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• If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recording because I believe that something being officially released on a studio record gives it a certain authority that it doesn't quite have if it comes out on a live album or is just a part of your show, you know.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Song, Believe, Giving

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• Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.

  Zadie Smith

  Army, Epic, Rapper

  "The House That Hova Built". www.nytimes.com. September 6, 2012.

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• What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Pain, Meditation, Helping

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Dec 07, 2016

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• I pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11. So that was when I was taken out of the school system... I think the longest stretch I would go back for was a term and a half when I was about 14.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Taken, School, Half

  "From Child Actor To Artist: Radcliffe Reflects On Post-Potter Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 10, 2013.

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• Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.

  Mario Cuomo

  Religious, Government, People

  New York (State). Governor (1983- : Cuomo), Mario Matthew Cuomo (1989). “Public Papers of Governor Mario M. Cuomo, 1984”

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• In the U.S., coaches could be the father next door. They had no formal training. They're like old hockey players. They don't go to school and study.

  Gabe Polsky

  Father, School, Hockey

  Source: collider.com

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• I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.

  Dennis Quaid

  Teacher, Drama, Littles

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• I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that I don't take a break for many hours - and consequently have breakfast at two or three in the afternoon on good days.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Morning, Writing, Good Day

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.

  Norman McLaren

  Art, Should Have, Unity

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• I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right.

  Ricky Martin

  Steady, Felt, I Can

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• No father, no son, no mother, no daughter should get so busy that he or she does not have time to study the scriptures and the words of modern prophets. None of us should get so busy that we crowd out contemplation and praying. None of us should become so busy in our formal Church assignments that there is no room left for quiet Christian service to our neighbors.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Christian, Mother, Daughter

  Spencer W. Kimball (1981). “Priesthood”, Shadow Mountain

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• You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance.

  Jeff Bridges

  Inspirational, Dance, Ballet

  "Jeff Bridges Abides". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November, 2011.

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• Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Community, Leader, Kingdoms

  "The iPod and the Queen, the Kindle and the King" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2009.

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• I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.

  John Henrik Clarke

  School, Firsts, Wells

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• I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.

  David Rockefeller

  Country, Children, Order

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our family room, where we live, is about togetherness and ease. Nothing in my house is too formal. There are no coasters on tables; the kids can eat Popsicles on the couch if they want to. I let them ride these little cycles we got for them when they were 3 that have rubber wheels and no pedals.

  Cindy Crawford

  Kids, House, Ease

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• Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

  Barney Frank

  Responsibility, Working Together, Hierarchy

  Interview with Jason Zengerle, nymag.com. April 15, 2012.

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• I liked that the work itself was something other than simply what you saw It meant you could have an art work which was that idea of an art work, and its formal components weren't important.

  Joseph Kosuth

  Art, Ideas, Important

  Clare Farrow, Joseph Kosuth (1994). “A Reinhardt, J Kosuth, F Gonzales-Torres - Symptoms of Interference - Art & Design Profile 34(Paper Only)”, John Wiley & Sons

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• We seem to know that international wars tend not to stop with their formal "peace treaties." We seem not to have thought enough about the difference between the large official events of political and military history and their overflow both into recognized effects and into the lives of unofficial people who suffer them.

  Wendell Berry

  War, Military, Differences

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Growing up on Mad Men with so many incredible actors and then going on to other things with amazing people, I never had any formal acting training, but they are all acting schools, basically. Just watching and learning from the best is insane. It's like having an internship and watching all these amazing people doing their work. You just soak it up like a sponge, hopefully.

  Kiernan Shipka

  Growing Up, School, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is such a thing as genius, and these are people who do not have a formal disability, DSM-IV-type. They may have liberal eccentricities or quirks in their personality, but they don't rise to the level of a disability.

  Darold Treffert

  People, Personality, Genius

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.

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• I think that there are many things in the New Testament that show us that the godliness of our conversation plays an important evangelistic role. The apostles are clear that we mustn't limit the explicit sharing of the gospel to formal preaching. It can also happen in ordinary conversations.

  Mark Dever

  Thinking, Play, Important

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• What's the purpose of NATO? Well actually we have an official answer. It isn't publicized much, but a couple of years ago, the secretary-general of NATO made a formal statement explaining the purpose of NATO in the post-Cold War world is to control global energy systems, pipelines, and sea lanes. That means it's a global system and of course he didn't say it, it's an intervention force under US command, as we've seen in case after case. So that's NATO.

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, War, Mean

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Every day I'd say I look different. Sometimes I look really formal, sometimes I love the classic Stella McCartney, Chloe Sevigny and Gwyneth Paltrow thing. Other days I like being rock star and wearing leather jackets and studs. I love wearing Burberry - it's the perfect combination of formal and punky.

  Ellie Goulding

  Stars, Rocks, Leather Jackets

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

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• The formal stuff feels old and windy. Not to say you shouldn't know prosody. But it's a wonderful time for exploratory poetics. Contemporary poets are inventing all kinds of wild, complex shapes for poetry, as we see. It's a wonderful time, less ego-centered.

  Anne Waldman

  Ego, Shapes, Stuff

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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