doing Star Wars, he didn't have a 50 million person Facebook following where he could just sift through feedback to try to get an idea for what he was going to do next. It's a luxury we have today.

  Vin Diesel

  Stars, War, Ideas

  "Vin Diesel Talks RIDDICK, Balancing His Producer and Actor Roles, Making Good on Promises, HANNIBAL THE CONQUEROR, Future of Cinema, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2013.

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• The thing with me is I'd rather have my cult following than just have a huge song. I haven't had one album or one official single release, but I probably got 500 songs out in people's collection.

  Richard Hilfiger

  Song, People, Albums

  Source: www.complex.com

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• In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Philosophical, School

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• On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Time, Wall, Revenge

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• We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Education, Children, Errors

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• It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.

  Honore de Balzac

  Years, Perfection, History

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• Example is better than following it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Example

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers.

  Dorothy Parker

  Sneakers, Missing, Horrible

  Dorothy Parker (1996). “The Uncollected Dorothy Parker”, Bloomsbury Academic

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• Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death--what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.

  Sophocles

  Hope, Men, Noble Man

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• Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and the five following, a good quantity of heterogeneous matter be inserted, to keep up that just balance betwixt wisdom and folly, without which a book would not hold together a single year.

  Laurence Sterne

  Funny, Book, Years

  Laurence Sterne (1834). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume”, p.258

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